Portraits in Watercolor

Portraits in Watercolor

Class | This program is completed

1501 10th Ave East Seattle, WA 98102 United States

TBD

All Levels

1/13/2020-3/16/2020

1:30 PM-4:30 PM PDT on Mon

$490.00

$441.00

$10.00

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Experimenting with traditional watercolor techniques including various washes, glazes, and scumbles, you will stretch the boundaries and experiment with looser approaches and different color palettes for flesh tones. Studying from a live model, you will focus on head, facial structures, and proportion and emphasize the economy of line. You will capture the essentials of the human face with simple contours, but without shading or value, allowing the watercolor to build the volume and structure of the head and face and render the values.

  • Watercolor portrait supply List
  • Paper
  • • Watercolor Paper Block, 140lb (300gsm), about 11”x14”, Cold Pressed
  • • Drawing pad, pencil/charcoal - for sketches and research and studies
  • Paint
  • Minimum requirement; Alizarin Crimson, burnt orange, Payne’s gray, ultramarine, purple
  • Recommended; reds, yellows, greens, blues, violets
  • Additional colors are always good to have.
  • Palette
  • A large one with many wells and large mixing areas, the dinky little ones don’t work
  • Brushes
  • Flats, 1”, ½”, 3/8”, 1/4”
  • Rounds various sizes
  • This is the minimum Additional brushes are good to have
  • other stuff
  • Container for water
  • Paper towels
  • Suggested books:
  • There are many books on the market. A couple of my favorites are;
  • • The Arts of David Levine
  • • Painting People in Watercolor, A Design Approach by Alex powers
  • • Drawing the Human Head by Burne Hogarth