Wondrous Woodland!
Autumn 2022
An autumn term of Lou’s art school, featuring all the lovely growing, earthy things you find in a forest!
Week 1 - Marvellous Mushrooms
This short and sweet video will show you how to get hold of the downloadable line art for Lou’s projects and make a great start by tracing it onto your watercolour (or sketchbook) paper.
Paint a whimsical watercolour mushroom illustration with Lou. Get your downloadable line art from this website, and follow along!
Week 2 - Seeds and Berries
Use your sketchbook to draw seeds and berries gathered from the forest in different styles. Then use what you’ve learnt from observing them to make simplified versions for a more illustrative look.
Draw and paint with Lou as she creates a line and wash wreath of fabulous forest goodies. Pinecones, berries, branches and leaves.
Week 3 - Autumn Leaf Doodles
25th October - Testing white pens
What are the best options for drawing fine details over watercolour? Lou tests a range of white pens and paints.
28th October - Autumn Leaf Doodles
Paint a simple page of doodled autumn leaves. Have fun with autumn colour and make patterns on your leaf shapes.
Week 4 - Silver Birch Landscape
1st November - Choosing Colour Palettes for your Art Projects
When planning a project, use simple colour palettes to decide on the perfect colour schemes for your paintings. Try our different looks for your projects, with bright or subdued colours and experiment with tonal range.
4th November - Silver Birch Landscape Watercolour Painting
Paint a stand of autumnal silver birch trees in a hilly landscape.
Week 5 - Painting Trees
8th November - Watercolour Trees
Explore some tree shapes and practice a page full of trees.
11th November - Twisted Oak Tree
Paint beautiful imaginary trees in watercolour.
Week 6 - Beetles and Bugs
15th November - Experiments with Gouache
Trying out a new medium and seeing what we can do with it!
18th November - Imaginary Beetle Gouache Painting
Paint colourful beetles from your imagination.
Week 7 - Forest Path
22nd November - Light and Shade
Using one colour to create thumbnail sketches.
25th November - Forest Path Watercolour Painting
Create watercolour forest scenes with light and shade and using negative painting techniques.
Week 8 - Painting Birds
29th November - How to draw birds
Fill a sketchbook page with woodland birds
2nd December - Paint a Robin and Holly Illustration
Perfect for Christmas cards, paint a cheery watercolour robin.