Louise Garman leading a hands-on art workshop

Workshops

Chelsea School of Art Fine Art graduate Louise Garman regularly runs fun, hands on, creative and expressive art workshops for adults, from beginners to advanced. She has run these classes everywhere from cruise ships to local community and art gallery settings, to private social gatherings.

Louise offers the following workshops to choose from…

Workshop participants painting pink magnolia blossoms in the Chinese painting style

Chinese Painting

Learn the art of Sumi-e or traditional Chinese painting. From birds, to flowers and landscapes using individual brush strokes on rice paper. You will learn different brushstrokes and be given different exercises to practice the art of Chinese painting. You will then create one/two paintings to take home. These final pieces can include blossom trees, bamboo sticks and leaves, or maybe a mountain scenery.

Workshop participants painting watercolour irises and floral studies around a table

From Sketch to Watercolour

In this Watercolour painting workshop you will get the chance to create a colour wheel and learn about colour mixing and colour theory. You will also learn about graded washes using both wet on wet and dry brush techniques. For the beginners who lack confidence, Louise will provide images and worksheets to work from. For the more advanced students, she will provide a still life to work directly from or the class will venture outdoors…

The psychology of colour wheel diagram

Colours & Feelings

Explore the amazing colour wheel, then produce a drawing, and transform it into an abstract painting on canvas linked to emotions and feelings. All levels.

Green and blue leaf monoprints on black paper, pegged up to dry

Monoprinting

Monoprint is a straightforward and exciting way of producing printed images directly from a perspex plate. They are bold, direct, and unique. You can bring sketchbooks, photographs and images to use and inspire your prints. All levels.

Workshop participants sketching on clipboards on a bench outdoors

How To Draw

From beginners to the more advanced, and everyone in between, you can expect to learn or enhance your drawing skills using line, tone, texture and composition.

To book a workshop, contact Louise directly

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