New Online Course!
Let's Put Composition into Practice Painting Watercolour Botanicals with Natalie Martin
Are you a budding artist wanting to take the next step? Join me, Natalie Martin, a professional watercolour artist as I guide you through how to bring artworks together on your own and start to develop your own artistic voice. I am encouraging, gentle and human and nothing brings me more joy than watching my students grow.
Compose, Paint, Create Part 2 is the follow up course to Compose, Paint, Create Part 1. We’ve already begun to understand the importance of this underrated, fascinating and fundamental bank of knowledge, it’s time to make it official. This course will solidify your understanding of how to create compelling compositions using watercolour botanicals.
We pick up where we leave off in Part 1 and explore the further five Principles of Art; Contrast, Movement, Rhythm, Pattern and Repetition - rounding out our understanding of these powerful tools. Each has a creative project wrapped around it so we can put the theory straight into practice.
Before we wrap up, we learn how to analyse our compositions ourselves! Analysis is an incredibly important part of your creative process and progression
as an artist. It’s what is going to help bring everything all together and get the 10 Principles of Art humming in your work. Understanding how to analyse artwork is not only going to have an impact on your own work, but the way you interpret artwork everywhere - from a gallery to the street art at the end of your block. We top things off with how and when to break the rules. We’ve just spent a few hours learning all the rules, and yep! - there are times and places where breaking the rules really works. It’s an interesting fun thing to play with and can be the secret sauce that takes your work to the next level. Through my research I found that most courses on composition were either overly simplified or too heavy on the theory therefore difficult to engage with. I created this course so we can not only comprehensively cover composition but also have a little fun with it. I also provide you the information, tools and reference material to put it all straight into practice! Once again we use botanicals as our guiding theme, something to gel it all together. I have a whole different bunch of flowers and foliage to inspire you and create some beautiful compositions. Let’s paint our way to understanding composition! Grab your paint brushes, let’s get started.
What to expect:
10 videos shot in High Definition with an overall run time of 3 hours and 45 minutes. The beauty of a self paced online course is that you can work at your own space and pause and practice before proceeding onto the next stages. You are also able to revisit the course time and time again.
Outcomes:
• A comprehensive understanding of composition
• A solid understanding of watercolour materials
• How to apply the Principles of Art
• How to analyse your compositions
• Tools to help you resolve unfinished artworks
• Understanding the rules of composition to then break them
• The confidence to create resolved paintings on your own
• A series of botanical inspired
paintings
Downloadable files included:
• Materials List
• Course E-Book
• 5 Principles of Art Quick Guides
• Photos for painting inspiration
• Printable assets for course work
• Reference sheets of Natalie's course work
Compose, Paint, Create
Part 2 Course E-Book
Included in your enrolment is a 103 page E-Book (available on Teachable only). Chock full of hot tips, key takeaways and extension projects to further your watercolour fun. This is your very handy companion guide for the course, something to reference when you are practicing and playing at home.
What you'll need:
I go into greater detail on materials required in the second video of the course. I have tried to keep the supplies required to a minimum so it's more about the painting than the supplies!
• Watercolour paints
• Synthetic Round brushes - size 10 and 4
• Watercolour paper
• Pencil, eraser, scissors and metal ruler
• Coloured Pencils
• Water jar
• Salt
• Palette (an old plate will do)
• Paper towel
• Surface to work on
• Computer, tablet or phone
Compose, Paint, Create Part 2 is available on Teachable as a one off purchase cost. You receive lifetime access to the course videos and can work through the course at your own pace. Your Teachable purchase also includes the Course E-Book, your ride-or-die side kick to the course videos.
We would be delighted for you to gift this course. We recommend you purchase an E-Gift Card that your gift recipient can then redeem for the course. We have an $89 E-Gift Cards available as well as an ability to add a personalised message to your E-Gift card. Alternatively, you can proceed through the checkout and use the recipients email and contact details and this will also automatically and immediately enrol them in the course.
In line with Teachable's terms of use, students are entitled to a full refund within 30 days of their initial payment for course purchases if it does not meet expectations. This includes all courses purchased through nataliemartin.com.au. It does not include Skillshare memberships.
*The course is also available on Skillshare (a subscription based platform). There you will find the whole Compose, Paint, Create Part 1 course, as well as many other courses across other disciplines! You can subscribe to Skillshare and pay a monthly subscription to access the entire library of Skillshare online courses. You will only have access to the course while you have a Skillshare subscription, however your subscription does not include the Course E-Book.
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