Beyond Watercolor: Painting with Water-Based Media
Adult Summer Class | This program is completed
Would you like to further your experiment with watercolor painting? In this class, we will explore a wide range of traditional and contemporary techniques using ink, gouache, and pastel with your watercolors! Working from still life and masterworks you will use combinations of these mediums to achieve greater precision, depth, volume, and expressive possibility. Instructor demonstrations and visual presentations of others’ work will complement this hands-on class.
What you will learn:
1. How to use various mediums in combination to enhance precision, depth, volume, chromatic variation,
and expressive possibility
2. How mediums interact and how to combine or modify them to achieve the desired result
3. Learning through examples of others’ work
You can have a rich and rewarding class using simply a basic watercolor set and some pastels. Having said that, there are limitless possibilities you are invited to explore. The supply list below indicates that possibility. Each student’s experience will be tailored to what they bring and what they want to do. We will make whatever you bring work; this class is all about resourcefulness.
Watercolors:
• Tubes and/or pans (they are interchangeable and inter-mixable). If you do not have any, begin with a basic set of (approximately) ten colors. If you have some colors, supplement the colors you have so that you have a white, a magenta, a red, an orange, a yellow, a green, a cyan, a blue, a violet, and a brown.
• Recommended colors: Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Viridian, Dioxazine Violet, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Lamp Black, Chinese (Zinc) White.
Brushes:
• Minimum: 3/4-in wash flat, #10 round, #5 pointed round.
• Optional applicators: more brushes, sponges, dip pen, reed pen, painting knife, toothbrush, spray bottle, squeegee...
Supports:
• Watercolor paper - 90lb minimum/140lb recommended. Cold press (for a start). 11”x14” or larger. Blocks or pads are good.
• Optional: cover stock, mounting paper in stretchers, wooden panels, and (fine-grained) canvas. Some alternative supports will require PVA size, Golden Absorbent Ground and/or Fine Pumice Gel.
Dry materials:
• Please select a few or many of the following: graphite pencils, pastel pencils, pastel crayons, Conté pencils/crayons, charcoal (compressed, vine, powdered, etc.), Lyra Aquacolor (or similar) water-soluble pencils/crayons...
Liquid materials:
• Please select a few or many: India Ink (waterproof), colored inks, gouache, acrylic paints, Golden Absorbent Ground, Golden Fine Pumice Gel, coffee…
Mixing & Cleaning:
• Paper towels and/or rags
• Mixing tray
• 2 jars for water
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