Chris Osborne Art 
Watercolour & Ink
You’re invited to paint with Chris Osborne in a 4 hour introduction to watercolour & ink workshop. Where he will guide you through sketching and painting one of his four workshops below.
He will cover the basics of perspective, sketching simple shapes to build a complex looking structure or landscape.
Colour mixing with a limited palette will be covered along with tone work with Tombow brush pens. Then we will finish by working in all the details with a selection of fine liner pens.
This is a very loose style of watercolour painting enhanced with ink work, used for urban sketching but set in a classroom environment with a small group of 6 people.
The aim is to loosen up, have fun flicking paint and letting your pens dance around quality watercolour paper and having an artwork you will be proud to hang in your home.
Choose Your Subject
Osborne has created a watercolour & ink workshop with the choice of multiple subjects. The students will decide the subject as a group on their previous experience, ability and confidence. Below you can view Osborne’s original artwork and the reference image you will be working from at the workshop. Drag the slider from side to side to compare reference image and my representation as a watercolour sketch, note what Osborne has omitted to create a better composition or a more dramatic sketch.
Also if you want to see all the stages of each watercolour sketch then select the Blog Post Link under each image.
The workshop is set out over 4 hours with short breaks about every hour, this should be plenty of time for students to complete a few simple exercises and their main artwork. Also a few demonstrations by the instructor. Timetable example and maybe refined more on the day.
The course will be follow by example, Osborne will explain each technique while sketching and painting, this will be live streamed onto a 31″ TV or a projector if available for the students to watch and follow along.
Students will be shown a good workspace setup and how to avoid mishaps while working on their project.
Materials Supplied
This is a list of materials that each student will be supplied with to use on the day. (Please only take home your watercolour artworks and paper exercises in folder provided.)
Materials to take home
- Watercolour Paper Fabriano or Archers 300g Hot pressed (main artwork + scratch pad)
- A4 & A6 Drawing Paper (exercises)
- A4 Folder to protect Artwork
Materials to use then leave for next students at workshop
- Reference Image A4 Printout
- A3 Clipboard, Card, Mat (Tape paper to)
- Frog Masking Tape
- Watercolour Paper – Fabriano or Archers 300g Hot pressed
- A4 & A6 Drawing Paper for exercises
- Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolour Paint
- Artist Watercolour palette (Please don’t wash at end of lesson)
- Blackwing Matte soft lead pencil
- Kneadable Eraser
- Uni Pin Waterproof Pens 0.05 0.3 0.7
- Brushes – Small Round, Rigger, Stippling, large flat, Angled
- Water Container
- Tombow Dual Brush Pens
- Glassine Paper
- Kitchen Towel or Tissue
- Pencil Sharpener
Optional Materials
This is a list of optional materials students may wish to bring along to class.
- iPad + Charger to display reference images on to paint from in class (Note A4 printout supplied if you don’t own an iPad or tablet)
Reference Images to Download
You only need to download these reference files if your going to be working from an iPad and not a paper reference printout supplied.
Chris Osborne Art 
