CSP-AVO8730 - Basic Watercolor Techniques

Course Description

Surprise yourself by recreating the joy you felt painting when you were young. Awaken your creative spirit under the guidance of our highly skilled instructor as you learn to use watercolors. You will find out how expressive just four materials — paint, water, brush, and paper — can be. Learn about pigments, paints, brushes, palettes, washes, and more while experimenting with the design concepts of space, color, and composition. All skill levels are welcome.

Course Outline

• Color Wheel: water to pigment ratio science of watercolor
• Limited Color Pallet: Scumbling, Dry Brush Watercolor Apple Paul Cezanne
• Tonal Values: Glazing & Preserving white areas Value Scale : Black and White Bust
• Tonal Values: Linear Perspective Paint your room in tonal values
• Run Through Nature: Staining, Scavenger Hunt : Run, Blooms, Bleeds
• Run Through Nature
• Trees in a Landscape: Wet-n-wet
• Working with Water: Lifting Making waves and setting sail
• Painting Water: granulation and transparency
• Florals in Glass
• Portraits: expressive backgrounds Ali Cavanaugh
• Portraits Final Critique

Learner Outcomes

Notes

**This class is held on the Levine Campus in Matthews, on the bottom floor in Levine II, room 1414. To access the campus map, please click on this link: https://www.cpcc.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/23898-LevineCampusMapMASTER.pdf

**Students will need to supply the following:

WATERCOLOR TUBES: (Yellow/Blue/Red/ Pink/ Grey)

PY 37 – Cadmium Yellow Light
PR 108 – Cadmium Red
PV19 – Quinacridone rose
PB 28– Cobalt Blue

Optional but nice to have:

PBk6/PB27 -Payne’s Grey
PBR 7-Burnt Sienna
Yellow Ochre

SUPPLIES

$18-Cotton Paper 140 lb., 8x10, 9x12 (Must be cotton)
$5 -140 lb. paper SKETCHBOOK / Can be non-cotton
$5 - Wood Board to hold the paper flat (5 and below)
$3 - Kneaded eraser
$3 - Graphite pencil 6B, (woodless optional)
$0 - Clear Water Jar
$10-(Blue Pebeo Drawing Gum) Frisket
$5 - Rubber cement to pick-it-up (Eraser, not glue)
$40-4 tubes ($5-10 each) Tube Paints: Winsor & Newton or Daniel Smith (No watercolor cakes; off brands are acceptable)
$16 - Brushes: Kolinsky sable brushes hold water well: Round Brush in Sizes: #2, #4, #6,  #8, #10, #12  
$10 -Folding Watercolor pallet with mixing wells
           -Misting bottle for keeping paint moist
           -Masking Tape, Blue Painters Tape
           -Bulldog clips to hold my paper
           -Cheap small brushes 2-3 (for masking fluid)

SURFACES OF WATERCOLOR PAPER
A minimum of 15 sheets of 140 paper, Cotton

(EITHER IS GOOD FOR THIS CLASS):
Hot-pressed (HP) Cotton – Watercolor paper with a very smooth
surface and almost no tooth. Good for painting detailed paintings
and creating very smooth washes.

Cold-pressed Cotton – It’s the paper texture in-between rough and
hot-pressed paper; having a slightly textured surface, this paper is
sometimes called NOT. The Not stands for “Not Hot pressed”

YOUR SKETCH BOOK: YOUR ART: YOUR CHOICE

Mixed Media Spiral Bound Sketch Book-140lbs.
Canon Spiral bound Watercolor Sketch Pad- 140lbs.
Five and BELOW Spiral Bound Sketchbook -140 lb.