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SUMMARY:How to Create a Watercolour Sketch Travel Journal - Castlemaine & Maldon workshop
DESCRIPTION:After our sell-out April 3 day workshops in Castlemaine we are running a 6 day workshop this year and this time incorporating the outstanding historic town of Maldon which just cannot be missed. A totally different itinerary so any who joined us in April will love joining us again in November! This SIX DAY workshop is for anyone who would like to learn a fun and easy way to draw\, create a great-looking travel sketchbook and understand the mysteries of how to use watercolour . \nJoin us in Castlemaine and BEAUTIFUL historic Maldon in Victoria for a relaxed\, fun set of 8 workshops on how to create a lovely watercolour travel journal.  No experience is necessary and no talent required for this workshop.  Easy!\nThese workshops will suit everyone whether you are a total beginner or you are a seasoned sketcher. (Our itinerary is different from our first castlemaine tour for anyone from the April workshop wishing to join us again) \nYou will be BLOWN AWAY by the venues\, sketch opportunities and exciting things we have planned for you. \n\nYou produce according to your skill set and you learn from others around you.\nLots of gentle guidance and direction from your teacher shows you how easy it is to produce good results and you will improve enormously with each session.\nThere is no judgement\, no fear\, no criticism – just a really enjoyable experience.\n\nKATE STEDMAN\, an experienced teacher\, takes you step-by-step in each workshop so that you never feel overwhelmed and the whole experience is fun as well as educational.\nTo see her artwork and find out more about her click HERE\nThese workshops provide friendship\, laughs and lots of fun. \n\nLearn how to present not just an easy sketch but a travel journal with interesting layout\, headings\, texts\, collage and colour.\nLearn how to make any sketch “POP” out for the viewer\n\nWe have 8 workshops spread morning and afternoon over 3 full days in the regional country town of historic Castlemaine and Maldon\, Victoria\, Australia. Each workshop is about 2.5 hours long so there is plenty of time to explore and sketch and stretch your legs inbetween times. \nYour experienced tour manager and host Kate Stedman is an historian\, art lover and avid sketcher and she will take you to her favourite spots and regale you with fun facts and historic gems each day as well. \n \n\nItinerary Overview\nPrice & Dates\nGetting to and From Castlemaine\nAccommodation Details\nCastlemaine the Town\nOnline Booking Form\nWatercolour Sketch Kit \nDay 1:  Arrive hotel  and meet the group for a welcome drink in our hotel foyer at 4 pm. Welcome dinner in town provided tonight \nDay 2: Workshop at hotel in morning.  LIGHT LUNCH  PROVIDED. Workshop on location in township in the afternoon. The fabulous Tuesday night “Pot Luck Dinner” at our hotel optional but such fun! \nDay 3: Workshop at hotel in morning.  LIGHT LUNCH PROVIDED. Workshop on location in township in the afternoon. Free evening \nDay 4: Workshop at hotel in morning.  LIGHT LUNCH PROVIDED. Workshop on location in a surprise spot this afternoon. Evening free \nDay 5: Sketching surprise in Maldon (not telling yet!) Light lunch provided. Optional group dinner at the Hotel pub nearby \nDay 6: Tour ends after breakfast and you are free to depart \n \n.\n\n6 days starting November 15 – 20 in 2021. \nCOST in AUD:\n$1\,200 per person for two people sharing a room – EITHER TWIN ROOM or DOUBLE BED\n$650 extra for a single traveller booking own room throughout the tour \nNB: Deposit of $300 AUD is required to hold your place on this tour.\nThis is 50% refundable up till 30 days before tour commencement date.\nAfter this date it is non-refundable.\nIf government Covid restrictions prevent us from travelling to the workshops the tour will be cancelled and all money refunded. \nExact itinerary coming later this year. \nThis great value price includes \n\nAccommodation 5 nights in a well-appointed 3+ star hotel\n5 breakfasts\n5 gourmet lunches\n1 dinner with wine\nAll tuition for 8 workshops\n\nTO RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW PLEASE contact us first ( email: kate@frenchfusion.com\,au\, or call Kate on 0414358975 ) to check there is availability and then \nFILL OUT ONLINE BOOKING FORM & PAY DEPOSIT (payment details in booking form)\n\n\nYou will need to bring your own car or organise to travel in one with a friend. Our hotel is a 20 minute walk into central Castlemaine for sketching each day.\nArriving from interstate? we suggest you \n\nfly to Melbourne and hire a car at the airport to make the 1 and a 1/4 hour drive up to Castlemaine\nor fly in to Bendigo (Qantas) and either take the half hour train up to Castlemaine or hire a car in Bendigo\nor drive from for example: Sydney and overnight in Albury. The return trip book overnight in eg: Wagga\n\n \n\n\nAccommodation is in a historic pub with spacious rooms with own bathroom and acres of space to learn and sketch in.\nThere is a fireplace\, piano and bar and cosy comfortable couches to relax in. \nTHE FIRST PEOPLE TO BOOK WILL BE  ALLOCATED THE BIGGEST ROOMS FIRST. \n \nPLEASE NOTE: We will be working from and staying in our own private country hotel in Castlemaine.