Courses

Step-by-Step classes
 
When life was so rudely interrupted by a virus, I developed a series of online classes in landscape watercolour. I've continued to expand the range since those days, and now have over 60 classes prepared. Each will allow you to create a separate painting from a subject provided through a detailed step-by-step description. I'll be on hand (via email) to give advise on the work in progress, and for feedback on the finished piece. The classes cover all the basic techniques of traditional watercolour, with excursions into the more inventive or expressive realms if desired and the possibility of refining the course from the range according to student needs. They should be suitable for watercolourists of all abilities.
 
I am currently offering groups of ten lessons for £100.
For a step-by-step taster demonstration, by the artist, of wet on wet and salt technique, click on the image below.
 
 
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me here.
 
 
Edinburgh Drawing School
 
Two weekly studio courses are offered
 
 - Studio based: Expressive Watercolour Landscapes runs for ten weeks: 
                        From Thursday 22 September to 01 December 2022- 10am to 12:30pm
 
                        Expressive Fluid Acrylic Landscapes runs for ten weeks:
                        From Friday 23 September to 02 December 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm
                            
 
 - Online:         Watercolour Landscapes:
                       Runs for ten weeks from Wednesday 21September to 30 November at 6:30pm
 
 

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

 
Explore the techniques, and expressive joys of landscape watercolour painting. This ten-week course will use artist demonstration and individual guidance to help each student to a more confident handling of this fascinating medium. Lessons will cover techniques in the studio, but where conditions are suitable the students will have the chance to work outside in the Garden.
You can find details in the Education Brochure page 23.
 
Weekly courses
All classes were suspended at the start of the pandemic; they may resume in 2022.
 
 
Edinburgh Academy
 
Starting with the basic elements of watercolour panting, colour mixing, wash techniques, texture, brushwork and so on, the course will move on to explore ways to achieve more dramatic effects through such techniques as spatter, wax resist and collage so as to realise the expressive potential of this most versatile of mediums.
 
Weekly course:
All the Give-It-A-Go classes were suspended at the start of the pandemic; they may resume in 2022.
 
 
National Galleries of Scotland
 
There are no classes currently scheduled.