New dates have been listed for 2025, yay! I'm so looking forward to getting back into teaching after the arrival of my second bub in 2024. Jump in quick, you know they will sell out. Make sure you are signed up to my email newsletter to find out about further new dates released. Simply pop your email into the subscribe box in the footer of my website.
If workshops aren't your thing, check out my online courses for tutorials you can complete in your the comfort of your own home.
Date: Friday 3 January 2025
When: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Where: Lon Retreat25 Gill Rd, Point Lonsdale, Victoria
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginner - Intermediate
Start the new year off with a deeply restorative and relaxing day designed to completely fill your cup. Join local watercolour artist Natalie Martin for a one day art retreat at the luxurious Lon Retreat.
Date: Saturday 18 January 2025
When: 9.30am - 12:30pm
Where: The Lightbox, 2/7-9 Cylinders Drive, Torquay VIC
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginners
Spend the morning with Natalie learning the joys of loose, contemporary watercolour painting. Suitable for total beginners, you’ll learn some watercolour techniques and tricks, have a play and find your feet in the medium. After a refuel with some morning tea we will then work towards a floral inspired piece to take home.
Date: Wednesday 22 January 2025
When: 11.30am - 12:00pm
Where: Geelong Botanic Gardens
Corner of Eastern Park Circuit &, Podbury Dr, East Geelong VIC
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginners
No bookings necessary, this is a free event.
Join us for a morning designed to rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit. Throughout the day, you’ll have the chance to sample a variety of workshops that cater to different aspects of well-being, including mindfulness, creative expression, movement, and holistic health. Whether you’re looking to explore new practices or deepen your existing knowledge, there’s something for everyone.
The day is a rolling workshop program, so feel free to come to one part or all! I'll be offering a little watercolour play in the rose garden, I can't wait.
Date: Saturday 15 February - Sunday 16 February 2025
When: 9.30am - 4:00pm
Where: Studio 1310 at Senior Arts Supplies, 1310 Malvern Rd, Malvern VIC 3144
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginners
Over two full days we progress through a series of skills and techniques working towards painting beautiful loose flowers and foliage. We'll look at getting the paint moving fluidly on the page, how to hold your brush, manage water control, relax into the process - seemingly simple things that contribute to better outcomes.
Natalie’s aim is for you to have one or two finished works to take home, but more importantly a new set of skills and a great understanding of watercolour so you can continue practicing at home.
Learn to paint en plein air using line and wash with Natalie Martin
Date: Saturday 22 February 2025
When: 9.30am - 12:30pm
Where: Geelong Botanic Gardens
Corner of Eastern Park Circuit &, Podbury Dr, East Geelong VIC
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginner - Intermediate
Join local watercolour artist Natalie Martin at the Geelong Botanic Gardens for a morning of relaxing painting and sketching outdoors. We will focus on a mixed media, line and wash technique and capture the seasonal beauty of the gardens. This class is all about loosening up and having some fun creating simple florals or landscapes in a expressive style. Natalie will guide you through a couple of warm up exercises before approaching a final piece for you to take home.
Date: Saturday 15 March 2025
When: 9.30am - 12:30pm
Where: The Lightbox, 2/7-9 Cylinders Drive, Torquay VIC
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginners
Spend the morning with Natalie learning the joys of loose, contemporary watercolour painting. Suitable for total beginners, you’ll learn some watercolour techniques and tricks, have a play and find your feet in the medium. After a refuel with some morning tea we will then work towards a floral inspired piece to take home.
Learn to paint en plein air using line and wash with Natalie Martin
Date: Saturday 5 April 2025
When: 9.30am - 12:30pm
Where: Geelong Botanic Gardens
Corner of Eastern Park Circuit &, Podbury Dr, East Geelong VIC
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginner - Intermediate
Join local watercolour artist Natalie Martin at the Geelong Botanic Gardens for a morning of relaxing painting and sketching outdoors. We will focus on a mixed media, line and wash technique and capture the seasonal beauty of the gardens. This class is all about loosening up and having some fun creating simple florals or landscapes in a expressive style. Natalie will guide you through a couple of warm up exercises before approaching a final piece for you to take home.
Date: 17 - 18 May 2025
Where: The Royal QLD Art Society (RQAS) 25 Broadbeach Blvd, Broadbeach
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Over two full days we progress through a series of skills and techniques working towards painting beautiful loose flowers and foliage. We'll look at getting the paint moving fluidly on the page, how to hold your brush, manage water control, relax into the process - seemingly simple things that contribute to better outcomes.
Natalie’s aim is for you to have one or two finished works to take home, but more importantly a new set of skills and a great understanding of watercolour so you can continue practicing at home.
Date: 7 - 13 September, 2025
Where: Winnaleah, Tasmania
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Are you inspired by bush wanderings and botanicals? Delicate, beautiful natives nestled amongst moss and lichen await you in the forests of north east Tasmania along with the guidance to capture them in paint and a range of mark making materials with Natalie Martin. We have crafted a beautiful itinerary to give you plenty of ‘wandering’ time along with studio time to explore your ideas in more depth. You will be staying deep in a tiny Tasmanian farming community with a 100 year old hotel lies that is now Artable's Australian retreat base.
Learn more and book directly with Artable via the button below.
Learn to paint en plein air using line and wash with Natalie Martin
Date: Saturday 4 October 2025
When: 9.30am - 12:30pm
Where: Geelong Botanic Gardens
Corner of Eastern Park Circuit &, Podbury Dr, East Geelong VIC
Instructor: Natalie Martin
Skill level: Beginner - Intermediate
Join local watercolour artist Natalie Martin at the Geelong Botanic Gardens for a morning of relaxing painting and sketching outdoors. We will focus on a mixed media, line and wash technique and capture the seasonal beauty of the gardens. This class is all about loosening up and having some fun creating simple florals or landscapes in a expressive style. Natalie will guide you through a couple of warm up exercises before approaching a final piece for you to take home.
In 2026 I'm taking my family on tour, we are doing the Big Lap! Going around Australia. It's been on my bucket list since I can remember. Reaching regional Australia with my watercolour workshops is something I am super passionate about too, so I'm taking them on tour also! This is for the small town community arts groups, arts societies, galleries and workshop hosts, let me know if you'd like me to come and do a workshop in your town. I'm taking expressions of interest so I can start planning, leave me your contact details, business or club name, location and best time of year when you click 'Apply Now'. I won't be able to get everywhere, but I'm hoping to really make the most of it. I can't wait to hit the road and create with you.
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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.
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