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.  Lyn can provide all the paint and 2 sheet of caddi paper for those who require for £6. See below

10am – 4.00pm
£82 Lunch included
Material Charges : n/a

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

Friday 7th March 2025

 Typically this course runs with around 10-12 students.

What to Bring:  

Please see the suggested materials list below

As Inks are expensive Lyn will have sets for sale containing all the inks and a sheet of Kahdi paper for £6 – (bring correct cash please)

There will be extra sheets of Khadi paper for sale £1 each. You will still need to bring the other items  from the list below, but it saves buying whole tubes of paint if you are unsure whether they will be used again. The caddi paper is specialist and quite expensive.

Full Materials List

Daler Rowney Acrylic Inks: Sepia,  Paynes Grey, Opaque White

Khadi Paper

Cartridge paper (over A4 size )

Watercolours

2 brushes, thick and thin

Thin twigs & sticks from the garden.

Large water containers. (Margarine tubs. Ice cream tubs etc. You’ll need lots of clean water)

Apron to protect you.

Newspaper to protect table. (provided by venue)

Kitchen Roll (provided by venue)

 OPTIONAL

A Dagger & a Rigger brush.

Everything is available from www.jacksonsart.com

 The venue will supply kitchen roll, jam jars for water, and newspaper to protect the tables.

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.