What a fun workshop this was, where we could really let our heads go! Ros gave us notes and a short demo to give us a guide to the beginning to our backgrounds, which we were to paint in layers. We then squeezed 4 colours onto our palette, one of which was to be one we don’t normally use. We had 2 surfaces to work on and started with one colour of our colours, just making abstract brush strokes, or marks, on our first surface. We then continued to paint, randomly, using the other colours. While that surface was drying, we did something similar on our 2nd surface.
Following our delicious morning tea, supplied by Catherine and Narelle, Ros demonstrated the next stages of our paintings, which was to take a selection of warm colours and paint, still randomly, firstly on our 1st canvas then we did the same with the 2nd surface. This was followed, one surface at time, with a selection of cool colours, all the while allowing the original colours to peep through. These were the backgrounds for our flowers, which we began to paint after lunch and the surfaces had had time to dry.
Ros kindly lent us all fake flowers, to use for inspiration,as well as white soluble pastels, to draw our flowers onto the background. If we wanted to paint purely from our imagination, that was fine too. You could hear a pin drop, as everyone concentrated on their flowers. We were to use yellow, red and blue as the basis and we learnt about creating a ‘Mother’ colour, a small dot of which was added to each colour as we painted our flowers. This creates more harmony between the colours.
Some of us were able to finish painting flowers on both our surfaces,which were quite different to each other. It was such a fun day and we all really enjoyed just playing with the colours and painting so freely. By the end of the day, we were all rather tired by very happy with the work we produced.
$60 - Members; & $80 - Non-Members