“The basis of artistic creation is not what is,
but what might be; not the real, but the possible.

Rudolf Steiner, in The Aesthetics of Goethe’s Worldview

 

A beginner’s guide to wet-on-dry painting

With artist Fiona Campbell

 

This online workshop introduces the foundations of the wet-on-dry watercolour technique in all its variations, from classic veiling to more flexible layering and blending. 

The workshop will be recorded and available for six months. 

Why use this technique?

The workshop also covers why we use it in the anthroposophical approach to painting, including its effect on the painter and viewer and its applications in difference contexts, such as art therapy, meditation, Steiner school curriculum, lazure wall painting and general artistic work. 

Fiona provides a wealth of professional and teaching practice with this special ist watercolour approach, including 35 years as a professional artist, 10 years art therapy practice and 12 years as a lazure/mural artist. She draws on Rudolf Steiner’s Colour lectures, his ‘portfolio’ of training sketches for artists and his numerous references to the role of art and the task of the modern artist. 

We will cover:

• Materials required for this technique
• The basic wet-on-dry technique
• Forming from positive and negative space
• Blending, intensifying, enhancing
• How form arises out of colour
• Soul/spiritual indications
• Different applications for different contexts e.g. therapeutic applications, artistic approaches

When

Friday 28 April, 2023 at 12.00pm AEST

Cost

$65 includes video recording 

How to register 

Registrations closed. Video recording of the workshop available for $65

For more information

Please contact Fiona Campbell 

 

About the presenter

Fiona Campbell PhD is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She does interdisciplinary research on phenomenology, creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 30 years. 

She is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where her focus is phenomenology and is creative consultant for the multimedia Parsifal Project. She is also teaches research methods and consciousness studies in Masters and post graduate trainings. 

Fiona has been involved with Anthroposophy for over 40 years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about the core principles and practice of Steiner’s work to her classes. You can find out more about her, read about her lecturing work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College (where she has regularly taught since 1994) or listen to an 2021 ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

 

 

Examples of the range of wet-on-dry techniques 

 

 

 

 

^{Photo credits: courtesy of Fiona Campbell}