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Schedule for Beginning Watercolor Class
Class 1: Getting Started
Gain familiarity with paper, pigment, brushes, palette, and the specialized vocabulary of watercolor painting. Review the basics of a productive and comfortable work space arrangement. Experiment with materials and supplies to explore their creative potential.
Class 2: Laying a Wash
Learn to execute basic watercolor washes and practice this foundational skill. Combine washes with expressive calligraphy to see the pictorial possibilities of the medium.
Class 3: Discovering the Value of Value
Look at a wide range of watercolors by accomplished artists to understand the critical role of value in successful paintings. Observe a value demonstration and practice producing light, mid-value, and dark washes. Combine washes to create the illusion of deep space in a landscape.
Class 4: Simplifying Complex Shapes
Practice reducing complex images to simplified shapes that can be executed in watercolor. Explore the creative potential of edges and secondary manipulations. Execute a painting with only twelve shapes.
Class 5: Painting a Floral Composition
Paint along with the instructor as he designs a floral composition, transfers drawing to watercolor paper, lays the beginning washes, adds mid-value structure, and finishes with dark accents and calligraphy.
Class 6: Painting a Still Life
Paint along with the instructor as he helps you utilize the skills learned to date to capture the light and color of a still life composition in watercolor.
Examples of class projects:
Paint an adobe house in four steps
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Adobe 1
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Adobe 2
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Adobe 3
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Adobe 4
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Paint a water lily in four steps
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Lily 1
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Lily 2
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Lily 3
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Lily 4
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Supply List
- Paper -- D’Arches 140# rough, 22 X 30 inches, 2 sheets
- Brushes (Polar Flo, Cheap Joe’s, Golden Taklon, or equivalent) one each 1” flat, ½” flat, #6 round, #12 or 14 round, #6 script liner or rigger
- Pigment (Winsor Newton Cotman student grade or equivalent)
Cadmium yellow
Gamboge hue (yellow)
Raw sienna
Cobalt blue
Cerulean blue
Ultramarine blue
Alizarin crimson or rose madder
Cadmium red
Burnt umber
- Palette -- John Pike big well, Cheap Joe’s, or equivalent
- Miscellaneous
¾ or 1 inch masking tape
Roll of paper towels
Hair dryer (optional)
Pencil (#2 or equivalent)
Soft white plastic eraser
2 coffee cans for water (or equivalent unbreakable wide-mouthed vessels)
Sketch book (8 ½ X 11 with 70# paper or heavier if possible)
Examples of Student Work
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student iris |
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student rose |
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student still life |
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student still life with candles |
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student landscape |
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Sign up now for the beginner’s watercolor class starting September 13
Class runs from 6:00 to 9:00 pm on Tuesdays at the Post Oak Studio, 3915 FM 1568 between Commerce and Campbell Texas. Classes will be held September 13, 20, 27, and October 4, 18 and 25, 2011. Note that there will be no class on Tuesday October 11. See above for a list of supplies.
Sign up now for the intermediate watercolor class starting September 12
Class runs from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Mondays at the Post Oak Studio, 3915 FM 1568 between Commerce and Campbell Texas. Classes will be held September 12, 19, 26, and October 3, 17, and 24, 2011. Note that there will be no class on October 10. See above for a list of supplies.
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