Dynamic Floral and Landscape Abstracts in Ink and Watercolour - capture your favourite flowers and fells! 

An exciting course from Lyn Evans combining these two favourite mediums.  Bring along your own favourite reference photos of your favourite flowers, fells and dramatic landscapes and Lyn will show you how to create very loose and flowing paintings using two or three Acrylic inks and a few watercolours.

You will learn by adding water to ink marks, seeing it flow then adding more colour and watching while the magic happens.

An opportunity to let go with colour and line and produce some beautiful pictures and learn new techniques at the same time. Please bring your own materials - see below

Everyone brings acrylic inks, watercolours and paper.

10am – 4.00pm
£85 Lunch included
Material Charges : n/a

Dates for this course - see the table below to book:

Sunday 1st September

 Typically this course runs with around 10-12 students.

Please bring:  Something to protect your clothes as inks may stain. Also please bring :   Drawing paper larger than A4,  Box of watercolours,  Daler Rowney Acrylic Inks Paynes Grey, Sepia and White,  2 brushes, 1 thick and 1 thin,  Selection of thin sticks from the garden no thicker than 10mm wide.  Everything can be bought online.

Optional….  Large water container (jamjars supplied by venue .. but a large empty ice cream tub works well too) , Dagger brush & Rigger, Kahdi Paper (Lyn may have some of this for sale for £1 per sheeet)

 The venue will supply kitchen roll and jam jars for water.

About the Artist    I have painted throughout most of my life, from my years at Sunderland Art College to the present day,  I’m inspired mostly by the more unusual colours of nature. The early morning or late evening light, particularly during the Autumn months, is a favourite. I paint in oil, pastel and watercolours, each one bringing a different quality to the work.  So often it is the subject that will dictate the medium used.  Pastel is unsurpassed for colour and texture while oils excel in quality and the ability to move or blend.

Watercolour, with its more delicate character, is ideal for the beautiful misty days that we have in plenty in Cumbria.I paint everything and anything but landscape is my first love.So the countryside in which I live and the quality of light enjoy are present in all my work. My influences are Chien Chung Wei, the Taiwanese watercolourist, Iain Stewart, the Scottish watercolourist  (both of whom I have painted with) and  Casey Klahn the American pastelist.