Watercolor Crafternoon

Despite of the Typhoon Mario and low pressure area which have flooded our house, I still attended Alessa Lanot’s (Life After Breakfast) Sunday Basic Watercolor Workshop at Fully Booked, BGC. The workshop is my fiancé’s advance birthday gift for me and I was lucky to avail her limited slot. Unlike with the previous Calligraphy workshop, I already have basic know-hows for watercolor painting. 

The workshop fee is Php1,750 which includes watercolor materials: 4 brushes, 18 color Sakura Koi pan set, 4 sheets of small water color cards, Pencil and eraser.

The workshop started with Watercolor basics presented in power point presentation. I’ll try to share it on detail. First she discussed about different types of watercolor materials from the paint to the brush itself. 

Alessa discussing the color pallets of Sakura Koi Pan Set

Her explanation about how important is the color wheel is very helpful specially for picking the right color combination in harmonizing everything. She also discussed proper handling of paint brush when you want to be in control. 

She demonstrated to us the basics of watercolor mixtures: weak-tea, tea strength, milk strength and cream strength. The key is placing right amount of water to obtain the shade you want to achieve.

Alessa's actual painting of Orchid

This is Alessa's actual painting of Orchid. She's a natural. She showed us how she paints in detail. Just like the other girls I was so amazed. 

One of my favorite water color techniques is wet-on-wet. We did some flower blobs performing this technique. I'm proud that I did well in this activity. We were asked to choose the flower we wanted to paint for the final activity. I chose Orchids, assuming it will be a lot easier to paint but I failed.

The Hall of Artworks

 
I will say that Life After Breakfast watercolor workshop is a worthwhile experience, especially if you really want to know the basics of watercolor medium. It’s different when you actually see it in actual application compared to just watching youtube tutorials. Although in my case, I find the Php1,750 workshop fee a bit pricey for a four hours’ workshop which is quite short. I would love if we had more practice sets and some concise handouts to thinker on. 

If you don’t have budget there are quite number of watercolor tutorials in youtube and some you will find in pinterest.