Jewellery Rendering Workshop: Gouache and Watercolours

Eleanor Clifford will guide you through every step of illustrating jewellery designs with gouache and watercolours in this one-day intensive hand-rendering workshop. You will learn about the brushes, paints, and other essential tools needed, gain skills, and learn illustrative techniques to create accurate and beautiful drawings to communicate your designs to your clients.See "What shall I bring?" below for details of paints and brushes to bring to the workshop. We will provide a list of supplier options when you book.What will I Learn?You will be producing a variety of step-by-step paintings to learn the techniques needed for jewellery rendering, exploring traditional gouache and watercolour painting techniques. This intensive day will cover a huge amount of topics, including learning to render:

• Opaque and translucent cabochons
• Faceted stones
• Small melee stones
• Precious metals

The final project will bring all these skills together to produce a finished jewellery rendering from a selection of designs. This will give you all the necessary tools to render your creations using this technique.What will happen on the day?This will be an intensive day of learning designed to guide you through every step of illustrating jewellery designs with gouache and watercolours. We’ll start by familiarising you with the art materials used in the course, ensuring you feel confident with the brushes and paints—no prior painting experience is required, as we'll cover all the basics.In the morning, we’ll focus on key projects that teach the techniques for rendering gemstones. We will then move on to rendering precious metals. You will then use all of these skills combined in a final exercise, where you'll select and render your complete jewellery design. You will be producing a variety of step-by-step paintings in order to learn the techniques needed for jewellery rendering, exploring traditional gouache and watercolour painting techniques. Read more details