
3 November Weekends: Mix Match Fly Watercolour Course
Mix, Match, Fly
November 2021
Three weekends in November: uncover the secrets behind great colour mixes, decipher the formula for impactful colour matches, let your creativity fly painting colourful burds.
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Course Info
Three Modules: One big experience
Dive into a deep watercolour experience. During the three weekend sessions, you will learn about colours and how to use them to illustrate and create abstract compositions. You will leave each session with new skills to enhance your watercolour creations.
For all colour fans
What colours can you mix to achieve the impact you am looking for? Have you ever wondered why some colours always go well together? Why do sometimes mixed colours end up in mud? If you ever had these questions, this watercolour course is for you.
Colour is a language, and as in most cases, you need to learn it to speak it. Let us guide you in your colour journey.
In “Eventually Everything Mixes”, Ame Binnara Kim will take you through the basics behind how colours are mixed, exploring colour types and mixes.
in “The Impact of Colour”, Andrea Figari will guide you to an extensive exploration of colour combination options to expand your colourful visual language. We will focusing on creating contrasts to achieve impact and covering several templates to create your own memorable colour combinations. This module will take inspiration from the colour teachings from the Bauhaus school of design, where masters like Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Vassily Kandinsky and Gunta Stölzl used colour to express trailblazing imagery.
In “Fly like a Bird”, Yves Kervoelen will use the previous colour mixing and matching skills to teach you how to illustrate birds, as an exercise to see how an impactful colour mix can translate into your work.
Recommended Materials & Tools
You need only basic materials to participate. A well sorted colour palette, a couple of brushes and watercolour paper. You will find the recommended materials in each course.
You can also find limited edition Schmincke Watercolour palettes and watercolour sketchbooks in the GardeniaFair Etsy Shop
Online, live and direct
The “Mix, Match and Fly” watercolour course will take place using a live conference platform. Nothing to install, to download or register. Just click and we will be there.
The three workshops will cover 15 hours of live classes by the artists. We always have a pre-workshop technical session to help you set up your audio and video, so you can make the best out of your actual class.
During the course the Ame, Andrea and Yves will be sharing, painting and chatting live with you. You will have full access to them and be able to shar your work, get quick feedback and encouragement.
Practical Notes
You will also receive a set of notes, handbook or workbook tailored to each workshop, with a summary of the contents, some exercises to help you further explore after the workshop has ended.
Feedback
If you want to have a one-to-one feedback session or wish to have a more detailed question and answer session with any of the workshop artists, you can book this separately in each event.
Online, live and direct access
All You Need is a Phone, Tablet, or Laptop
No need to download any software, or register in any website. We send you a link, you click it and you are in.
Basic & recommended materials
Come with what you have. A basic 12 watercolour palette, a couple of brushes and watercolour paper will do the job in most cases. However, if you would like to explore colour in more depth, each artist provides a list of recommended materials for each of their workshops
Learn live session, practice later
We will do basic exercises while online. However, because watercolour painting often means painting and waiting to dry before continuing, we will also give you exercises to work at home on your own time.
Direct access to the artists
Make the most of this direct contact to ask questions about your own colour choices. The artists will be there for you during the live sessions to help you master colour to help you express what you want in your paintings.
Single Session
Just one session- One live session with the artist.
- Total of 2.5 hours session
- Questions and Answers live
- Individual Feedback can be booked separately
Mix, Match, Fly. Super Workshop Bundle
6 Sessions, 3 workshops- Three workshops, total of 15 hours
- Workshop on 6. and 7 November “Eventually Everything Mixes” with Ame Binnara Kim. Learn More
- Workshop on 13. and 14. November “The Impact of Colour” with Andrea Figari. Learn More
- Workshop on 20. and 21. November “Fly like a Bird” with Yves Kervoelen. Learn More
Single Workshop
Two sessions per event- Two live sessions, total of 5 hours
- Live demonstrations with the artist
- Questions and Answers live
- Individual feedback with the artist can be booked separately
Hourly Schedule
Saturday 6 November
- 18:00 - 20:30
- Mixing Colours
- Learning your tools and colours. Mixing colour triads.
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Speakers:
Amé Binnarä Kim
Sunday 7 November
- 18:00 - 20:30
- More Colour Mixing
- Secondaries and Convenient Mixes. Painting Cats
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Speakers:
Amé Binnarä Kim
Saturday 13 November
- 18:00 - 20:30
- How to create impact with colours?
- Bauhaus and colours. Contrasts, Textures. Colour matching possibilities. How did the masters do it? How can you do it?
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Speakers:
Andrea Figari Printmaker
Sunday 14 November
- 18:00 - 20:30
- Deep Colour Dive: in depth matching
- Creating balance (or disbalance) in figures and in abstracts.
Saturday 20 November
- 18:00 - 20:30
- Paint a Cockatoo and a Lilac Breasted Roller
- Paint a Cockatoo and a Lilac Breasted Roller
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Speakers:
Yves Kervoelen
Sunday 21 November
- 18:00 - 20:30
- Paint a Cockatoo and a Lilac Breasted Roller
- Paint a Cockatoo and a Lilac Breasted Roller
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Speakers:
Yves Kervoelen



Speakers
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Amé Binnarä KimPainter, Paintmaker, Illustrator
Hello, I am Amé Binnarä Kim.
I draw, paint, print, make paints.
I run two businesses that are called “Eventually, Everything Mixes!”(EEM) and KATZEKOTZE. With EEM, I have been offering vegan/cruelty-free watercolour paints and workshops since 2018. In 2019, I launched my self-publishing label KATZEKOTZE for my comics and zines. -
Andrea from GardeniaFairPainter, Photographer, Printer, Psychogeographer
Andrea Figari is a Berlin-based visual artist using watercolour, photography, screen, and lino printing and bookbinding as part of her creative practice.
Member of Drucksalon Atelier in Berlin, unfolding her creativity and creating with lino print and screenprinting.
Andrea explores colours and their interactions. Her fascination for colours has also sparked her interest in producing handmade watercolours using pigments and gum arabic. She hopes to bring these colours as a collection to a wider public soon.
Her work on photography has taken her to found PhotoDérive, an exploration of urban space through psychogeography. You can learn more at https://www.photoderive.org. Andrea has been the organiser of the Berlin Fotomarathon since 2006, offering hundreds of photographers the chance to discover the city. You can learn more at https://www.fotomarathon.de.
Within the creative community in Berlin, Andrea is part of the Berlin Kreativ Kollektiv -an initiative to promote local artists, creators, and local businesses. https://www.berlinkreativkollektiv.com -
Yves KervoelenIllustrator, Architect, Painter
Yves Kervoelen is an editorial and commercial illustrator based in Berlin, Germany — a chocolate addict and a former architect. You can find him, on weekends, at local markets (see below). When not outside, Yves can be found at home doodling, painting, knitting, or baking. Or outside, happily swinging in a park or by the riverbed.
Yves is also the founder of Handmade Berlin, a community to support artists in Berlin. More at https://www.instagram.com/handmadeBerlin