Exploring Color with Water-Based Media

Adult Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome.

1/6/2020-3/9/2020

10:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT on Mon

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$245.00

$220.00

$15.00

Ink, watercolor, gouache: these three mediums are often linked together. How are they different? Learn to identify the properties of these exciting water-based mediums and how to combine them. By making your own color charts, abstract design explorations, and traditional still life paintings you will develop a strong understanding of color mixing and color strategies. Painting techniques including glazing, lifting, masking and wet into wet will be thoroughly investigated.

What will you learn in this workshop?

1 Gain confidence in working with mixed water-based mediums
2 A broader understanding of color mixing
3 Strengthen your painting skills and brushwork
4 Develop awareness of design and composition through color

  • This Monday class is eight sessions in order to accommodate the two holidays that occur during the winter term: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 20, and Presidents’ Day, February 17. The class will not be held on these days and there are no makeup sessions.
  • • Rags and Waterbucket
  • • Small round soft brush (#6)
  • • Medium round soft brush (#12)
  • • 1" Flat Brush
  • • Use quality Watercolor paper 140lb weight or heavier. Many people like using paper with a cold press finish. This can be either sheets or blocks
  • • HB pencil and sharpener
  • • Eraser
  • • Ruler
  • • Good quality watercolor paint either in tube form or pan form (Winsor Newton, Van Gogh, Holbien, Daniel Smith, Sennilier are all good brands).
  • • You do not need all of these colors. Just have at least two shades of Blue, Red and Yellow plus a brown and Green
  • • Recommended shades:
  • • Cobalt Blue, Cobalt Turqouise Light, Ultramarine Blue, Curelean
  • • Cadmium Red , Bright rose, Quinacridone Red, Alizarin Crimson
  • • Hansa Yellow Light, Auerolin Yellow, New Gamboge
  • • Burnt Seinna (brown), or Indian red(red brown)
  • • Viridian/ Pthalo Green
  • • Portable Watercolor Box or Paint mixing tray (this can be part of your paint set)
  • • Waterproof Black Drawing Ink
  • • Gouache
  • • Masking Fluid (optional)
  • • Sea Sponge (optional)
  • • Spray Bottle (optional)
  • • Painters tape
  • • Color wheel
  • • Gray Scale and Value Finder (some color wheels include this)

Amy Miller is a prolific artist and educator. She always sets her focus in art community, originally based in Philadelphia but recently relocated to the foothills of California. Teaching classes online is giving her the opportunity to stay connected with the Fleisher community that she misses and loves. Her evocative mixed-media works have been displayed in numerous solo and group exhibitions both regionally and nationally. Throughout her life she has delighted in a strong relationship with pictures. A direct vehicle for communication, they spark ideas, reveal information, and burn memories. She received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2001.