August Beginner Watercolour Course (4 Weeks)

Book your spot for our 4 week course in August.

Have you always wanted to try watercolour but weren’t sure where to start? My 4-week beginner-friendly course is designed to guide you through the fundamentals of watercolour painting, helping you build confidence and develop essential techniques in a supportive and relaxed setting.

Course Details:
Where: Rondebosch, Cape Town (venue confirmation shared once bookings confirmed) 
When: Either Friday mornings, or Saturday mornings, from 09:30 to 11:30
Duration: 4 weeks (4 x 2-hour sessions)
Fee: R1500 (includes professional-quality watercolour paper & a pipette for controlled water application)

What You’ll Learn:
✅ The essentials of watercolour: understanding water-to-paint ratios, transparency, and layering
✅ Brush techniques to create soft blends, crisp edges, and expressive strokes
✅ Colour mixing and practical exercises to create beautiful, harmonious palettes
✅ Guided projects to reinforce skills while creating your own artwork

This is a hands-on, structured course with plenty of guidance, making it perfect for absolute beginners. Each session is designed to build on the previous one, ensuring steady progress. Plus, you’ll have access to online tutorials for recap or in case you miss a class.

Add-On Kit (Optional):
For those wanting the full experience, I offer an optional add-on kit with everything you need to get started:
🎨 Prime Art Iris 18-set (12ml tubes)
🎨 Folding palette
🖌 Prime Art Gold Size 4 round brush
🖌 Prime Art Gold Size 8 round brush

You’re also welcome to bring your own paints and brushes if you prefer! If during the course you wish to purchase the add-on set, this is also possible.

Course Schedule:

This course runs for four consecutive weeks on the following dates, choosing between the Friday or Saturday group:

Friday group:

Week 1: Friday, 8 August, 09:30 to 11:30
Week 2: Friday, 15 August, 09:30 to 11:30
Week 3: Friday, 22 August, 09:30 to 11:30
Week 4: Friday, 29 August, 09:30 to 11:30

Saturday group:

Week 1: Saturday, 9 August, 09:30 to 11:30
Week 2: Saturday, 16 August, 09:30 to 11:30
Week 3: Saturday, 23 August, 09:30 to 11:30
Week 4: Saturday, 30 August, 09:30 to 11:30

Terms & conditions with regards missed sessions.

As materials, resources and time are allocated to your booking, as well as the space provisioned for which could hinder an alternate booking, we will not accept cancellation refund requests within 7 days of the session unless a replacement can be found in time. Cancellation made 7 or more days prior the session will be credited towards a future equivalent session if applicable (medical/family emergency etc). When you are enrolled in a 4 week block, or other ongoing session, depending on circumstances you may be able to be accommodated in a catch up session if there is one planned in the calendar, otherwise the portion allocated to that session will be forfeited. Beginner classes do have video catch ups made available after each session. Any resource material will be provided to you digitally for you to complete the project in your time. Concessions may be considered for extenuating circumstances, at the discretion of Hey Sweet Art.