Jake Winkle – Going wild in watercolour
£400.00
Dates:
3 February, 2026 - 5 February, 2026
Jake Winkle is renowned for his lively and dynamic watercolours, often capturing wildlife, equestrian, and horse racing themes with a strong sense of light, shape, movement, and spontaneity. His distinctive style emphasises fluidity over fine detail, utilising sprays of colour, translucent washes, and bold brushwork to express mood and motion.
12 Spaces Available
Your Course
GOING WILD IN WATERCOLOUR, with Jake Winkle
Using subject matter of mainly wildlife and animals students will learn to be expressive with watercolour. Jake’s direct paint and follow classes will guide students through all the essential watercolour techniques including ‘wet in wet’, ‘dry brush’, ‘laying a variegated wash’, ‘spatter’ and ‘expressive mark making’, all using uncluttered watercolour and fabulous colour.
Students can expect to paint two pictures a day and should come prepared with all their usual watercolour equipment including paint, brushes and enough good quality watercolour paper for six paintings plus practice, minimum size 15” x 11” either stretched or taped to a board. They will also need 2B and 2H pencils, a rubber, masking fluid and white body colour such as white ‘gouache. Jake will provide all subject matter photographs as well as tracing paper and sketches for those who would prefer not to draw freehand. Tubes of watercolour are preferred to pans but not essential.’
Key Information
- Suitable for: Beginngers
- Timings: 3-Day masterclass from 10am – 4.30pm
- Catering: A light lunch and refreshments will be provided each day. Please specify any dietary requirements at time of booking.
- Venue: The Waldron Gallery & Studio, TN21 0RA
- Essential materials to bring Notebook, Layout pad, Sketching Pencils, Self-propelling pencil, Eraser, Set Square, Scale ruler, Masking tape/scotch tape, Circle guide, Camera, Scissors, Fine liner – eg Staedtler thickness 0.05 – 0.3 – 0.5 – 0.1 (all are good), Tracing paper – pad or roll is more economical, Sketch book – several sizes is good, Colouring pencils, French Curves, Compass
- Non-essential but useful: Tape measure (long 30m tape and short 5m tape), Beam compass,Erasing shield
