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Workshop Title
Fur & Feathers with Feeling, Drawing & Painting Animals in Watercolour
Level
  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
Medium
Watercolour
Subject / Focus
Animals, Dogs, Horses, Wild Animals, Birds
Class Description
Bring in your photo references from a variety of sources. You will be shown how to focus on the important aspects you need to enhance the emotion you felt when you found the photo. Keep the photo simple without too much background. Different animals display their emotions in various ways. Learn how to render these amazing subjects well, as you experiment with different techniques. Fur and feathers react differently to watercolour than they do to pencil, or acrylic. This workshop is broken up into 4 sessions, each 3 hours long.

Note: This class is geared to intermediate and advanced. Beginners are welcome, however a basic understanding of watercolour is needed. Everyone will progress and be challenged according to their own level.
About the Artist
Dorothy Wintle is a fine artist having had many years of experience working as a painter, capturing the essence of some of nature’s best landscapes. She worked in Canada and the States studying and producing portraiture of animals and people. With over 10 years of formal training, not to mention the many years of working as an artist, she is offering art classes both in person and online. Her home is now in Barrie, Ontario. She has many years of experience as an art instructor. Some of the institutions she taught at are:
The Toronto District Board of Education for 7 years
Lol Art, 2 years
Framing Dames, in Toronto as an instructor and facilitator of children’s summer art camps and weekly art classes for all ages
Toronto Zoo Watercolour workshop
Senior art classes with Toronto Parks and Recreation
Private classes
Private Online classes
Instructor website
wintlestudios.com
Instructor phone
647-378-5606
Instructor Email
wintlestudios@gmail.com
 

Supplies Students Should Bring:

Paint / art media
Watercolour paints:
Dorothy prefers Windsor Newton but she is now using Daniel Smith as well. They are compatible.
The artist’s quality ones are recommended and are worth it. (Note: Eventually you will have
to replace the student grade ones if you pursue watercolour as a
medium.)

- Cadmium Yellow
- Lemon Yellow
- Alizarin Crimson
- Cadmium Red
- Ultramarine Blue
- Cobalt Blue
- Cerulean Blue
- Payne’s Grey
- Yellow Ochre
- Raw Umber
- Sepia
- Burnt Sienna
- Sap Green
- Black
- White (Permanent White Gouache)
Art Surface / Support
- Watercolour block pads, Arches 10 x 14.
- Try to get hot press 11x14 or close to it. (2 or 3 separate sheets of hot press, 140 lb watercolour paper will do instead of a pad, optional.)
- Curry's has a Fluid watercolour pad 12x16 for 25.99, 15 sheets, 140 lb.
- The heavier the paper, the better.
- Micheal's has Strathmore watercolour, series 400 pads for 12 sheets at 24.99. It is only cold press.
- Dorothy likes Arches the best. Hot press 300 lb. She buys it by the sheet. Hard to get.
- Low tack masking tape or watercolour tape, for separate sheets of paper
- Support board if you are using separate sheets of paper, a little larger than the paper, to tape paper to)
Supplies and Tools
BRUSHES:
- Rounds: 0, 4 or 5, 8, 10, 12
- Flats: 1/2", 1".
Synthetics are great. When you are ready for amazing brushes try Kolinsky Sables. Very expensive though.

- Palette for paints: plastic, even a pie pan works, or better still is a Rubbermaid container with lid or Sta-Wet Super Pro Palette (Curry's)
- Pencil set or 2B & 4B pencils
- coloured pencils: Derwent or Prisma colour / brown, green, dark blue, light blue, yellow, ochre, red, orange
- Erasers (kneaded, white & rubber cement erasers)
- Spray bottle with fine mist
- Kleenex
- 11x14 Tracing paper or the size of your image.
- Low tack masking tape or watercolour tape, for separate sheets of paper
- Support board if you are using separate sheets of paper, a little larger than the paper, to tape paper to)
- Bulldog clips (2)
- Old toothbrush
- 2 Water containers
- Masking fluid
- Salt
- Exacto Knife
- Ruler
- Palette knife
Reference materials
- Bring in your photo references from a variety of sources.
- You will be shown how to focus on the important aspects you need to enhance the emotion you felt when you found the photo.
- Keep the photo simple without too much background.
- Different animals display their emotions in various ways.
Misc
- Cell phone to take pics of the different stages.
 

Materials Instructor Will Bring:

Materials the instructor will provide
- Some reference photos to borrow.
- Samples of different paper to
inspect.
Items made available for purchase
- Limited amount of paper.
- Watercolour tape
 

Workshop Outline: Complete: All-4 Class Series, 1 only-Single Session, 1 & 2 - Saturday OR Full Day

Session 1
Session 1:
- Drawing the subject and transferring it to the watercolour paper.
- Some drawing tips will be given.
Session 2
Session 2:
- Will go over various techniques and some colour theory.
Session 3
Session 3:
- Draw it again and start with the background and fill in the light areas, keeping contrast in mind.
Session 4
Session 4:
- Finishing the painting using the techniques applied earlier.
 

Office Use - Workshop Booking

Year of booking
2022
Month of booking
11
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