PLEASE BOOK AND PAY BY 20 MARCH 2026

9:30am to 4:00pm

Morning Tea Included - BYO MUG

Oksana Stevens is a self-taught oil landscape painter originally from Belgium, now based on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, where she moved in 2024 with her family. She has been practising her art seriously since 2017 and previously studied at the Mechelen Art Academy in Belgium, where she developed strong academic foundations in drawing, figure work and portraiture.

Oksana’s greatest passion is plein air landscape painting. Working directly from life, she seeks to capture the immediacy of a moment and translate the vibration, light and energy of the landscape onto the canvas. She is deeply inspired by the way a fleeting impression, once painted, continues to resonate with life and atmosphere. Her work is best described as realistic impressionism, focused on capturing mood,light and colour harmony rather than strict detail. All of her studio work is informed by time spent painting outdoors and by the sketches and studies created on location.

In this workshop,participants will explore how to create a strong sense of light, atmosphere and depth in landscape painting. Working from reference, you will learn how to translate what you observe into vibrant colour harmonies that evoke a sense of place. The workshop will focus on understanding how light moves from light into shadow and on mixing all colours from the three primaries, building confidence in colour mixing and developing paintings where colours truly sing together.

Materials List

Surface: -  not  too big to be able to finish it during the workshop

·     Stretched  canvas or canvas on board or gessoboard– 20cm x 30cm or 30cm x 40cm

Brushes:

·    Long Flat or  Filbert Bristle Brushes – various sizes

·    Long Flat or  Filbert Synthetic Brushes – various sizes

Colours: - if purchasing  new paint,  don’t  get something too expensive. Better to be affordable in order to be freely  using paint.  It is important to use  and mix lots of different colours and puddles.

·     Alizarin  Crimson

·     Cadmium  Yellow light

·     Ultramarine  Blue

·     Titanium  White

Misc:

·     Palette  knife for mixing colours

·     Mineral  odourless solvent

·     Some  Linseed oil

·     Rags  or Paper Towels

·     Easel  or Table Easel

·     Gloves  (optional)

·     Palette:  paper palette or wooden palette or plastic/acrylic palette (medium tone not white)

THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL - WAIT LIST AVAILABLE

9:30am to 4:00pm

Morning Tea Included - BYO MUG

Rehann Vazid is a Melbourne-based watercolour artist and instructor known for his bold, light-filled landscapes and his immediate, expressive approach to the medium.  At the heart of his philosophy is a belief that painting is an act of memory-making, a counterbalance to an age where technology increasingly replaces our ability to see and think.Through his work, Rehann invites us back into presence, perception and the joy of experiencing the world directly.

After a 15-year career in product and user experience design, Rehann made a deliberate transition into full-time painting.  Along the way, he adopted several personal principles that profoundly shape his artistic life: he does not do competitions, awards or exhibitions. He has no social media presence, as he believes that public performance and digital visibility often dilute an artist’s ability to discover who they truly are.

In both his art and his teaching, immediacy is central.  Rehann paints wet-into-wet, typically completing a work within 20–30 minutes while the paper is still wet.  He teaches only in person, rejecting online classes and recorded tutorials in favour of real, embodied learning—where attention, intuition and physical engagement shape the outcome.  He regularly leads workshops and multi-day retreats across Australia and internationally. His teaching focuses on developing intuitive skills, painting fearlessly, building confidence and understanding how to create luminosity and movement in watercolour.

This workshop guides participants into the nuances of glow, that magical sense of light emerging from within a painting.  Through structured demos and exercises, artists will explore colour theory, blending,edge control and the restraint needed to not overwork and let your watercolour shine.  You will learn the use of the white of the paper for luminosity, transparent laying for radiant effects and creating glowing skies and light transitions. Some experience with watercolour is recommended, but adventurous beginners are welcome.  By the end of the day you should leave the workshop with a deeper control of watercolour’s transparent potential, a stronger sensitivity to light, edges and value and one glowing final painting, as well as supporting technique studies.

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Paper:

·    Baohong or  Arches 300gsm (rough or cold press).

NB:   Full sheets can be cut down to half or quarter sheets based on how  large you want to paint.  Rehann will  be painting on a half sheet.

Brushes: NB. Bring the brushes you normally paint with.  If calligraphy brushes work for you, bring  them.

·    Medium squirrel  mop (size 8–16) is great for most of the work

·    A few synthetic  round brushes (sizes 8, 12, 16)

·    Optional  extras: hake, dagger brush, rigger for finer details

Miscellaneous:

·    Mixing palette  (plastic or ceramic)

·    Water Container

·    Towel or sponge  

·    Masking tape or  clips

·    Spray bottle

·    Pencil

·    Reference  Photos or iPad, iPhone or tablet with reference photos

·     Tissues

Paints:  NB.  If you already have paints, bring what you’ve got.  Artist-quality tubes are  best, preferably Winsor & Newton and Daniel Smith.

·     Colours:

¨      Yellow Ochre

¨      Burnt Sienna

¨      Cadmium red

¨      Permanent Rose  or Alizarin crimson

¨      Sap green

¨      Cobalt blue

¨      Cerulean blue

¨      Ultramarine  blue

¨      Prussian blue

¨      Payne’s grey  (or ivory black instead, we’ll mix it ourselves)

¨      White Gouache

¨      Neutral Tint

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