Watercolour for Beginners: Fruit & Vegetables with Emilie

Come and enjoy the wonderful world of watercolour paintings! Watercolour is an easy yet expressive painting skill to pick up, and this beginners class will teach you skills and techniques to create your own piece of watercolour art.

In this class, Emilie will share with you her warm up exercises and tips for experimenting with colour and shapes to create a beautiful images of fruit and vegetables.

You’ll learn some basics of drawing and painting with watercolour from observation. Even if you haven’t held a paintbrush since primary school, you can join in and reconnect with the pleasure of drawing and painting.

What will we cover?

• Focus on using watercolour and illustration skills
• Cover drawing and composition
• Teach the basic of watercolour paints through a playful approach
• Help you achieve a watercolour illustration of fruit and vegetables!

What will I need?

• Watercolour set (or any water based paint)
• Paper (ideally watercolour paper 300GSM, but any thick paper will do)
• Water and brushes
• Pencils, eraser, paper towel, any drawing material you have
• Fruit & vegetables (optional)

Accessibility

• Wheelchair Accessible Venue
• All Gender Bathrooms
• Early Bird Cheap Tix
• Free Tix for First Nation Attendees

Who will be teaching?

Emilie (she/her) is an artist and educator based between Melbourne and Marseille (Fr), working across media with a focus on community-based practice and education. She graduated from her PhD in Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2020 and has been an art resident at Testing Grounds (2020), Making Space (2021) and the Comic Art Workshop (2021).

Emilie has exhibited her works at FortyFive Downstairs gallery, the Abbotsford convent, No Vacancy Gallery, Arcade and George Patton Gallery.

In 2021, Emilie opened Couleur in Collingwood, a printmaking studio focusing on DIY, hand-prints, and experimental printmaking. Since 2023, Couleur Studio has relocated in South of France. Emilie is also a comic book artist and her illustration has been published by the Lifted Brow and she self-published her first graphic novel in 2018 with Tree Paper Comics in Melbourne. In 2023 she ran Glow Comics Trails festival with Laneway Learning, celebrating Melbourne's booming comics scene.

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Images: Far left and far right photos by Saundarya Srinivasan on Unsplash; centre Teacher's Own Art

Questions about the class or other ways we can assist with accessibility? Just email Maddy (she/her) at  melbourne@lanewaylearning.com.