Date: 11 - 17 September 2027
When: 9.30am - 12.30pm
Where: Skopelos, Greece
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Any
We will be exploring our visual art with Natalie through our experiences on island each day. This special retreat will suit students of every level, you can be a complete beginner and still enjoy creating a beautiful travel journal full of illustrations and stories to keep your memories and show loved ones. You can also be an experienced artist seeking to extend your art practice and to create work for future exhibits. There will be lots of useful discussions targeted at your level of experience.
This art retreat is hosted by Artable, please click on the link below to find out more and book on their website.
Date: Sunday 18 April - Saturday 24 April 2027
Where: Winnaleah, Tasmania
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginner-Intermediate
If you are inspired to push your watercolours towards free and flowing contemporary botanical & landscape paintings, then join us for a week where Natalie Martin shows you how to enjoy all you can achieve with watercolours. You will be staying in your very own non-sharing room deep in the hills of remote North East Tasmania where a tiny farming community with a 100 year old hotel lies that is now Artable's Australian retreat base.
This workshop is fascilitated by Artable. The button below will take you to their website to book.
In 2026 I'm taking my family on the adventure of a lifetime! We are doing a lap of Australia and I am teaching workshops along the way. We are now in WA and planning to explore this beautiful state for the rest of the year, so if you're in WA and would like to do a workshop take a peek below.
Date: Tuesday 29 September 2026
When: 3 - 6pm
Where: Broome Library, Broome, WA
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginner
Join Natalie for a relaxed, beginner-friendly watercolour workshop where you’ll learn approachable techniques, gain clarity on the materials you actually need, and build confidence putting brush to paper. With plenty of guidance and a welcoming atmosphere, you’ll create a loose floral-inspired piece to take home and hopefully leave feeling calmer, inspired, and ready to keep painting.
Date: Saturday 17 October 2026
When: 2 - 5pm
Where: Karratha Arts and Learning Centre, Karratha, WA
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginner
Join Natalie for a relaxed, beginner-friendly watercolour workshop where you’ll learn approachable techniques, gain clarity on the materials you actually need, and build confidence putting brush to paper. With plenty of guidance and a welcoming atmosphere, you’ll create a loose floral-inspired piece to take home and hopefully leave feeling calmer, inspired, and ready to keep painting.
Date: Sunday 18 October 2026
When: 10 - 1pm
Where: Dampier Community Association, Dampier, WA
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginner
Join Natalie for a relaxed, beginner-friendly watercolour workshop where you’ll learn approachable techniques, gain clarity on the materials you actually need, and build confidence putting brush to paper. With plenty of guidance and a welcoming atmosphere, you’ll create a loose floral-inspired piece to take home and hopefully leave feeling calmer, inspired, and ready to keep painting.
Duration: 90mins
Skill level: Beginner
Suitable for ages 8+
This is my first online course, and where else do you start but at the beginning? In this self-paced beginners guide to contemporary watercolour we start from square one and build your skills and confidence towards painting botanical specimen from observation. I have essentially broken down my own process into accessible, bite size pieces ready for you to devour.
Duration: 120mins
Skill level: Beginner - Intermediate
Suitable for ages 10+
My second course, The Magic of Colour Mixing follows on from Welcome to Watercolour and is for budding and established artists alike. In it, we’ll go deep into modern colour theory and together, we’ll build up your skills and confidence so you too can create works bursting with life and begin to develop your own language with colour.
Duration: 2 hours and 40 minutes
Skill level: Intermediate
Suitable for ages 10+
Lessons in Layering with Watercolour is my third online course, following on from Welcome to Watercolour and The Magic of Colour Mixing. In it, we’ll dig into basic and more advanced layering techniques, you’ll spend time experimenting with ways to layer pigment, and learn how to create different effects (as long as you can muster the patience to let things dry properly as you go!) You’ll gain greater insight into my practice, as we explore how to create artworks with greater complexity, detail and interest. We also take time to delve into common errors and equipment care.
Duration: 3 hours and 15 minutes
Skill level: Intermediate - Advanced
Suitable for ages 14+
Composition, but make it fun! In this course we are going to explore ways to create successful compositions using the principles of art as our tools. This is a hands on course where we will be applying these principles to artworks we create, learning as we go. The outcome will be a greater understanding of composition, the role it plays in our artworks and a clearer path to creating successful artworks.Composition is such a large subject that I've created not one, but two courses! The first course or Compose, Paint Create Part 1 is launching in August and the follow on course, Compose, Paint, Create Part 2, later in 2023.
Duration: 3 hours and 45 minutes
Skill level: Intermediate - Advanced
Suitable for ages 14+
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.
Learn to paint expressive floral artworks using watercolour, pastel and other mixed media techniques with Natalie Martin.
Explore the exciting world of mixed media as we combine watercolour with pencils, pastel and expressive mark-making to create floral paintings full of texture, movement and personality. Through playful experimentation and step-by-step guidance, you'll discover a whole new way to approach watercolour and create artworks that feel uniquely your own.