Watercolor Painting at Home: Australian Plants and Birds

Online Classes

•

Art

•

Painting

•

Watercolor Painting

•

Kid Friendly

Watercolor Painting at Home: Australian Plants and Birds

Learn how to paint beautiful Australian native plants and birds with watercolors in this online course.

Ladybird Design Creative

3k followers

ClassBento donates with every booking to

4 x 2.5 hours

5 to 25 $89

Online Classes

•

Art

•

Painting

•

Watercolor Painting

•

Kid Friendly

What you'll do

Come learn how to paint with watercolors and channel your inner nature lover with this fun online painting course!

Guided by friendly and experienced teacher Fran, based in The Blue Mountains, Australia, you'll learn all the techniques behind basic watercolor painting and brushwork, eventually learning to create gradients and washes with watercolor over four sessions.

Each week you'll work on a range of exercises to prepare you for painting a new piece, from bottle brushes and waratahs to king parrots and cockatoos!

Bottlebrush: The name derives from the plant’s flowers, which look like brushes for cleaning bottles.
Waratah: One of the best-known Australian native plants. Eora Aboriginal people, the pre-European inhabitants of the Sydney area called the plant 'warada' meaning 'beautiful'.
King Parrot: Named in honor of Governor Philip Gidley King (Governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1800-1806).
Galah: Rose-breasted cockatoo, best known by its native aboriginal Australian name 'galah'.

This online painting course is a great place to explore watercolor art, no matter your skill level. Anyone can learn how to paint with watercolors, and this class caters to both beginners and those with some painting and illustration experience.

This unique watercolor series of classes is also a lovely way to connect with other like-minded creatives with a glass of wine or tea in one hand and a paintbrush in the other!

Please note: Public dates for this class require at least 3 guests to run. In the unlikely event that we don't reach this number, we'll cancel the class; in this case we'll inform you and allow you to get a refund or reschedule, so please watch your email/SMS one day prior to the class.

Knowledge required

This class is perfect for beginners - no prior experience is needed.

What to bring

A4 sheets x 10 of smooth textured 180gsm or higher grade (sometimes called g/m2) watercolor paper (you can purchase this at any art supplies store or some office suppliers).
Watercolor paints: green, white, yellow, orange, red, brown, black. Suggest 'cake/pan' style instead of tubes. You can often buy them in a 'set' with a range of colors. (Please message if you would like brand suggestions, for this workshop high quality paints are not necessary.)
Brushes: no.6 round tip (medium tip brush) and no.0 or no.1 round tip (fine tip brush for detail).
A pencil and eraser.
Two cups or glasses half filled with water to wash your brushes. (Recommend access to water, in case you need to change it during the class or have a jug of water clean water and container for dirty water.)
Paper towel (a few sheets) and cotton buds.
Hairdryer (optional).
Apron or old top to protect clothes.

Session repeats

This class series runs over 4 consecutive sessions, at the same time every 2 weeks.

Suitable for

Suitable for adults, and kids (minimum 14 years old).

Adult accompaniment is not required.

Your teacher

Ladybird Design Creative

3k followers

Fran is an artist; an educator, neither overshadows, they simply entwine and enrich one another.

At a young age Fran discovered the value of creating art in her daily life. The act of art helped Fran express her identity. The process of developing an idea, especially with jewellery, seeing that idea come to completion by Fran's own hand filled her with satisfaction and accomplishment. Fran began to see how creating art helped other aspects of my life and learning.

Fran is inspired by nature, patterns, form and texture. Each created piece portrays a slice of life, a perspective of the world in which we all live. Her mediums span painting and jewellery to collage and stitching. They all bring joy, though not everything turns out how she envisaged.

In particular Fran sees the unique design and individually handcrafted nature of bespoke jewellery as an ornamental way of extending personal self-expression. During the creative process, she is mindful that someone will be wearing the piece and it will come alive only when it finds its owner.

Fran is most comfortable in the studio classroom teaching art than in any other place or endeavour. It fills her soul to help others learn by exposing them to tools, materials and techniques of Fran's trade and then develop their skills and confidence in the creative medium.

Through support, conversation and laughter, I set a welcoming scene of free expression.

Ladybird Design Creative Studio, located in Blue Mountains, Australia, is the culmination of creating a life around Fran's passions of art, jewellery and teaching. Fran believes now more than ever that pursuing one’s passions makes life more colourful and vibrant, gives us pleasure and purpose, but most of all it reminds us of who we are.

Fran would love to share the joy of creating and making with you.