This summer workshop focuses on creating your own personal 'mandala', or decorative design, using stylised representations from nature. Artist Martha Moderitz will guide you in the process of creating an artistic representation of your chosen subject using watercolour or gouache. Repetitive sketching exercises and simple geometry will help you engage free flow contemplation of nature's simple curves and lines. Build your skills and confidence as you learn to design and paint your own stylised botanical composition.
Martha will guide you in:
~Simple drawing techniques, encouraging you to feel and connect to the beauty and harmony of nature
~Seeing simple forms and shapes in complex objects in nature
~Techniques for sketching flowers and foliage
~Preparing simple grids for creating designs
~Basic colour theory and creating a palette for a composition
~A variety of painting techniques using watercolour or gouache
~Learning a process for building and completing an artistic representation of a botanical composition This class is ideal for all ages, from beginners through to anyone looking to refresh and develop their skills whilst enjoying a mindful practice in a creative setting. Seasonal flowers and foliage will be provided for inspiration. All materials are supplied but feel free to bring your own items from nature, as well as brushes and paints if you have them.
~Seeing simple forms and shapes in complex objects in nature
~Techniques for sketching flowers and foliage
~Preparing simple grids for creating designs
~Basic colour theory and creating a palette for a composition
~A variety of painting techniques using watercolour or gouache
~Learning a process for building and completing an artistic representation of a botanical composition This class is ideal for all ages, from beginners through to anyone looking to refresh and develop their skills whilst enjoying a mindful practice in a creative setting. Seasonal flowers and foliage will be provided for inspiration. All materials are supplied but feel free to bring your own items from nature, as well as brushes and paints if you have them.
About Martha Moderitz
Martha is a freelance artist and educator, and co-founder of Foundations4Creativity, an educational enterprise seeking to invoke the inner artist in everyone. Her work is inspired by the underlying structures and patterns found in our natural world. She explores ideas of inner expression and storytelling through her illustrations and paintings.
Martha graduated with a Masters in Traditional Arts from the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London, where she subsequently worked on the School’s international outreach programme. Martha received The Bagri Foundation Prize in 2017 for an original composition and her work is owned by private collectors in both the UK and Australia.
Martha graduated with a Masters in Traditional Arts from the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London, where she subsequently worked on the School’s international outreach programme. Martha received The Bagri Foundation Prize in 2017 for an original composition and her work is owned by private collectors in both the UK and Australia.
Workshop Schedule
This summer holiday workshop will run on Sunday afternoon 12 January for 3.5 hours from 2pm to 5.30pm.
We supply:
- High quality watercolour paper
- gouache and watercolour paints
- compasses, pencils, pens etc (feel free to byo if you have a high quality compass)
- Tea, coffee and light snack
- High quality watercolour paper
- gouache and watercolour paints
- compasses, pencils, pens etc (feel free to byo if you have a high quality compass)
- Tea, coffee and light snack
What to bring
- Feel free to bring your own paints and brushes if you have them
- Waterbottle
- Your mindful self!
About Martha Moderitz
Martha is a freelance artist and educator, and co-founder of Foundations4Creativity, an educational enterprise seeking to invoke the inner artist in everyone. Her work is inspired by the underlying structures and patterns found in our natural world. She explores ideas of inner expression and storytelling through her illustrations and paintings.
Martha graduated with a Masters in Traditional Arts from the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London, where she subsequently worked on the School’s international outreach programme. Martha received The Bagri Foundation Prize in 2017 for an original composition and her work is owned by private collectors in both the UK and Australia.
Martha graduated with a Masters in Traditional Arts from the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London, where she subsequently worked on the School’s international outreach programme. Martha received The Bagri Foundation Prize in 2017 for an original composition and her work is owned by private collectors in both the UK and Australia.
Martha is a freelance artist and educator, and co-founder of Foundations4Creativity, an educational enterprise seeking to invoke the inner artist in everyone. Her work is inspired by the underlying structures and patterns found in our natural world. She explores ideas of inner expression and storytelling through her illustrations and paintings.
Martha graduated with a Masters in Traditional Arts from the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London, where she subsequently worked on the School’s international outreach programme. Martha received The Bagri Foundation Prize in 2017 for an original composition and her work is owned by private collectors in both the UK and Australia.
Martha graduated with a Masters in Traditional Arts from the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London, where she subsequently worked on the School’s international outreach programme. Martha received The Bagri Foundation Prize in 2017 for an original composition and her work is owned by private collectors in both the UK and Australia.