Intuitive Watercolour Landscapes
Intuitive Watercolour Practices is about letting go of the pressure to make a "good painting" and building a creative habit that feels natural to you. Watercolour is fluid, unpredictable and forgiving, so it suits play, curiosity and getting lost in the process.
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Mon 19 Oct6 Mondays, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (No Class Labour Day 26/10/26) At Selwyn College, Auckland. Ashley Ruth Stirling
- $145.00 incl. GST
Sessions
Session 1
Mon 19 Oct 19:00 - Mon 19 Oct 21:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 2
Mon 02 Nov 19:00 - Mon 02 Nov 21:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 3
Mon 09 Nov 19:00 - Mon 09 Nov 21:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 4
Mon 16 Nov 19:00 - Mon 16 Nov 21:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 5
Mon 23 Nov 19:00 - Mon 23 Nov 21:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 6
Mon 30 Nov 19:00 - Mon 30 Nov 21:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Please note there is NO refund or transfer if you cancel less than 5 working days in advance of a class starting. Our refund policy can be read in full here.
Description
You'll explore a range of simple, adaptable practices: loose colour play, mindful mark-making, responding to mood and memory, and quick exercises you can fit into ten spare minutes or a slow Sunday afternoon. Along the way you'll learn the watercolour basics (washes, layering, wet-into-wet and letting the paint do the work), always as tools for expression rather than rules to follow.
You'll leave with more than a few finished pieces. You'll have a personal toolkit of creative practices you can come back to whenever you need to unwind, reconnect or simply make something, and they'll keep working for you as your life changes.
No experience needed. You just need to be curious and willing to see where the paint takes you.
Course outline
Week One: Curiosity
Colour, Circles, and Blobs! We’ll explore why you’re here, what you’re needing from an intuitive watercolour practice. Then we’ll begin practicing those intentions in a fun, meditative way – exploring the paints with circles and blobs.
Week Two: Calm
Patchwork and Patterns! Using a mindful watercolour practice, we’ll build patchwork shapes on a page, stitching them together with paint. You’ll leave with a quilt of sorts, and something you can keep working on for as long as it takes to find calm.
Week Three: Control
Landscapes and Mindscapes! Creating your own watercolour worlds is a great way to feel a sense of control when the world around you feel out-of-control. We’ll do this a couple different ways, timed and untimed, and then you can work on a landscape for your mind.
Week Four: Balance
Building your intentions with watercolour rocks! An introspective week where we paint piles of rocks for values we aspire to and emotions we want to acknowledge.
Week Five: Nostalgia
Memories and Moments! We’ll learn mindful ways to paint when we’re missing someone or something – whether that brings happy thoughts or sad ones. You can bring photos that represent that feeling while the paint and page hold space for you. This can be for reminiscing about a happy childhood memory, or maybe even for a grief you’re holding.
Week Six: Presence
Here and now! We’ll learn intuitive practices for painting wherever you are, wherever you go. You can do this many ways, and I’ll show you a few before we make a final chart for your future intuitive watercolour practice.
Who should attend?
Beginners, anyone wishing to set aside some time for something creative.
What to bring
All materials are supplied.
About your tutor, Ashley Ruth
Ashley Ruth Stirling lives and breathes art, taking her travel-size watercolour supplies with her everywhere she goes - no exaggeration! She has developed her own unique style of watercolour and illustration and creates art every day. A gifted teacher, she will guide you through the creative process in an enabling and encouraging manner so therapeutic you won't want class to end.
