Design with Watercolor

Adult Summer Class | Registration opens Monday, May 4, 2026 8:00 AM EDT

All levels welcome, recommended for beginners.
6/18/2026-7/30/2026
9:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Th
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Design with Watercolor

Adult Summer Class | Registration opens Monday, May 4, 2026 8:00 AM EDT

Explore the principles of color, design, and composition while enhancing your technical familiarity with the mediums of watercolor and gouache in this foundation level class. We will relate design and compositional principles to representational and abstract picture making. We will work from still-life, photo, real space, and our sensibilities. Whether you are looking to strengthen the composition of your work through concepts such as harmony, rhythm, balance, dominance, and contrast, or gain practical experience manipulating aqueous mediums, this class is essential, especially for those who are looking to advance their artistic experience beyond drawing and into painting. The beginning of each class will feature the introduction of concepts and physical demonstrations. Then, you will work in class as the instructor discusses with you your work. In these talks, you will learn how to apply principles of design and techniques of painting to further your work.

What you will learn:
1. The ability to manipulate color and watercolor paint.
2. The ability to carry out a successful strategy throughout the process.
3. Learn the basic principles of two dimensional design.
4. Awareness of color interactions: harmony, saturation, and complementary

This is a four-session class. Class will not meet on Thursday, July 17.

  • • Watercolors, Tubes and/or Pans (they are interchangeable and inter-mixable) - basic set of 10 pan or tube “artist quality” colors is good
    • Recommended colors: Ultramarine Blue, Lemon Yellow, Permanent Rose, Viridian, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, and Pthalo Blue, Dioxazine Violet,Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Lamp Black, Chinese (Zinc) White
    • Optional colors: Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue, Aureolin Yellow

    • Watercolor brushes: 1) 3/4” and or 1”wash flat; 2) #10 round, and 3) either a #4 or #5 pointed round
    • Watercolor Paper: 11 x14 inches, or larger; cold press 140lb minimum (blocks or pads are good)
    • Watercolor palette with wells
    • Two containers for water
    • White eraser
    • Drawing pencil (HB or harder)
    • Clear plastic ruler
    • Xacto or Olfa snap-off knife
    • Masking tape removable (Blue)

    Recommended (optional) items:
    • Masking fluid
    • Gouache basic painting set. Same colors as above. Or, a basic set of ten colors.

Albert Fung

Albert Fung was born and raised in San Francisco. He earned his BFA in printmaking from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1992 and his MFA in painting and printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art in 1996. He paints in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastels; often in combination. He also makes prints in relief, intaglio, lithography, and ink jet. From 1993 to 2011, he made and exhibited his art in New York City. In addition, he printed limited edition lithographs and later digital photographs and editions for artists; later, he worked as an IT Director.

In 2003, he began practicing yoga, which through to today informs his spiritual and healing journey. In 2015 he gained his yoga teaching certification from Motherheart Yoga Sangha; and he has now taught yoga for over ten years. Yoga’s attitude of care and seeking has been a significant influence on his art teaching. In 2011, he moved to Philadelphia, where he continues to produce artwork.

He has exhibited widely, including at City Arts Salon; and he has taught at several art centers, including Fleisher, and universities, including Tyler School of Art, in the Philadelphia area. He is currently a Co Founder and Co-coordinator of Philly Crit; and he is a member of the Art Advisory Committee of In Liquid.

His work may be seen at alfung.com