Wednesday 14 August 2024

11:00am to 1:30pm

€50 per person

(Includes coffee and cake!)

In this month’s art workshop we will be looking to sunflowers for inspiration. Sunflowers are bursting into bloom in the month of August in Ireland with their unmistakable yellow petals that turn to follow the sun. Sunflowers are often used as a metaphor for happiness, success and long life. We will capture the vibrant yellows and lush green foliage of summer sunflowers, as we welcome budding artists to a creative watercolour art workshop at Glydewood, Castlebellingham.

Inspired by seasonal flora and the colours of late summer, join me for a morning of watercolour painting. We will have lots of fresh summer sunflowers for everyone to respond to, feel and observe for inspiration. I will help students to paint a loose floral watercolour art piece of ‘Summer Sunflowers.’

To start we will do an overview of the fundamentals of watercolour painting, including paper quality, brush types and painting techniques and everything you need to get started. After practising some different techniques, Caoimhe will do a step by step demonstration to get everyone started on their composition. She will take everyone through all the steps from composition, drawing, colour mixing and painting techniques.

This class is suitable for everyone from complete beginners to seasoned artists who just want be be in a creative space…. Perfect for taking some time out…

Caoimhe O’Dwyer is an award winning designer and an honours graduate of Ireland’s National College of Art and Design (NCAD). After studying fine art and design Caoimhe specialised in fashion design while completing her B. Des. She has studied in the Acadamia Koefia Di Alta Moda in Rome and has worked with acclaimed international designers in New York and Paris and Rome.
Caoimhe won the international Mittelmoda fashion award in 2004, which led to a commission as consultant to La Perla in Bologna, Italy in 2005. She established the Caoimhe O’Dwyer fashion label from her studios in Malahide, Co Dublin before moving to Castlebellingham with her family in 2008.