Ginny’ Whittle intends to run a Watercolour Painting Class at Hummersknott Academy subject to enrolment, details as above. Booking is required, it’s aimed at beginners and improvers and costs £150 for ten weeks. Participants will need to bring their own materials and equipment. Please contact Ginny to check the course if running before purchasing any of these items:
- Watercolour paint – tubes if possible or pans
- Brushes either sable or synthetic
- A pallete – this could be a plastic plate or lid
- Watercolour pot e.g. jam jar
- MDF board to tape watercolour paper if using sheets
- Watercolour paper or pad. ” Not ” surface like Bockingford
Ginny has run watercolour classes since the 1990’s, including leading courses at The Bridge Centre for Visual Arts in Darlington. She is Fine Art trained with a Post Graduate Teachers qualification, and has exhibited her work in the North East and in London. She advises the course offers a ‘rewarding, creative, environment, which will stretch your ideas of ” art ” developing specific watercolour techniques, through a series of flower and landscape paintings, alongside looking at both historic and contemporary watercolour painters for inspiration’.
Ginny is also offering a ten week evening Watercolour Painting Class, with sessions running from 4.30pm – 6.30pm at Hutton Magna Village Hall, Dale House, Hutton Magna, Richmond, DL11 7HH, running from Tuesday 16th April to Tuesday 25th June (no class on Tuesday 15th May 2024) priced £100 for ten sessions,
Booking for these courses is required and those interested are advised to check with Ginny whether these courses will run before purchasing any equipment you may need to participate. To find out more please contact Ginny at whittleginny@yahoo.co.uk
