Watercolour Postcard Workshop

During this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to capture, on a postcard, an outdoor scene in your local environment using traditional watercolour media. You’ll be guided through tips on tools and tricks for colour mixing, then paint along with me as I give a live demo. Q+A will be welcomed throughout as you create your watercolour postcard!

Workshop participants can choose to paint a scene en direct (for example, a view out your window / in your backyard), bring a photo reference to work from, or follow along with the reference photo I’ll be using.

Following the workshop, you can exchange your watercolour postcard via snail mail with other workshop participants (facilitated by the BMCAA). Connect with a new BMCer and share a little slice of where you are with them!

Materials you’ll need:

• Basic watercolour set*
• Watercolour or mixed media paper: 5x7" postcard size
• Cup of water for cleaning and paper towel or cloth
• A watercolour brush (round size 10 recommended)
• Pencil for sketching
• An outdoor scene to paint: either one in your immediate environment (e.g. view out the window), or a reference photo
• Optional: water-soluble pencils, markers, ink, white gouache, white gel pen, eraser

*I will be using quinacridone red, hansa yellow medium, ultramarine blue, phthalo blue (green shade), cerulean blue, burnt sienna, and perylene maroon. But a basic triad of the primaries also works!

If you plan on purchasing new materials for this workshop, please consider supporting local art stores! For those located in Toronto/GTA, we recommend Above Ground , Curry's Art Store, and ARTiculations.