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In this workshop, you'll be introduced to all the fundamental techniques that will enable you to make successful watercolor paintings. You will learn about washes, wet into wet, creating textures, controling edges, drawing a watercolor composition with a grid, FIXING MISTAKES, avoiding muddy colors, color mixing and my favorite recipes, painting rainbow washes, glazing and much more. Each technique will be recorded in your own personal watercolor guide book, so you have something to refer to when you return home and want to paint. In the last hour of class you will create a small painting of your own choice of subject matter using the Watercolor Fun-da-mentals.
Supply List:
--An empty cottage cheese size container & an empty yogurt size container
--A roll of toilet paper, henceforth known as Artists tissue
--A 2B or HB pencil
--A soft white eraser, that won’t destroy your watercolor paper, Factis makes a good one
--A ruler
--A few 4x 6 photos of fairly simple subject matter that you would like to paint, (houses, cottages and buildings are nice to start with
--A Nexus or Micron or any brand of waterproof pen in your choice of color and tip size
--A 9 x12 pad of Arches 140 lb cold press watercolor paper or you can buy sheets and cut them to approx 9x12
--A #6 round brush(Robert Simmons Saphire is good, a ¼” flat brush (Winsor Newton Septre Gold is good), and a #10 round brush(Lowell Cornell’s black round brush with the red stripe on the tip is good). All Utretch series #228 brushes are good and reasonably priced too.
--A palette with enough room to mix paint on. You can get a Robert Wood rectangle palette or a small folding palette or a metal palette, whatever you like.
--Paints: either get a Cotman travel set which has all the colors you need, or buy Cotman tubes. If you are serious about watercolor buy either Winsor Newton Artist paints, Daniel Smith or Holbein brands in the following colors:
Permanent Rose
Scarlet Lake
Lemon yellow
Sap Green
Thalo blue
Cobalt blue
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean (nice, but optional)
Yellow ochre
Dioxine violet or Winsor violet
Burnt Sienna
--A piece of foam core board or a clip board and some small clips to clip your paper down to the board--Scotch drafting tape works well.
--A hole punch and a notebook to put your exercises in to make a reference guidebook
--Your sense of humor to laugh at my jokes
--Chocolate (optional)
CLOSED - CLASS FULL
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