Fluid Fauna: Butterflies and Moths with Claire Wilson
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Saturday, July 18, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
Mother Nature continues to be one of our best muses! Butterflies have been a popular motif historically in art and design, perhaps for their fleeting beauty and fragility, and watercolour is the perfect medium to explore their iridescent wings. In this session we’ll be studying butterflies & moths and observing their wide range of patterns and textures - their symmetry allows for repetition and practicing techniques. Wet on wet is one of my favourite techniques and lends itself to moving pigments around to illustrate their kaleidoscopic hues.
Join Zoom 15 minutes early for an informal meet and greet with the instructor and class participants! Class will begin promptly at 5 minutes past the hour, so everyone has plenty of time to create!
SUGGESTED MATERIALS:
These guidelines are here to help you gather supplies from home—feel free to use alternate options you love or have on hand!
- Watercolour paints - some warms, cools, neutrals like a grey or ochre, or brown, and maybe a neon if you have one!
- Titanium white watercolour or white gouache
- Mixing Palette
- Pencil - I prefer to use a 2H/3H
- Brushes - size 3-5 round medium and 0-2 fine liners for smaller details
- 2 x Cups of Water
- Paper Towel
- Watercolor paper - I’ll be using my fave 140lb Arches cold press 7 x 9 watercolour paper block but any 140lb/300gms watercolour paper will work
- Spare sheet of paper to swatch colours
- *optional - washi or artists tape
- Fauna reference - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GAQvkxEUWeM5IDdYqz-Aj9_nV7Gk3EAB?usp=share_link
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR
Claire Wilson-Oghedo is a fine artist, creative educator, and textile designer living in Brooklyn, NY. Through her work she explores the beauty of the female form, interior spaces & fashion while considering the use of colour, shape and textures. Having spent her career creating fabric designs in the fashion industry, colour palettes are the foundation of her practice.
smudgestudiobk.com / @smudge_studiobk
THINGS TO KNOW
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