Watercolours for Beginners: Xmas Cards with Emilie
Event description
Come and enjoy the wonderful world of watercolour paintings!
This beginners class will teach you skills and techniques to create your own piece of Xmassy watercolour art - to keep or to gift.
You will experiment with colour and shapes to create a beautiful image for your homemade Xmas cards this festive season.
We welcome absolute beginners!
What will we cover?
This beginner’s painting class will:
- Focus on using watercolour and illustration skills
- Cover drawing and composition
- Teach the basic of watercolour paints through a playful approach
- Help you achieve an Xmas watercolour illustration!
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible Venue
- Gender Neutral Bathrooms
- Early Bird Cheaper Tickets
- Quiet Spaces
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.
Important info:
Other questions or accessibility requests? Just shoot an email to Maddy (she/her) at melbourne@lanewaylearning.com.
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