Colour Transparency x Art Mail with Peter McDonald

Description:

Join artist Peter McDonald for this Winsor & Newton Art Mail workshop, where you’ll explore layering colour using Winsor & Newton watercolour materials. Guided by Peter, you’ll learn how to create his signature transparent compositions inspired by everyday scenes, people, and places.

Once you’ve completed your postcard, simply scan the QR code to register your creation then pop it in the post to be featured in the Art Mail Global Gallery. Your artwork will be displayed online alongside postcards from artists around the world, including Peter.

Materials used:

Materials:
• Any Winsor and Newton
watercolour material
• Your art mail postcard
• A plain piece of paper
• A pen or a pencil
• A paint brush
• A pot of water

Peter Macdonald

Peter McDonald was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1973 and currently lives and works between London and Tokyo. McDonald’s paintings examine intricate aspects of human behaviour, gradually compiling an encyclopaedia of images and scenarios. His use of intense colour and universal subject matter describes a realm which balances lucid realism with vivid distortions, filled with references to modern life such as shopping, exercising and socialising in cafés. His pictures investigate pictorial space by playfully exploring perspective and form. This heightened sense of reality becomes a means through which the artist articulates experience and meaning.

Download the easy-to-follow workshop flash sheet to follow along with written instructions.

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