\n* There is not the option to book your own accommodation as we will be all staying together in the one hotel and we have negotiated a special group rate for everyone so that we can use all the hotel facilities and be comfortable working indoors if necessary. \nThe rooms are all different in size as it is an old house converted into a hotel.\nAll bedrooms are located upstairs with their own bathrooms.\nThey are all lovely comfortable rooms with spacious bathrooms.\nTHE FIRST PEOPLE TO BOOK WILL BE  ALLOCATED THE BIGGEST ROOMS FIRST. \n\n\nThere’s a fireplace and a glass of port for the evenings at our hotel  and delicious coffee and hot croissants for brekky each day. A simple lunch is provided daily along with one evening meal we will have together in a historic cafe downtown that is definitely worth a visit and a sketch! \nDown the road are fabulous things to visit and sketch that will keep you occupied well beyond the two workshop days if you so want. \nCastlemaine is a quirky artist-friendly township and was established in 1851 during the famous Victorian goldrush period and has many original buildings dating from around or soon after this period with wonderful mansions (eg Buda\, the Empyre\, the Imperial hotel etc)\, great cafes\, a church on every corner and lots of great shops to ferret in! \nA short walk from our hotel are:\n \n\nthe lovely Botanic gardens\nthe Historic Railway station\nJohnny Bakery – renowned for its gourmet food\nThe Old Castlemaine Gaol at the top of the hill is now owned by artist David Bromley and should be open by the time of our tour. The gaol is literally PACKED with artworks and homewares to comb through!\nthe bric-a-brac Old Restorers Barn\nthe marvellous Old Woollen Mill chimney to sketch\nThe Modern Art Gallery\nthe enormous Vintage Bazaar for those who want to sketch pregnant barbie dolls for instance?\n\n Each day after our Workshop and a quick lunch\, we will drive into town to do an afternoon sketch together somewhere and then you have free time to explore parts of Castlemaine. \nThe Weather in April is reasonably good: clear blue sunny skies usually. But if the weather turns we have our own indoor workshop space for daily lessons anyway. So all seasons are catered for. \n  \n\n PLEASE contact us first ( email: kate@frenchfusion.com\,au\, or call Kate on 0414358975 ) to check there is availability before filling out the form below. \nCOMPLETE YOUR ONLINE BOOKING FORM HERE\n\n\nWHAT YOU NEED TO BRING: \n\nPencil case\nBulldog clips for windy days to hold your pages down!\n1 x pack of Staedtler (cheap) watercolour pencils (about $15)\nPencil sharpener \nFine point-pencil (eg like a draftperson would use)\nEraser\nPosca white fine point pen from Officeworks (see picture)\nSmall glue stick\nSmall scissors\nBlack biro\nUniball pen (black from Officeworks)\nSmall plastic ruler (Officeworks)\nA sketch stool (I got mine: a Kid’s Camp Chair –  for $10 from KMart or BigW)\nSmall Water pot with a lid to use when out sketching (eg specimen jar at chemist)\n\nSketch journal: A4 size in LANDSCAPE approx: 200 gsm (no ring binder so you can sketch across the two pages  (NB: if you buy the kit below from Larry Post this will be included)\nYour watercolour kit. Do you have your own watercolour kit with paints\, palette\, brushes etc? If so\, then bring them along. (see below)*\n\n\n*If you DO NOT  have your own watercolour sketch kit with paints\, tin-palette and brush then the kit below is the BEST value anywhere on the globe to buy and set yourself up. It is from LARRY POST ART SUPPLIES in Sydney. \nThis suggested Sketch Watercolour Kit contains a quality sketch-book\, brush and watercolour paints.\nYou can bring your own set if you have one but be aware – a good kit is WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD! \nThe colours in this kit are based on WHITE NIGHTS artist quality watercolours and are great value watercolours for the adult beginner. We recommend full pans 2.5mL for your initial set-up then switch to 10mL tubes as you need to refill later on: \nThis kit contains everything you will need for the workshops plus a free paint palette & postage within Australia is included: \n– WHITE NIGHTS full pans x 12 (list below)\n– WHITE NIGHTS empty metal palette\n– UNI Air waterproof pen\n– HAND-BOOK Sketchbook  Journal A4 landscape about 200gsm in thickness\n– ROSEMARY & CO R10 synthetic size 8 travel brush\n– UNI Posca Pen White for creating highlights \nIf you would like to buy some or all of this kit click on this link and put in the quantity (just 1 for most of you) in every field if you want the lot and then place the order. Jenny will then post it out to you. \nIf worried you can call Jenny at Larry Post Art Supplies in Sydney on 02 8668 4247 to order this kit (total kit costs $136) and ask about the Kate Stedman’s Art Kit as it is a negotiated really good deal to get these quality materials all in one kit that will last you always. \n(WHITE NIGHTS colours: 253 Aureolin (Cobalt Yellow) 244 Indian Gold 405 Raw Sienna 408 Burnt Sienna 319 Carmine 302 Cadmium Red Light 324 Quinacridone Rose 511 Ultramarine Blue 532 Cobalt Azure Blue 508 Cobalt Blue 713 Emerald green 716 Sap Green) \n\n\n  \n 
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