Michele Webber
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Artist Name: Michele WebberTuition
Tuition is available primarily in Watercolour, but also in Gouache, Pencil, Charcoal, Pastels, Pen and Ink etc. Please note that I do not tutor Oil Painting and do not have the facilities to teach Life Drawing or Printmaking in my studio.
** Free online tuition articles can be accessed via my personal website.
REGULAR SAT MORNING CLASSES IN GREAT CORNARD, SUDBURY
I currently have a couple of places available in my regular painting and drawing classes. Try out a class for free to see if you like it! (Subject to place availability.
PRIVATE TUITION
Available at my studio £21 per hour, (Places limited). Please note, I am only currently taking private student appointments for Saturday afternoons, and occasionally mornings.
ONE DAY COURSES SUMMER 2013:
WATERCOLOUR FOR COMPLETE BEGINNERS
Date Thurs 25th July Time 10.30am to 4pm
Venue The Sports Pavilion, Lavenham Price £48.00
Want to start painting, but no idea how? Or perhaps you have a set of paints languishing in a drawer, barely touched? This is the course for you: We will start by looking at the qualities of the paint, and how it works. The day will cover which brushes to use, the difference between block and tube paints, how to prepare your paper and make an under-drawing. Basic blending techniques will be demonstrated and we will have a go at a simple landscape and a botanical subject. By the end of the day you will have the knowledge and confidence to take your new hobby forwards!
WATERCOLOUR TIPS AND TECHNIQUES
Date Tues 6th August Time 10.30am to 4pm
Venue The Sports Pavilion, Lavenham Price £53.00
Quite simply the most popular and useful watercolour course I teach. A whole day dedicated to hands-on practice and learning new techniques. Methods will be demonstrated and practiced on pieces of paper that will be collated at the end of the day to make a take-home booklet to keep as a permanent reminder of your practice and results. Discover new ways to use the fantastically versatile medium of watercolour, plus useful tips for rescuing work that is going wrong. At the end of the day you will have a physical record of over 20 fantastic watercolour and mixed media techniques.
COLOUR MIXING FOR WATERCOLOUR
Date Tues 13th August Time 10.30am to 4pm
Venue The Hills Room, Gainsborough?s House, Sudbury Price £48.00
Are you confused about colour mixing? Would you like to learn more, without being baffled by science and colour wheels? Practical exercises and demos aimed at teaching you how to take the guesswork out of mixing your paints. Demonstrations include Skin tones, Creams and Neutrals and how to analyse and mix accurate, natural Greens.
We will also learn how to make useful colour charts and look at how the qualities of the paints themselves affects the colour results you will get.
LINE AND WASH WITH WATERCOLOURS
Date Tues 20th August Time 10.30am to 4pm
Venue The Hills Room, Gainsborough?s House, Sudbury Price £48.00
A day to learn the techniques involved in ?Line & Wash?, using pen alongside loose washes of watercolour paint. The day starts with demonstrations of pen work, and you will have the chance to try old fashioned ?Dip Pens? as well as modern liner pens. In the morning we will tackle a simple botanical subject and after lunch we will apply the techniques learned to create images of architectural details and statues.
WORKSHOPS AND DEMOS
Price dependent on details, please email.
- Future Tuition:
- Adults Painting and Drawing, Sat Mornings
- Private one to one tuition
Biography
Michele Webber was born in Middlesex, England in 1967 and currently lives with her partner and teenage daughter in Suffolk.
As a child, Michele spent all her spare time reading novels and drawing pictures, usually in biro of animals and ‘80’s pop stars. Education was interrupted by frequent family house moves and her desire to become an artist was discouraged firmly by the school’s careers officer who told her to learn to type. Michele learned to type and worked in a wildly varying array of jobs for the next 10 years. Like many women, a break to have a baby gave her time to assess her own life and wonder what happened to the child who wanted to be an artist. A choice was made, more than a choice, and unshakeable decision that from now on she would work as an artist and simply not listen to doubters.
Turning to local botanical artist Christopher Ryland for tuition, an affinity to watercolours was discovered. Michele’s work now includes printmaking, mixed media and mosaic; she has studied under several professional artists and still learns from other artists, some of whom are now good friends, as well as from her own students, whose creativity never ceases to amaze her. Watercolour remains her favourite medium; subjects visited frequently are nature and the coast; her work displaying a love of colour and a comprehensive knowledge of technique.
Working from her garden studio with Gimlet the cat for company, Michele is now a published illustrator, and regularly exhibits in galleries and open exhibitions. She now teaches her own students via classes, courses and private tuition. Michele is a professional associate of the SAA (Society for All Artists) and a member of several art societies, including the Colchester Art Society, SoEAW (Society of East Anglian Watercolourists) and the Gainsborough’s House Printmakers. Looking forwards, Michele seeks to improve standards, both in her own artistic practice and her teaching, and explore her increasing enjoyment of writing about art and rising to the challenges that the digital age throws at her.
‘All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.’
Pablo Picasso
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Exhibitions
For a current and constantly updated list of where I am exhibiting please see my personal website.
Media
Collage, Coloured Pencil, Drawing, Gouache, Mixed Media, Monoprint, Mosaic, Oil pastel, Pastels, Pen & Ink, Pen And Wash, Pencil/Charcoal, Printmaking, Watercolour, Watercolour Pencil
Subjects
Animals, Botanical Illustration, Buildings, Cars & Trains, Colour Mixing, Figure, Flowers And Gardens, Illustration, Landscape, Life Drawing, Pet Portrait, Portrait, Seascapes and Water, Skies, Still Life, Surrealism, Townscapes, Trees and Foliage, Waterways and Canals, Wildlife
