Blooming Colours with Rose Cowles
Opus Essential Watercolour AmbassadorAbout This Experience
Join Rose Cowels at Opus Victoria for a creative experience sure to spark joy!
In light of the theme, “Blooming Colours,” Rose would like to highlight the efficacy of Opus Essential Water Colours on Magnani Italia cold-pressed WC paper using Galiano brushes.
The goal is to emphasize play and new possibilities rather than perfection. Splashing, mark-making, and some simple drawing goals will be demonstrated to help reach the desired effect. Big, bold foliage, curvy women in “bloomers” on chaise loungers, and possibly some bonbons while demonstrating will make this learning opportunity fun and quite possibly a bit silly.
Materials
Opus Essential Watercolours: Corn Silk Yellow, Cad Yellow Medium, Raw Umber, Olive Green, Perylene Green, Neutral Tint, Cobalt Turquoise, Cobalt Blue, Paynes Gray, Ethereal, Opera Rose, Cad Red Medium, Rose Madder, Perylene Maroon, Lilac, Titanium White
Opus Galiano Brush Set of 5 Assorted: Round size 0, 4, 8, 12, Flat size ½”
Caran d'Ache Grafcube RGB Coloured Graphite Sticks: Red, Green, and Blue
Winsor & Newton Fineliner Pens - Cool Grey: 0.1
Magnani Italia Watercolour Blocks Cold Pressed - 300gsm
Opus Try-it Station: Explore various featured materials on the event day.
About Your Host
Rose Cowles is a Governor General Award-nominated artist who creates full-time from her rooftop home studio in Esquimalt, BC. She earned a three-year diploma in Illustration from Sheridan College in 1990 and has won many awards for fine art, illustration, and design over her 30-year career as a freelance artist. Acrylics, watercolours and oils are most often her mediums of choice.
If you were to ask Rose what she is all about, she would tell you that she is in the business of simple pleasures that provide the viewer with brief and positive experiences. Rose’s work portrays everything from realism to the whimsical and everything in between. She wishes to be an inspiration for those that need it and, alternatively, a "kick in the ass" reminder to those that wish to do better.
Website: rosecowlesart.com
Instagram: @rosecowlesart
