Mindful Intuitive Watercolours

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Join local Watercolour & Acrylic Artist, Helen Worthington for an experimental watercolour workshop. Since 2005, Helen has concentrated on producing spectacular artworks in a variety of media - acrylics, watercolour, line and wash, pastels, mixed media and, more recently, oil paints. Constantly renewing her interest in different forms of painting and subject matter has always been a driving force for her art projects to date. Helen describes herself as a ‘self-learning’ artist and is delighted to share her knowledge through workshops with you here at the studio. Open to anyone who wants to relax with watercolours and spend time focussing on creating intuitive artwork. There will be a short meditation at the start of the session, to encourage relaxation and create an atmosphere where we can be mindful and aware of the flow of creative energy during the class. In the chaos of daily life, it’s often difficult to find space – both physically and mentally – to allow the experience of exploring creative energy to happen. There’s always something else to do! This workshop will use a very simple mark-making exercise to start with, which will demonstrate how it’s possible to tap into a combination of ‘logical’ and ‘creative’ sides of the brain while we work creatively. A structured session using templates and watercolours to relax the mind and enjoy intuitive shape making and colour application will follow, applying the simple principles of line and wash watercolour techniques. To finish, there will be a lovely exercise to use watercolours in a loose and flowing fashion, and then find the interesting parts within the painting, with the use of a simple framing technique, and embellishing with pens and marks to add interest. All materials are included in the session, but please bring your own thimble if you like to use one when hand-stitching.