Raquel Carter

“Bring your ideas out onto the canvas”.

Whether you're just starting out or looking to push your ideas further, this workshop provides a supportive space to develop your artwork. In a relaxed three-hour session on Saturday mornings, you’ll have the opportunity to explore painting and drawing techniques while receiving guidance tailored to your creative journey.

Join us from 10 – 12 on Saturdays with a flexible weekly drop-in option. Come for a single session to gain insights or attend regularly and enjoy the inspiring artistic community at Country Lane. All styles and ideas are welcome, whether you work in oils, acrylics, drawing, or mixed media.

Canvas size is entirely up to you! It might be that you are currently excited by the idea of bright abstracts or the immediacy of drawing, or the depth and richness of oils. Maybe you love the transparency of inky acrylic washes and the flexibility of acrylics. Or the exploratory nature of collage and layered assemblage of mixed media and glazing.

This 2 hr workshop embraces the diversity of your imagination and can touch on each of these mediums and encourages a deeper understanding of what they can do and an expansive experience of what you can create.

I work across contemporary landscape, abstract, illustrative figures, and portraits and encourage experimentation with mediums and techniques. Through different mediums we explore foundational art skills such as creating depth, achieving balance in form and colour, and exploring drawing as both a standalone practice and the structural foundation of a painting. We will discuss many fundamental skills which transfer between acrylic and oil painting techniques,

What to Bring:

• Your own canvas - any size

• Any paints you are presently using - especially if your working in oils.

  - you can explore the studio colours in oils and acrylics too.

• An apron or old clothes

Materials & Refreshments:
I provide brushes and mixed media materials for experimentation, along with acrylic paint to help explore your colour mixing and any necessary tools. I'll also demonstrate how different colours can be mixed using the studio paints to help you bring your ideas to life.

If your wanting to use oils, please bring what you have along or just 3 core colours. like Cadmium yellow, blue and red of choice, as with these you can make all the other colours.

Tea, coffee, and light snacks are available, and you are welcome to bring in a vino’ or something to eat in from Buzzstop Café or Sundays’ at Country Lane to enjoy in the studio.

Please Note:

• A minimum of three participants is required for the class to run. You will be notified the day before if there is less than 3.

• If you have any questions please send me a direct message below