WATERCOLOR
WINTER
WEEKENDS

Two cozy weekend editions at Pinta Roxa,
right in downtown Olhão.

Warm afternoons, gentle light, and time to slow down — these winter weekends offer a calm, immersive approach to watercolor. Each edition includes two guided 4-hour sessions, designed to deepen your technique while keeping the atmosphere relaxed and inspiring.

Small groups of 4–6 participants allow for individual guidance and a focused, welcoming studio experience.

What We’ll Explore:

We begin by getting familiar with essential watercolor materials — paints, papers, and brushes — before moving into the core skills that bring the medium to life.

• Mixing colour with intention: understanding limited palettes, and how hue, value, and saturation shape every shade you mix.
• Luminosity & transparency: how to keep your colours vibrant, avoiding “pale” or “muddy” results.
• Brushwork & edges: exploring hard, soft, and dry edges through wet-in-wet and dry-in-wet techniques.
• Negative space & simplification: learning how few shapes you actually need to create atmosphere, contrast, and clarity.
• Confidence & looseness: practising the expressive, unpredictable beauty that makes watercolor so rewarding.

I’ll guide you step by step through the core watercolor techniques and compositional thinking. With practice and patience, you’ll discover how satisfying and expressive watercolor can be.
I’ll also teach you to love working with a big brush and using bold, confident strokes — so your paintings stay fresh, expressive, and not overworked!

I’m Grażyna Ostrowska, the person behind Lighthouse Artcourses – an artist living between light, colour, and the quiet rhythm of the Algarve. This place teaches you to slow down — to breathe with the tides, to notice how the day shifts, to find calm in small, steady moments.

My art grows out of that pace. It invites you to reconnect with your surroundings, to see beauty again, and to feel more grounded in a world that moves too fast. Creativity steadies us, makes us mindful, and gently reminds us to care for what we love.

When I paint, I find that same inner stillness. The more I follow the process, the more I reach a simple, honest space where real connection happens — with myself, with others, and with this coastline that keeps teaching me how to live.

If you’re curious to explore more of my painting practice, feel free to visit my artist website.

With finished painting series "A luz de Algarve"
October 2025