The south-west corner of Wales is a feast for the landscape artist. Pembrokeshire is blessed with with dramatic coastline, deep water estuary, sandy coves, offshore islands inhabited by puffins and gannets, and the UK’s only coastal National Park. The tiny city of St David’s was – and still is – a place of pilgrimage, with a cathedral, ruined priory, clifftop chapel and holy well. It’s a place of legends, castles, tales of invaders and a history that reflects both its Welsh and English past. In this virtual sketching holiday we’ll look at some of the artists inspired by Pembrokeshire. We’ll use a wide variety of techniques to create our own sketches and capture some of the magic of the human and natural landscape.

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.