Colour
Mix, compare and organise colour intentionally
Painting skills that reduce frustration
Paint behaves differently from a pencil. Children learn how much water or paint to use, how brushes create different marks, when to layer, and how colours influence one another. These practical foundations help ideas survive the journey from imagination to paper or canvas.
- Primary, secondary and complementary colours
- Tints, shades, warm and cool relationships
- Brush control and varied mark-making
- Layering, blending, opacity and transparency
- Planning a composition before adding detail
Projects across styles and subjects
Lessons may explore landscapes, portraits, animals, still life, abstract composition, illustration, or responses to artists. The subject provides motivation while the teacher keeps attention on the transferable skill inside the project.
- Watercolour exploration and controlled washes
- Opaque colour and layered painting
- Texture, pattern and mixed-media surfaces
- Expressive colour inspired by art history
- Personal themes and longer projects for older students
A private lesson leaves room for experimentation
Children vary in confidence, speed, and tolerance for uncertainty. The 1:1 format lets the teacher slow down a process, demonstrate a material again, suggest a bolder experiment, or help a student recover when a painting does not go as planned.
- Real-time material demonstrations
- Feedback on the student’s actual colour choices
- Alternative techniques when a process feels difficult
- Encouragement to revise rather than abandon work