Brushes in Bunkers December 2025

Thank You !

I want to extend a big thank you to everyone who showed up for the second weekend of brushes in bunkers workshops at Possum Park. It was an absolute blast to meet all of you and share some art knowledge. We had so much fun and laughter. Hopefully you learnt some new skills and have a better understanding of brush & tone techniques and watercolour & ink.

All workshops were follow by example, Osborne explained each technique while sketching and painting. more visual demonstrations were shown on a tv screen.

Students were shown a good workspace setup and how to avoid mishaps while working on their project.

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Saturday 6th December 2025

Brush & Tone Techniques
In this workshop student got to learn about different types of brushes, paper and how to use watercolour paint in different strengths to create a tonal chart. Also create a quick watercolour painting of a sail boat.

Brush & Ink Sketching
In this class students got to learn how to use brushes with ink to create a landscape with depth, tonal range with ink and brushes.

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Sunday 7th December 2025

Brush & Tone Techniques
In this workshop student got to learn about different types of brushes, paper and how to use watercolour paint in different strengths to create a tonal chart. Also create a quick watercolour painting of a sail boat.

Watercolour and Ink
In this class students got to learn how to use watercolour with ink to create two buildings with depth, tonal range with ink and tombow brush pens and watercolour paint.

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Saturday 13th December 2025

One Point Perspective
After you have learned how to identify horizon lines, vanishing point and perspective lines on photos and objects in the classroom. You will be given a few exercise to sketch on paper utilising these new skills.

Two Point Perspective
Students explore boxes, fence posts and train line examples in two-point perspective, identify vanishing points on the horizon, and learn how to proportionately depict people within their sketches, ensuring a more realistic depiction of depth in landscapes.

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Sunday 14th December 2025

Watercolour and Ink
In this class students got to learn how to use watercolour with ink to create a lighthouse and a yellow truck with depth, tonal range with fine liners, tombow brush pens and watercolour paint.

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Materials Used

This is a list of materials that were used in one or more workshops over the month of December.

Paper

• Recycled paper 80g (quick sketches)
• Windsor & Newton cold pressed 200g (tone & brush exercises)
• Canson Watercolour Paper cold pressed 185g (lighthouse exercises, scratch pad)
• Canson Watercolour Paper cold pressed 300g (main watercolour painting)
• Glassine Paper (rest hands on)

Materials

• A3 Clipboard, Card, Mat (Tape paper to)
• Frog Tape (local hardware shop)
• Pencil Staedtler, Faber Castell, Mont Marty (2H, HB, 2B, 3B, 4B, 6B)
• Uni Pin Waterproof Pen 0.05, 0.3, 0.7
• Tombow brush pen N95, N75, N55, N35, N60
• Kneadable Eraser – Lyra or Faber Castell
• Artist Watercolour palette (yours to take home with paint)
• Brushes – small round, large round, rigger, big flat, small flat, angled, (stippling or stencil)
• Water Container – old Ice cream container (Choc mint, vanilla or toffee!)
• Kitchen Towel or Tissue
• Winsor & Newton Black Indian Ink

Paint Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolours

• Brush & Tone exercises (Lamp Black)
• Post Office & Bakery (Turquoise, Yellow Ochre, Alizarin Crimson)
• Lighthouse exercise (Alizarin Crimson, Cerulean Blue)
• Yellow Truck (Cerulean Blue, Indian Red, Lemon Yellow, Hookers Green)

Art Supply Purchase Locations

• Pencils and fine liners – local newsagents.
• Frog tape – Mitre 10
• In store Artplus – Bundaberg
• In store Wide bay gallery – Maryborough
• Online http://www.Artsup.com.au – Kingswood, NSW
• Online http://www.artshedbrisbane.com.au – Brisbane

Upcoming Workshops

If you enjoyed your workshop and would like to receive some more training then jump back to the Upcoming workshops page.