Compose, Paint, Create Part 2
Intermediate - Advanced Level | Suitable for ages 14+
Self-paced learning | Unlimited Lifetime Access
Professionally filmed in HD | Comprehensive E-Book Included
Are you a budding artist wanting to take the next step? Join me, Natalie Martin, a professional watercolour artist as I guide you through how to bring artworks together on your own and start to develop your own artistic voice. I am encouraging, gentle and human and nothing brings me more joy than watching my students grow.
Compose, Paint, Create Part 2 is the follow up course to Compose, Paint, Create Part 1. We’ve already begun to understand the importance of this underrated, fascinating and fundamental bank of knowledge, it’s time to make it official. This course will solidify your understanding of how to create compelling compositions using watercolour botanicals.
We pick up where we leave off in Part 1 and explore the further five Principles of Art; Contrast, Movement, Rhythm, Pattern and Repetition - rounding out our understanding of these powerful tools. Each has a creative project wrapped around it so we can put the theory straight into practice.
Before we wrap up, we learn how to analyse our compositions ourselves! Analysis is an incredibly important part of your creative process and progression as an artist. It’s what is going to help bring everything all together and get the 10 Principles of Art humming in your work. Understanding how to analyse artwork is not only going to have an impact on your own work, but the way you interpret artwork everywhere - from a gallery to the street art at the end of your block.
We top things off with how and when to break the rules. We’ve just spent a few hours learning all the rules, and yep! - there are times and places where breaking the rules really works. It’s an interesting fun thing to play with and can be the secret sauce that takes your work to the next level.
Through my research I found that most courses on composition were either overly simplified or too heavy on the theory therefore difficult to engage with. I created this course so we can not only comprehensively cover composition but also have a little fun with it. I also provide you the information, tools and reference material to put it all straight into practice!
Once again we use botanicals as our guiding theme, something to gel it all together. I have a whole different bunch of flowers and foliage to inspire you and create some beautiful compositions. Let’s paint our way to understanding composition! Grab your paint brushes, let’s get started.
What to expect:
10 videos shot in High Definition with an overall run time of 3 hours and 45 minutes. The beauty of a self paced online course is that you can work at your own pace, in your own space with the flexibility to pause and practice before proceeding onto the next stages.Outcomes:
- A comprehensive understanding of composition
- A solid understanding of watercolour materials
- How to apply the Principles of Art
- How to analyse your compositions
- Tools to help you resolve unfinished artworks
- Understanding the rules of composition to then break them
- The confidence to create resolved paintings on your own
- A series of botanical inspired paintings
Downloadable files included:
- Materials List
- Course E-Book
- 5 Principles of Art Quick Guides
- Photos for painting inspiration
- Printable assets for course work
- Analysing Your Composition Questions PD
- Reference sheets of Natalie's course work
Your Instructor
Natalie Martin is an artist based on the Surf Coast, Victoria. She likes to get her hands dirty and bring a little joy (and colour!) to the every day.
Natalie works in vibrant watercolour. She’s particularly fond of native Australian flora and the landscape it’s found. She’s drawn to blooms in season and that seasonal swing throughout the year provides a beautiful rhythm and constant flow of inspiration. She feels a deep connection to being outdoors and observing and learning from nature. With her studio based on the Surf Coast in Victoria, there’s an endless source of inspiration within reach.
Natalie fell in love with watercolour early on and over the years she has exhibited her work, produced a collection of limited edition prints, developed a line of environmentally friendly stationery, experimented with printing on fabrics and also begun teaching workshops in person as well as online.
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