Introduction to Watercolor (Five-day Immersive)

Adult Summer Workshop | This program is completed

All levels welcome.

7/8/2019-7/12/2019

10:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri

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$155.00

$135.00

$15.00

This workshop serves as both an introduction and exploration of watercolor. Learn useful techniques like wet-in-wet, washes and drybrush as well as experimental methods for creating texture. Knowledge of drawing is helpful but not required. Work from photos, still life, and sketches to plan and create your own watercolor paintings while learning or reviewing design principles. Beginners will gain basic skills and knowledge of watercolor and intermediate and advanced students will have the opportunity to review techniques and explore a personal approach to watercolor painting.


WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE
1. Color layering
2. Basic techniques like washes, wet-in-wet, drybrush
3. Experimental methods for creating texture (sponging, scraping, spattering)
4. Basic design principles (emphasis, balance, unity)

  • FOR THE FIRST CLASS BRING THESE SUPPLIES:
  • • Pencils: 2B, 2H
  • • Kneaded eraser
  • • Paper towels or rags
  • • Mixing dish/dishes or palette
  • • 2 or more water containers
  • • Sketchbook or sketch paper
  • • Natural sponge (optional)
  • • Liquid masking fluid (optional)
  • • Plastic spray bottle (optional)
  • • India Ink and bamboo brush (optional)
  • • Watercolor brushes: round tip - #4 and #10 1-inch flat brush
  • • Watercolor paper: block or individual sheets –140lb cold pressed
  • • Watercolor paint (in tubes or pans): a few suggested brands – Blick, Utrecht, Winsor & Newton and Rembrandt Watercolors.
  • For beginners or students who wish to use a limited palette:
  • Lemon yellow or Winsor Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Permanent Rose, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue
  • For advanced students and/or colors that can be added later:
  • Cadmium Red or Cadmium Scarlet, Cerulean Blue, Cadmium Orange, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Viridian Green, Payne’s Gray