Christmas Cards with Watercolour (Workshop)
Course Overview
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Creating your own hand crafted bespoke cards for Christmas or other occasions, is a gratifying and meaningful experience and very special for your recipients.
In this 4 hour workshop, learn the art, craft, composition, design and watercolour techniques necessary to create your own image-based personal Christmas cards. After demonstrations, Nettie will guide each participant to achieve a series of imaginative and individual results.
Please note: The watercolour cards and envelopes will be provided.
Materials
- Inexpensive set of watercolour
- Nos: 2 and 4 pointed watercolour brushes
- HB pencil and rubber
- A4 sketch book
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About the tutor
Nettie Lodge
Nettie Lodge is an Australian artist. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University, WA, and a Post Graduate in Painting from The Banff Centre of Fine Art, Canada. She exhibits regularly in Sydney, where she has had numerous solo shows since 1995. Her recent solo exhibition was a conceptual interpretation of the poem THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum. This involved over 40 works on paper and a narrative installation of a ghost ship.
For the past 20 years, she has been writing and illustrating children’s books, for which she won a CBCA Notable Book Award for her picture book BIRD.
Her most recent picture books have been TELL TAILS, which she wrote and illustrated, published by Green, Olive Press in 2021 and THE WORLD’S GREATEST TACKLE, which she illustrated, written by Bruce Walker and published by Wooddslane Press in 2023.
She works as a freelance illustrator from her studio on Scotland Island where she lives and lectures part time at Torrens University.
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