Hamilton New Zealand Blooms Coastal 5 Day Painting Workshop
Price range: $500.00 through $2,950.00
Pay $500 deposit to secure your place with full payment due prior to the workshop or $2,950 (Australian dollars) upfront
Jacqueline’s HAMILTON NEW ZEALAND BLOOMS COASTAL 5 DAY Painting Workshop
Saturday November 29 to Wednesday Dec 3, 2025 inclusive
9-5.30pm daily Lunch, refreshments and cheese platter provided,
All art supplies supplied.
Max 12 students per workshop
HAMILTON NEW ZEALAND
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Blooms Coastal 5 day Painting Workshop
HAMILTON NEW ZEALAND
WITH JACQUELINE COATES
Saturday November 29 to Wednesday Dec 3, 2025
Join me for exploring Coastal themes and creating a collection of paintings in just 5 days inspired by a range of coastal landscapes from New Zealand, Australia, Italy and France. Explore easy to do painting Blooms Freestyle techniques that explore working in acrylics and also oils.
NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
DAY 1- PAINTING WARM UP
VENUE HAMILTON CAR CLUB, NEWSTEAD
Miles from the sea, our spacious painting venue is the perfect studio base to explore paint application and freestyle techniques. A suite of stunning photo references is supplied as inspiration for our paintings. There is loads of choice.
Warm up your painting skills and new tools to paint with in a series of 6 paintings in acrylics on canvas boards, with demonstrations taking students through a number of useful painting techniques, from learning the summer coastal colour palettes to blending, using a variety of tools to explore & capture coastal themes, how to paint clouds, water, pathways, flora and more.
A great warm up for our week as well as producing artworks to treasure.
Lunch, refreshments, & art supplies, included.
Includes 2 white picture frames for your favourite pieces.
DAY 2- PAINT AN ITALIAN COASTAL PAINTING
Paint two mid-size paintings today with a range of images to choose from. Today we are inspired by the Italian Riviera as we learn how to combine coastal structures with coastal water and vegetation for depth and interest for our first painting.
We also learn how to create a dusk colour palette over a coastline for painting no 2.
Everything you need is supplied! All you need to do is arrive and enjoy the painting process.
DAY 3- PAINT TWO MID SIZE PAINTINGS INCLUDING COASTAL FLORA, CLOUDS & COASTAL SUBJECTS AND ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES
Today, learn about oils, explore oil impasto and acrylic impasto in a series of mid size paintings. We explore coastal flora subject matter, including banksia and gum nuts, and how to paint clouds or paint from your photo reference from the previous day.
All equipment, art supplies and catering included.
DAY 4– MORNING SESSION PAINTING
Paint colourful beach boxes, adding to your coastal painting series.
Learn techniques to keep the painting fresh whilst capturing detail!
AFTERNOON SESSION After a delicious lunch, we start our big coastal painting and lay the foundations.
Today enjoy a morning session creating a beach box painting. After our lunch together, enjoy learning about how to use a variety of tools to get the foundations of your BIG COASTAL PAINTING down quickly. No drawing or painting skills required. This is so much fun and highly productive.
Full demonstrations and guidance from the colour palette for your painting, the supply of the subject matter and how to get those freed up marks, demonstration of alternate tools, layer of colour and tones, and building a rich surface in oils.
We will start the painting in the afternoon then continue it and finish it the next day.
Please advise of the largest painting size you can fit in your car face up – sizes options will be provided beforehand and supplied at the workshop. The largest size will be 36 x 4 inches or 90 x 120cm and there will be canvases of 30 x 40 inches.
DAY 5- Continue our BIG COASTAL PAINTING AND FOLLOWING THE DEMOS WITH JAC TO COMPLETE THE COASTAL MASTERPIECES! LUNCH OUT AND IN THE AFTERNOON FINISH THE LITTLE DETAILS ON THE BIG PAINTING. VARNISH ANY OTHER PIECES THAT ARE DRY. FINISH BY 5.00pm
Learn how to build your COASTAL painting and bring it to a finish with some clever NO FAIL techniques.
After lunch we take care of any little details and finishing touches including to our other works plus varnishing or framing.
Includes all art supplies, equipment, some brushes and tools to keep, palette, wipes, paper towel, catering and refreshments.
Accommodation students own to arrange if you need it.
I recommend Air Bnb as they have lots of choices or you may have a favourite
accommodation website.
Deposit required $650 pp with balance due by December 29th or pay in full $3450
MONTHLY PAY PLAN OFFER
This opportunity may not come round again and it’s a great way to get on top of the painting and enjoy a painting holiday at the same time.
If you’d like a pay plan of a deposit of $1950 followed by a monthly pay plan x 3 months at $500 per month from February – April, 2025 then please email jacquelinecoates1@gmail.com to arrange and confirm your place!
DON’T MISS OUT!
This opportunity may not come round again and it’s a great way to get on top of the painting and enjoy a painting holiday at the same time.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
Learn how to paint coastal scenes step-by-step, even if you’ve never painted before. Master paint handling techniques, including oils, oil impasto, and acrylics and acrylic impasto. Gain Freedom to create with confidence How to colour mix the Coastal Summer painting palettes Knowledge and experience of how to use alternative painting tools Create your own collection of beautiful artworks – from a series of 6 studies, a series of midsize paintings and a BIG Coastal Painting – all in 5 days Enjoy painting, experimenting and learning in our dedicated studio Learn how to paint coastal clouds, coastal flora, colourful beach boxes, a New Zealand coastal and an Italian Coastal inspired painting Feel supported in a warm and friendly environment with expert guidance, personalised assistance and breakthrough tips Curated inspiring photo references for the purpose of painting supplied throughout
Five days of hands-on painting tuition Art supplies inc all brushes and additional tools – Value $130 All canvas boards and canvases supplied & two frames Value approx $180 Catering for all lunches and refreshments All sessions designed to build your confidence and skills. Extra Blooms coastal references to keep and paint up from home.