Warburton Classes | Crystal Tan Art

A Floral Weekend
16 and 17 August 2025

Starting Saturday afternoon, and ending Sunday evening, attend 1, 2 or all 3 of these project based 3hr watercolour workshops where we will focus our brushstrokes, techniques and skills to create these 3 different flowers themes.

Our venue is the warm and cozy Wellspring Warburton, right in my town of Warburton, in the Upper Yarra Valley, 80km east of Melbourne. With plenty of cafes and walks and places to visit nearby, make this a weekend art retreat for you and friends!

These workshops are beginner friendly as well as the intermediate painter who paints in other mediums and want to learn this new style of painting. Take home your very own pieces of art to hang on your wall or gift to loved ones and friends.

Venue: Wellspring Warburton, 3424 Warburton Highway

AUD$120 per workshop

10% discount if you purchase all 3 workshops

Discount will be automatically applied when you checkout all 3 workshops in my shop

All materials provided but you're welcome to bring your own paints and brushes if you have favourite!

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Sat, 16 Aug, 1pm - 4pm - Fluffy Peonies

Sun 17 Aug, Sun 10am - 1pm - Aussie Natives

Sun 17 Aug, Sun 2pm- 5pm - Vintage Roses

Please read class descriptions for each of the workshop below...

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Sat, 16 Aug, 1pm - 4pm

Fluffy Peonies

In this class, we learn to paint large fluffy peonies in my loose effortless watercolour style. We study and sketch peonies to understand their form and structure, practice brush strokes

required to paint these beautiful large fluffy blooms, Cover classic composition for peonies, and how to create flow and movement. We will do some colour mixing to discover the pinks and greens we need for our peonies. We may even use some liquid watercolour here!

And finally, We will create one small and one larger peony painting using professional grade 100% watercolour paper for you to take home, frame, gift and enjoy!

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Sun 17 Aug, 10am - 1pm

Aussie Natives

In this class, we celebrate the beauty of our unique and special Australian native flowers, the Golden Wattle (these should be blooming during the time in our workshop!), the Waratah & Eucalyptus Gum flowers.

Using a variety of brushes, we will learn the brush strokes required of each of these unique flowers

We will look at our colours and mix out all the beautiful yellows, reds and greens we will use for these 3 lovely flowers

After practicing and warm ups, we will these 3 flowers on professional grade 100% cotton watercolour paper to make a beautiful Aussie Native Collection you can take home.

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Sun, 17 Aug, 2pm - 5pm

Vintage Roses

In this class, we will immerse ourselves in vintage floral inspiration, and then paint them in an effortless loose watercolour style.

We will then study a rose formation and do some simple sketching of roses to understand the formation and structure of the rose.

We will practice all the brush strokes to create a loose watercolour rose as well as the rose leaves, stems and branches.

We will explore all the different shades of the roses and what colours we can mix in our palette to paint a contrasting range of roses with depth and dimension.

We will go through different rose compositions and prepare for our main rose painting projects

Finally, we will paint one, maybe 2 Rose paintings with professional grade 100% cotton watercolour paper to take home with us.

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5week

5 Week Course

Thursday Mornings - 7 Aug to 4 Sep 2025

After a lovely weekly weekday class here in Warburton, we are coming back with another course of 5 classes. This time on a Thursday morning for those of you who missed out because you couldn't make a Friday. And if you have taken ANY class with me before, you get $50 off the course fees!

In this immersive and comprehensive course, we will discover the magical therapeutic qualities of watercolour by creating painting beautiful inspiring flowers right here in this most inspiring beautiful town of Warburton, right on the river's edge in the heart of town. Over the course of 10 hours we will cover:

- Understand all about our supplies and materials and how to use and take care of them.

- Practice brushstrokes required for floral painting

- Learn water 'control' and colour mixing.

- Understand how to achieve depth and interest with values.

- Learn key watercolour techniques and uncover the stunning effects of watercolour.

-Understand basic floral composition principles.

-Paint all the basic flowers as single stalks, in loose bouquets and more.

- Flowers we will paint : Roses, Poppies, Daisies, Zinnias, Dahlias, Tulips, Hydrangeas and more!

These workshops are beginner friendly as well as the intermediate painter who dabbles in other mediums and want to learn this new style of painting. Take home your very own pieces of art to hang on your wall or gift to loved ones and friends.

Thursday Mornings: 7 Aug -4 Sep 2025 (5 weeks)

10am to 12pm

New Students: $300

"Old" Students: $250

(For anyone who has taken any workshop / course with me in the past. We will paint new projects / flowers from previous courses! Email me for the discount code!)

Venue: Wellspring Warburton, 3424 Warburton Highway

Optional Materials to purchase $75

(See below for the whole list of materials included in the $75, and for you to get your own if you prefer)

Biscuits and tea provided.

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Workshop cancellation policy:
If you give more than 10 days notice prior to commencement of the workshop or course, you may receive a full refund for your course fee. Cancellations between 3-10 days from the workshop date will not receive a refund, but you may reschedule for a future date (to the value of your course fee). Cancellations less than three days from the start date will not be refunded. Your purchase is in acceptance of these terms.

Materials list for the 10hr watercolour course

If you opt for the supplies, here's what I will be providing.

If you are bringing your own, this is a good list of what you may/will need:

Paint & Palette

A full plastic palette of professional grade paints (Holbein) in these 10 colours (At least 3ml or a 'half pan' of paint for each colour) - worth $30:

- Lemon Yellow (Or Cad Yellow)

- Scarlet Lake

- Quin Red (Or Perm Rose)

- Opera Pink

- Mineral or Perm Violet

- Turquoise

- Prussian Blue

- Sap Green

- Burnt Umber

- Sepia

*Note that if you chose to come with student grade paints (i.e. cotmans, reeves, montmarte etc), the results won't be as vibrant and bright as professional grade.

Paper

1 x pad of A4 Montmarte practice cellulose paper (15 sheets) - $12

1 x pad of Meeden 10x7inches 100% cotton paper (20 sheets) - $18

Brushes

1 x size 10 round Princeton (Heritage or Velvet touch) Brush ($15)

I purchase my paint and brushes from the Art Shop in Bayswater.

Montmarte paper from any discount art supplies store around australia or online here.

Meeden paper online at here - Use code Crystal15 for 15% off any meeden products!