Wednesdays, June 21, 28, July 5, 12
4:30 - 5:30pm
Live on Zoom & Recorded
$100 per person
In this supplementary course we will review everything you need to know (and probably learned at one point) about painting in watercolor. This course is designed to answer the most asked questions by our students with applicable solutions. Recorded live on Zoom in a four-class series we will refresh students on the basics while advancing their practical knowledge of the subjects.
We will start the class with soup to nuts information demonstrated in concise exercises. In the second part we will process these concepts by applying them to a painting.
We recommend this course to all watercolorists, especially students in our current studio classes to enhance their learning experience. Suitable for all experience levels.
Class 1
Soup to nuts: Let’s talk about taping techniques, paper poundage, paper texture, and paper quality.
Application: Advancing Your Basic Washes with Mood & Landscape
Class 2, Part 1:
Soup to nuts: Let’s talk color temperature (understanding cool & warm in warm & cool colors). Mirroring the sky in water. Colors that come forward and recede. Reviewing primary, secondary, tertiary, and complementary colors. Tone matching.
Application: Advancing Color Mixing with the Vortex of Light
Class 3
Soup to nuts: What’s a blossom and why did it happen to me!? Utilizing blossoms to your advantage. Understanding translucency “The white of the page is the light of the page” and opaque paint. When to use heavy pigment and texture versus wet-on-wet. How and when to “lift” your paint, fixing mistakes vs. technique.
Application: Creating volume with value and variation, painting negative spaces and practicing clouds.
Class 4, Part 1:
Soup to Nuts: Let’s talk masking review tape versus liquid, when to mask and when to paint-around. Brush update, synthetic, natural, mix, and cheap versus pricey, when to use each and why.
Application: Unifying your paintings while practicing trees and textures.