Local Time

  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: 01 Oct 2025
  • Time: 05:15 - 07:15

Location

NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE
NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE
55, Westgate Road, Newcastle
Category

Date

01 Oct 2025

Time

10:15 - 12:15

Cost

£95.00

PAINTING SUNSETS IN WATERCOLOUR

Watching the sun set changing the colours of a landscape into a soft warm scene is magical. It often looks like a painting, so it’s natural that artists are drawn to sunsets as a subject. However, capturing the soft diffused light is not always straightforward and can cause watercolour painters frustration when they put brush to paper.

This course on aims to help you become a proficient sunset painter by exploring the methods that Jason has found work both outdoors – working directly from nature – and in the studio.

The overall aim of the course is to inspire you to make your own sunset paintings with watercolour

Medium

Watercolour

Level

This course would suit those with a little experience of watercolour who is looking to tune their painting skills.

Day, location and time

Wednesday 10:15 – 12:15 at Newcaste Arts Centre.

Duration

6 weeks – see calendar

Starts on September the 3rd and finishes on October 8th

Cost

£95

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Why does Jason think this course would be of value to you as a painter ?

This course will help you to illustrate sunsets using a variety of approaches and may help you to become more bold in your use of colour within landscapes.

What will you do on the course ?

  • Look at wet-in-wet effects in watercolour that work well within sunsets
  • Examine the effects Turner employed to illustrate sunsets within his watercolours
  • Look at ways to structure the sky to add depth to a sunset
  • Look at differing levels of sunlight and shadow found within sunset images and explore different painting approaches used to illustrate them.
  • Look at urban sunset image making
  • Look at the use of figures and props to help set the scene
  • Create your own artwork using some of the ideas explored on the course

What do you need ?

Please have your usual watercolour painting kit with you, plus a misting water spray bottle and a kitchen J cloth.

You will also need drawing paper, a pen and pencil, eraser and sharpener, some drawing paper, watercolour, paper for the first lesson as well as your painting kit.