WATERCOLOUR PORTRAIT FUNDAMENTALS | SHEREE DOHNT

Join professional watercolour artist, Sheree Dohnt, as she shares her process and top tips for painting portraits.

Exploring the technique she has been perfecting over the years Sheree simplifies the process to facilitate understanding and show you her secrets to be able to paint a beautiful face. 

During the workshop you will explore:

• Understanding volume - 3D Drawing

• How to depict light, shadow and volume over a face

• Ways to achieve fluid and transparent watercolour

Sat 28 Feb | 10am-4pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+

$135 | $121.50 MAC Inc. Members

Materials:

Please bring:   

·       Your own brushes - Flat 25mm and 50 mm (nylon); Round size 6,2,0 (nylon or natural hair); Mop brush size 2 (squirrel hair or imitation)

·       For taking notes, drafting - optional A5 or A4 watercolour or mixed media journal, minimum 200gsm sheets

·       Optional Winsor and Newton watercolour paints (Cotman or professional range): Burnt umber; Cobalt turquoise light Opera rose; Transparent yellow; Mars black; Dioxazine Violet

Supplied:

Sheet of Arches 300gsm cold press paper

Watercolour palette

Board to attach quarter sheet size paper to table easel

Paper towel, Pencil & Soft eraser

Blue 3m tape 36mm

Water buckets & Water spray

Winsor and Newton watercolour paints: Cobalt blue; Cadmium red; Cadmium orange; Alizarin crimson; Lemon yellow; Ultramarine blue; Paynes grey

Artist Bio:

Sheree Dohnt is a professional artist residing in Fremantle, who graduated from the University of Wollongong with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts) in 2011. Dohnt approaches the possibilities of portraiture with a process driven art practice, and as a negotiation between artist, subject, medium and viewer, in order to encapsulate the themes of identity, parenthood and womanhood. In 2025, Dohnt has been a finalist in the Mid-West Art prize and winner of the South Perth Emerging Artist Award in the Works on Paper category.