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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

Students 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.
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