A 6-Session Course for BeginnersWeekend Watercolour Classes in Edinburgh
No experience needed.
Six relaxed sessions to explore watercolour, observation, colour and your own creativity.
6 Sessions · Small Group · Beginner Friendly · All Materials Included
What You’ll Explore
A Different Kind of Watercolour Class Over six sessions, you’ll explore:
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Water & Colour
Learn how water and pigment work together through washes, transparency and colour mixing.02
Flowers: Observation & Layers
Paint from real flowers and explore shape, overlapping forms and layered colour.
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Food: Line & Texture
Combine expressive drawing with watercolour to capture texture, detail and character.04
Glass & Transparency
Explore reflections, highlights and negative space through transparent objects.
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Sky: Light & Atmosphere
Explore wet-on-wet techniques, soft colour transitions and layered washes to capture changing skies, light and atmosphere.06
Sky: Architecture: Line & Perspective
Learn to simplify architectural forms, explore basic perspective and combine expressive linework with watercolour washes.What’s Included
Everything is ready when you arrive.
Your 6-session course includes guided demonstrations, individual support, weekly painting exercises, artist references, a relaxed small-group environment and all watercolour materials.
Just arrive and paint.
Who Is This Course For?
You don’t need to think of yourself as an artist.
This course is for people who have always wanted to try watercolour, haven’t painted since school, already paint but want more structure, enjoy art and culture, or simply want a creative reason to slow down at the weekend.
Complete beginners are very welcome.
Meet Your Tutor
Yuki
Yuki is an artist and designer with a focus on watercolor, oil painting, sketching, Chinese traditional painting, and graphic design. Holding an MA in Graphic Design from the University of Edinburgh, Yuki’s contemporary practice has been widely acclaimed on the international stage, featuring as a Winner of the Delphian Open Call 2025 and a Finalist for the 14th Prisma Art Prize (Rome), alongside multiple longlist recognitions for the Homies Art Prize and the Women in Art Emerging Artist Prize.
Choose Your Class
Friday Group
23 October – 4 December 2026
5:30pm – 7:00pm
6 sessions
（No class on 6 November）Saturday Group
24 October – 5 December 2026
10:30am – 12:30pm
6 sessions
（No class on 7 November）Venue
Silvan House, Edinburgh EH12 7AT
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There’s more than one way to enjoy watercolour.
Watercolour & Wellbeing
No rules. No pressure. Just colour.
A slower, playful watercolour session exploring flowing pigment, salt, water, texture and unexpected marks.
There’s nothing you need to paint “correctly”.
Experiment, watch colours move and make something entirely your own.
Single Session · Beginner Friendly · Materials Included
Frequently Asked Questions
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Not at all.
The course is beginner-friendly and everything is introduced step by step. If you haven’t painted since school, you’ll be absolutely fine.
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No.
This course focuses much more on colour, observation and enjoyment than perfect drawing.
You don’t need to be able to draw realistically to make a beautiful painting.
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We take painting seriously — but not ourselves.
You’ll learn real ideas and techniques from painting and art history, but the atmosphere is relaxed, friendly and enjoyable.
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You’re very welcome.
The exercises are open enough for more experienced painters to interpret them in their own way.
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Yes — all the materials you need are included in the course fee.
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Something comfortable that you don’t mind getting a little paint on.
We’ll take care of the rest.