Spend a day immersed in the colours of the Cornish landscape from the comfort of home. The light and landscape of this Atlantic coast has inspired generations of artists; the small harbour of St Ives and surrounding landscape helped to shape the direction of 20th century art. We’ll use a wide range of watercolour and drawing techniques to paint the dramatic shapes, colours and textures of the dramatic coastline as well as the fishing harbours, landscapes and wildlife. We’ll take inspiration from the Cornish artists, using their stories and our own imagination to bring our paintings to life.

The course is suitable for all levels of experience; you can paint along with Claudia’s demos and exercises or just sit back, sketch, make notes and jot down ideas and then revisit the recordings in your own time. There will be an intensive two hour session morning and afternoon with a break in the middle of day to work on your own paintings and grab some lunch!

The workshop will be recorded so you will be able to watch the video online afterwards.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• A laptop, Macbook, PC, Ipad or tablet

Claudia works in watercolour but you are welcome to use whatever medium you feel comfortable with.  You will need plenty of cheap cartridge paper or sketch books, pencils and sketching pens, a small drawing board or firm backed watercolour pad. You may well want to produce more finished paintings away from the computer screen, but it will be useful to have a way of drawing and sketching, or at least making notes whilst being able to see your computer screen! Plus the usual water jars, kitchen towel, palettes, your usual art materials.

If you work in watercolours, these are the materials Claudia uses:

Windsor and Newton artists’ watercolours:

• Blues: cobalt, ultramarine, cerulean, indigo, winsor blue
• Reds: alizarin, cadmium red, burnt sienna
• Yellows: raw sienna, aureolin, cadmium yellow, naples yellow

Cartridge paper sketchbooks and Saunders Waterford watercolour paper

Rowney Aquafine watercolour brushes – selection of sizes

Waterproof sketching pens and a selection of pencils, crayons, erasers

If you have any questions about materials, do get in touch.