Intermediate Watercolor

Intermediate Watercolor

360 Online Class | This program is completed

Intermediate

9/16/2020-11/18/2020

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

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$490.00

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Work with increasingly complex subjects as you expand your understanding and dexterity with watercolor. Working from still lifes, landscapes, and photographs, you learn to individualize your painting process, better understand the variables of watercolor painting, use the variables to your creative advantage, and take informed risks. Students should have completed Beginning Watercolor or have basic watercolor experience.

  • Paper
  • I strongly recommend using a good quality rag paper, such as Arches, Lanaquarelle or Fabriano. 140 lb. is heavy enough (90 lb. buckles). We work mainly with cold-pressed and hot-pressed paper.
  • Paint
  • USE GOOD PAINT! Cheap paint works ok, but you’ll need so much more of it to get the saturation you see with good paint, that there is no savings, and the amount of binder that ends up on the paper can be shiny.
  • Palette: In general, it’s a good idea to have two (or more) reds, yellows, blues, and greens, plus a brown and a violet. The intense, transparent colors (alizarin crimson, quinacridones, phthalo green, phthalo blue) are very useful for mixing, even though you don’t see them much in nature. Earthier tones depend more on the locale. Here is a palette that works well for me (these are Daniel Smith Artists' Materials names):
  • • New gamboge
  • • Quinacridone gold*
  • • Hansa yellow light*
  • • Quinacridone red*
  • • Vermillion (or cadmium red scarlet)
  • • Alizarin crimson permanent
  • • Pyrol Orange
  • • Sap green*
  • • Rich green gold
  • • Ultramarine blue
  • • Cerulean blue
  • • Cobalt blue
  • • Phthalo blue*
  • • Indanthrone blue
  • • Transparent Pyrol orange
  • • Carbazole violet
  • You may want to start with fewer colors, in which case the starred colors are the essential ones.
  • Brushes
  • Part of the emphasis of the class involves keeping your paintings simple, so you won’t need tiny brushes. Well, maybe one. I use:
  • 3 flats, 1/2", 1" and 1 1/2"
  • 2 rounds, #30 (or the largest round you can find) and #14
  • liner
  • Miscellaneous
  • Lightweight board (masonite or gatorboard, 16" x 24")
  • Artist’s tape or acid-free black masking tape (blue painter’s tape is okay)
  • Water container for dipping brushes (yoghurt containers work)
  • Clean sponge (if you don’t have a brush big enough to wet a half sheet of paper)
  • Large palette (11" x 15" or so with large mixing areas and plenty of wells for your colors, such as Richeson or Robert Wood)
  • • Easel or table top. • Paper towels • microphone and camera enabled computer • ipad or smart tablet. • smart phone (android or IOS) • Strong internet connection • Excited Attitude!