Beginning Watercolor Landscape
Weekend Workshop | Available
This workshop is for students who have little or no experience with watercolor, but are excited to learn! Students will be guided through steps to set-up a palette, explore the use of different brushes, discover hot and cold press paper, and practice a variety of skills to become comfortable with paint application. We will practice washes, working wet-into-wet, building layers and controlling water. Participants will also learn foundations of color mixing using transparent, staining and opaque pigments. Following instruction in foundation skills, participants will learn steps to creating strong landscape compositions including thumbnail sketches, value studies and color swatches. Students are invited to bring several personal landscape photos for inspiration.
Instruction Medium: Watercolor
Daniel Smith Watercolor Pigments
- Aureolin or Hansa Yellow Lt
- Naples Yellow
- New Gamboge
- Transparent Pyrrol Orange
- Cadmium Red Med
- Permanent Alizarin Crimson
- Cobalt Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Phthalo Blue (GS)
- Carbazole Violet
- Quinacridone Gold
- Quinacridone Burnt Orange
- Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet
- Burnt Sienna
- Burnt Umber
Additional Pigments
- Rose Madder Genuine (Windsor Newton)
Brushes
- Round: Silver Black Velvet Series (#6, #12)
- Flat Wash: 1/2,” 1” and 2”
- Angle: 1” and 1.5”
Other Supplies
- Brush Carrier
- Palette (11 x 15”)
- Artist’s Low Adhesive Tape
- #2 Pencil and kneaded eraser
- (2) Gator Boards: 12 x 16” or masonite boards
- Paper: 1 sheet 140# Arches Cold Press Watercolor Paper 22 x 30” (Tear paper into 1/4 sections)
- Rags/paper towels
- Small sea sponge
- Water container
- Sketch book