Current news and class information for Southgate Watercolour Art Group
The watercolour group meet usually meet at the Southgate Community Centre each Thursday morning to paint and exchange pleasantries. They're a friendly bunch.
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The classes for the term starting 21st September are going to be based on the following (or that's the plan at the start of the term):
Week 1: Autumn still life
Week 2: Individual autumn still life studies using flat brushes
Week 3: Flowers, berries and leaves using large brushes
Week 4: Studies of large leaves on large paper, adding drawings, using inks etc.
Week 5: Square formats - subject of your choice
Week 6: Square format - Black and white, strong contrasts
Week 7: Layers and shapes and subtle abstracts. Look back at your old paintings or pictures upside down as a starting point
Week 8, 9 and 10: Choose a favourite theme to work on for the last 3 weeks, a portrait, photo, object or anything that inspires you. Prepare an interesting background in advance for week 8. Cutouts and colour and more will be the aim for weeks 9 and 10.
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There's no class 26th October as it's half term.
Using square paper, we will be encouraged to consider the affect the shape has on the composition of our paintings. 
Keeping it loose, using big brushes and large format paper, we're painting leaves. Just leaves. But to make things really interesting, we're introducing mixed media.