Discover how much you can achieve with just one pigment!
Join Jayne for a watercolour session exploring the beauty of monochromatic painting.

Jayne explain her methods, demonstrate the techniques, and help you to achieve a simplified painting of my lone shell on a beach.

You will learn:

• How to mix your pigment to achieve a range of tonal values.

• How to apply paint wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-brushing.

• How to identify flaws in perspective and tonal values.

• How to correct your mistakes – we all make them!

  This workshop is suitable for beginners to intermediate artists.

Following on from Lynne Dara’s two Intro Art Gelli Plate workshops, this workshop takes your gel printing a step further, exploring how to create beautiful, layered gel-printed paper using stencils and a variety of mark-making techniques. Lynne will guide you through easy, practical steps to create purpose-made papers for collage, art cards, journal covers, or simply to enjoy as stand-alone prints.

In the afternoon, you’ll explore Lynne’s own approach to using gel-printed papers to create a collaged picture, with each participant taking home a unique piece of artwork they have created themselves.

For several years, Lynne has been exploring the use of gel printing to create papers that are beautiful in their own right, as well as to use them as a foundation for creating art. She has travelled with a pad of her gel-printed papers, using them to create collages on watercolour paper as she discovered scenes she wanted to record. More recently, she returned to this process to create a series of work that she exhibited at the last Expo. Having found this way of working so enjoyable and rewarding, Lynne is excited to share what she has learned with other gel-printing enthusiasts, while also enjoying the opportunity to learn from others who are keen to explore the possibilities of the Gelli Plate.

In this weekend workshop, Shona will share some of her foundational practices and introduce you to a raft of techniques. You’ll make your own concertina sketchbook and work with mixed media to fill it in an intuitive manner.

Through exploration and discovery, you’ll learn how to notice and gather the information needed to develop your own unique artistic voice. This workshop is similar in content to previous workshops Shona has delivered and is suitable for beginners through to more experienced artists wanting to loosen things up.

Some people who have worked with Shona in the past may wish to refresh or revisit previous learning.

Shona Mackenzie is an award-winning artist, educator and workshop tutor based in Tauranga. After many years teaching, she returned to art full-time in 2021, working from her studio at The Historic Village. Her semi-abstract

paintings are inspired by the natural world and her connections to both New Zealand and Scotland. Known for expressive mark-making, rich layers of texture and translucent acrylics, Shona takes an intuitive, process-driven approach, allowing each painting to evolve as she works. She is represented by Parnell Gallery and Gallery 33.

For those ready to take their work a step further, Shona’s three-day masterclass offers an opportunity to explore the creative possibilities of working in a series. Drawing on her experience and distinctive approach to mixed media and abstraction, this is an opportunity to take your practice further and dive deeper into the intuitive process behind her work.

This workshop can be attended by those who took Time to Break Free or any of her other workshops in the past – as long as you remember some of the basics!

Over the three days, using the knowledge, notes and samples from previous workshops, you’ll work on a series of three mixed media paintings, developing your work intuitively in a semi-abstract to abstract way. You’ll learn ways to trick your brain, disrupt your muscle memory and develop your artistic voice.

You’ll bring your own supplies, but Shona will have some materials available to purchase in sample sizes. A materials list is available prior to booking.