Taroom Marine Life July 2026

Thank You !

I want to extend a big thank you to everyone who showed up for my new watercolour marine life workshop at Taroom Town Hall. It was a very cold start to the morning with frost on the ground in some areas. It was wonderful to meet some new and returning faces and share some art knowledge.

Hopefully you learned some new skills and have a better understanding of watercolour as a paint medium, and learned a few wet on wet & wet on dry techniques along the way.

Also a big thank you to Cindy from the Taroom Art Group for advertising the workshop, booking the Town Hall and organising sponsorship subsidies and all the paperwork involved for the past two years.

Sat 25th July 2026

Watercolour Marine Life
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 range of marks on 180g watercolour paper. Then moved on to create a watercolour painting of some coral from Hervey Bay and a fish from Marine World also at Hervey Bay.

Watercolour Marine life V1 – Class Notes Download

Fish, Crabs & Starfish Reference photos

Materials Used

This is a list of materials that were used in the watercolour workshops.

Paper

Canson Watercolour Paper cold pressed 185g (Paint consistencies exercises, scratch pad)
Canson Watercolour Paper cold pressed 300g (Coral & Fish painting)

Materials

A3 Clipboard, Card, Mat (Tape paper to)
Frog Tape (local hardware shop)
Pencil Staedtler, Faber Castell, Mont Marty (4B, 6B)
Kneadable Eraser – Lyra or Faber Castell
Artist Watercolour palette (yours to take home with paint)
Brushes – small round, rigger, angled
Water Container – old Ice cream container (Choc mint, vanilla or toffee!)
Water Mister – Xpress it
Kitchen Towel or Tissue
A4 LED Light Pad Anko – Kmart

Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolour Paint

Colour totally dependant on the fish you selected.

Turquoise
Prussian Blue
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Yellow
Permanent Rose

Dioxazine Purple
Indian Red
Lamp Black
Paynes Grey (Coral)
Yellow Ochre (Coral)

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.

Chris Osborne Art