• A Unique Brush Technique: How to use wide, flat brushes to create bold, expressive strokes and capture the essence of a subject.

• Simple Colour Mixing: How to mix a range of skin tones, shadows, and hair colours from a limited and manageable palette.

• Correcting with Confidence: Techniques for lifting wet and dry paint to correct mistakes, reclaim highlights, and adjust your painting.

• The Artist's Mindset: How to relax, observe your subject, and develop a confident rhythm between looking and painting.

• Portrait Fundamentals: An approach to understanding the planes of the face and placing features to achieve a likeness.

• Paper & Palette

  • Watercolour Paper: Áine specifically recommends Bockingford paper because it allows for easy lifting and correction of paint.

  • Watercolour Palette: A palette with large wells, specifically one that can accommodate a 2-inch brush for easy paint lifting and mixing.

  • Test Paper: A separate piece of paper (same type as the main sheet) for testing colour consistency and behaviour on a vertical surface.

• Brushes

  • Primary Brushes (Rosemary & Co. Series S 222 - "Áine Divine Set"):

    • 2-inch flat brush

    • 1.5-inch flat brush

    • 1-inch flat brush

  • Lifting/Craft Brushes (Royal & Langnickel):

    • Springy, cheaper craft brushes (1-inch and 3/4-inch are mentioned) used for lifting out colour and correcting edges.

  • Small Detail Brush:

    • A quarter-inch brush for fine details like the iris and eyelashes.

• Paints (Artist's Watercolour Tubes)

  Áine uses a limited palette, mixing colours to create a wide range of skin tones, hair colours, and shadows.

  • Van Dyke Brown

  • Ultramarine Blue

  • Burnt Sienna

  • Cadmium Red

  • Sap Green

  • Alizarin Crimson

  • Viridian Green

  • Cerulean Blue

  • Cadmium Orange

  • Lemon Yellow

• Water & Miscellaneous

  • Water Container: For rinsing brushes.

  • Kitchen Paper / Paper Towels: Essential for leaching water out of brushes, testing colour, and lifting wet paint.

Suitable for all levels - good understanding of the basic use of watercolour would be an advantage.

The course is composed of two videos, a combined total of 65 mins. Enjoy the benefit of being able to watch and follow along at your leisure for the duration of your access.