Liz Chaderton Artist

Do you love the glint of gold, or the mellow shine of copper? Join Liz Chaderton to find out how to apply gold or metal leaf to your watercolours. We will venture into the world of mixed media, using metal leaf with our watercolours to bring a lovely shine and new dimension to our work. We will use gold size and loose leaf to achieve different effects and then combine it with our paintings. You may wish to bring a painting which you would like to add gold leaf to....

This online course helps you explore the wonderful variety of animal and birdlife. This course is based on Liz's successful in person watercolour workshop, and explores the painting of subjects from pets to farm animals, from British wildlife to more exotic creatures. We will spend time looking at eyes, tone and texture to create convincing animal portraits brimming with life and energy. Aimed at both those with little experience of painting animals, to the intermediate with more, this course will help you capture your muse in a new way. Some...

If you have never painted in watercolour and are not sure whether it is for you, this taster day is the perfect way to give it a go. Aimed at beginners, we’ll take it at your own pace. All materials are provided and the group is small, so you will get lots of individual guidance. We will cover materials and making the water work for you. We will explore mark making, tones and colour. You should go away with lots of tools in your kit, so that you will be...

From parrots to geese, the variety of bird life is stunning and they make fantastic subjects for paintings. We will take a look at birds and try to capture their personalities in watercolour. We will rise to the challenge of capturing the lightness of their flight and the glory of their plummage. The course will be held in a rural location in Knowl Hill, Berkshire, to provide you with an inspiring and relaxing environment. All materials are provided, along with refreshments. If you alreay love painting in watercolours you will...

With such a variety of wonderful pens available, why is it we reach for our fibre tip pens most of the time? Well, yes they are clean and convenient, but let's be honest they lack a bit of character.... In this day, you can join Liz to explore the use of dip pens in our line and wash work. From edgy cola pens (made from drinks cans) to Venetian glass pens, there are a variety of tools available which will brng a whole new dimension to your drawing and painting...

Ink resist / gouache wash off If you love the strength of ink against delicacy of watercolour washes, or just like learning unusual techniques, then ink resist or gouache wash off, is for you. It certainly exploits the very best of ink and watercolour. It is a painterly technique which produces an image similar to a wood or lino cut. Though the process is exacting and needs to be followed carefully, the end result is unpredictable and exciting. You will be introduced to this way of painting, and we will...

Through this interactive course we will turn the way we look at objects upside down and in the process discover that negative painting is far from negative! We will learn to reveal our subject by painting the space and air around it rather than by painting the object itself. Negative painting is especially powerful in watercolour, as we will struggle to paint white or pale objects on a white paper. By painting the air around the object, we can capture its light and form. With step by step guidance, we...

The wonderful variety of animal and birdlife means that you will never be short of inspiration. Liz runs a number of different days exploring the joys of painting animals with watercolour. You can either cover many animals in one day, or concentrate on farm animals, iconic hare, or pet portraits. The choice is yours. We will spend time looking at eyes, form and texture to create convincing animal portraits brimming with life and energy. The course will be held in a rural location near Twyford in Berkshire, to provide you...

Horses tend to feature high on any list of most popular animals. And no wonder. Our relationship with them goes back for many thousands of years. Back then, horses were used mostly for milk and meat, before being used as the powerhouse for agriculture and transport for adventurers through the centuries. But what if you want to capture a horse in loose and lively watercolour without painting every hair? You want to capture their beauty and strength while breathing life into your painting. In this course you will complete two...

Course is full: Please contact me to go on the waiting list. Pen and wash; line and wash; ink and watercolour. Whatever you call it, this is a lovely expressive way of working. It is excellent for quick sketches and more finished paintings. The key thing is to help both ink and watercolour play their part to the full and ensure that 2+2=5. We will start with exploring the role of line, experimenting with a wide range of pens and ink. Then we will move on to letting the watercolour...

Pen and wash - using a folded nib pen ('cola' pen) Learn an exciting new line and wash technique using a folded nib pen, which you can make yourself in 5-10 minutes out of a drinks can. Using waterproof Indian ink, you will go on to paint a dynamic portrait of a bird of prey and in the process learn lots of new mark making techniques which can be applied to urban sketching and a wide variety of others subjects.

Urban Sketchers is a global community of artists that practice drawing on location in cities, towns and villages they live in or travel to. The Urban Sketchers movement was started on Flickr in 2007 by journalist Gabriel Campanario. In 2009 Campanario established Urban Sketchers as a nonprofit organisation. If you would like to improve your on-location drawing this day should be idea. Timed to coincide with (hopefull) better weather, we will use the beautiful buildings at Micklems Farm or in Knowl Hill as our muse. Using pen and wash, we...

Traditionally watercolours are painted on paper and protected under a mount and glass. What if you could break free? What if you were no long restricted by size or the tyranny of framing? This weekend will explore how using new surface preparations watercolourists can enjoy working on canvas without the need to hide their images away behind the glare of glass. In June 2019 Crowood Press published a book simply called 'Watercolours on Canvas' by Liz Chaderton. Now you can spend a day exploring this new way of working. We...

I am really excited about this workshop. Capturing people in watercolour, is a great way of producing a lively portrait. We will look at how to pose people, take photos to work from and then go on to paint portraits. This day is all about painting, rather than drawing so we will be working from photos not a live model and we will explore transfer techniques - if Vermeer used the Camera Obscura, then we are allowed to use modern equivalents (in my opinion). We will explore both layering to...