Watercolour for Beginners: Colourful Cats with Emilie

Come and enjoy the wonderful world of watercolour paintings! This beginners class will teach you skills and techniques to create your own piece of watercolour art. You will experiment with colour and shapes to create a beautiful image of your cat, or your neighbour's or a fictional one from your imagination! All materials provided. Just come and have a wonderful time! What will we cover? This beginner’s painting class will: • Focus on using watercolour and illustration skills • Cover drawing and composition • Teach the basic of watercolour paints through a playful approach • Help you achieve a watercolour cat illustration! What will I need? • All materials provided, just bring something to take your artworks home safely. Accessibility • Wheelchair accessible venue • All gender bathrooms • Discounted Early Bird Tickets • Free Tickets for First Nation Attendees • Auslan Interpreted Upon Request Who will be teaching? Emilie (she/her) is an artist and educator based between Melbourne and Marseille (Fr), working across media with a focus on community-based practice and education. She graduated from her PhD in Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2020 and has been an art resident at Testing Grounds (2020), Making Space (2021) and the Comic Art Workshop (2021). Emilie has exhibited her works at FortyFive Downstairs gallery, the Abbotsford convent, No Vacancy Gallery, Arcade and George Patton Gallery. In 2021, Emilie opened Couleur in Collingwood, a printmaking studio focusing on DIY, hand-prints, and experimental printmaking. Since 2023, Couleur Studio has relocated in South of France. Emilie is also a comic book artist and her illustration has been published by the Lifted Brow and she self-published her first graphic novel in 2018 with Tree Paper Comics in Melbourne. In 2023 she is running Glow Comics Trails festival with Laneway Learning, celebrating Melbourne's booming comics scene. Buy a gift card Terms and conditions FAQ More about accessibility Photo of Artist's own wonderful work. Questions about the class or other ways we can assist with accessibility? Just email us at [email protected] Idle Time Studios Idle Time Studios is a shared studio space for creatives in Brunswick East and a workshop space for art classes ! We are not wheelchair accessible as of now, and there is a flight of stairs to get to the workshop room. Idle Time is located :4-6 Lincoln St, Brunswick East VIC 3057 It is a short walk from tram stop Mitchell St/Holmes Street (stop 128), on the 1 or 6 tram line. There is plenty of street parking available on the street of the studio (Lincoln St), as well as along Allard park on Donald St. When you get to Idle Time Studio, go through the roller door and all the way down the courtyard. Turn right and up the stairs : the workshop room is at the top of the stairs on your left. Follow signs and call Studio resident and Laneway Learning teacher Emilie Walsh if you are lost : 0402684139