Brushes in Bunkers November 2025

Thank You !

I want to extend a big thank you to everyone who showed up for the first brushes in bunkers workshop 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 learned 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.

Our youngest student, 9-year-old Makayla, was exceptionally attentive and well-behaved, creating impressive artwork and bringing her own portfolio of sketches to show other artists.

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

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Sunday 23 November 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.

Watercolour and Ink
In this class students got to learn how to use watercolour with ink to create one of the Walshes shacks with depth and tonal range with ink and 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 weekend.

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 Cotman Watercolour Paint

• Lamp Black
• Cadmium Yellow
• Cerulean Blue
• Indian Red
• 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.