Portrait in a Day in Watercolours with Catherine Macdiarmid

Develop some different watercolour techniques that can be used for portraits. Photographs and photocopies will be used as source material for the portraits eliminating a lot of the time usually taken to draw out before painting.

Catherine MacDiarmid has exhibited widely including the Mall Galleries and was a semi-finalist in the Sky Portrait Artists of the Year 2019. Catherine has 28 years experience teaching art courses.

Please bring with you: A3 watercolour paper x 3. These should be rough or NOT in texture and at least 140IB/300gms. They can be loose, stretched on separate boards or in a block pad. Pencils HB and 4,6 or 8B. Tracing paper or trace down. A4 photocopy of a face/head that you want to paint. Make this fill the A4 surface. Have the photo in a colour form as well either a photograph or digital image. Watercolour paints. A range of soft watercolour brushes (make sure one is large No 12 round or flat or similar. Water spray bottle. Paper towels. We have a Design shop at Rheged in case you are missing any materials.

10am-4pm, 68 pp Max number of 14 people | Minimum age 16 Please note tickets are non-refundable. Exchanges to other classes by the same tutor may be offered more than 2 weeks before the start date (subject to availability).