MOD EducationCourse sheet
The English Rose in Watercolour
- Season
- Summer
- Months
- June – August
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Level
- Advanced
- Lessons
- 20 recorded
- Running time
- 12 h
- Access
- 24 months
- Subject
- A cupped garden rose in three stages
Kit
On the table
What the lessons use. You may own some of it already; the first lesson goes through it again.
- Hot-pressed watercolour paper, 300 gsm, A3
- Rose madder, permanent rose, quinacridone magenta
- Size 6, 2 and 0 brushes
- A rose (garden, shop or allotment)
Outcomes
By the last lesson you can
- Map the spiral of a cupped rose before painting
- Keep pale pinks clean over six glazes
- Paint a serrated leaf with a turned edge
- Finish a stem with thorns that sit on it, not beside it
Calendar
Where it sits in the year
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun — in season
- Jul — in season
- Aug — in season
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Summer, June – August. Full flowers, colour and the long evenings to paint them. The recordings stay open for 24 months, so you can wait for the plants.
Next
Draw next
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