Watercolor -Teens - ages 12 -15
$45.00 per 1 hour 45 minutes class
Virtual Instruction is available. Contact the Artist.
Materials not included
Class Description
This course presents students with the basic techniques and concepts that are common to watercolor painting. Students will have the opportunity to paint still life compositions as well as from photographs, animation and their own drawings and designs.
Students with more experience with watercolor will receive more complex and challenging ‘assignments’.
Materials
2B pencil, (school yellow) NO mechanical pencils please
Kneaded eraser
Water Container
Paper Towels and or rags with bag for clean-up
Clothes protection
Neoprene or latex gloves - optional but recommended
Watercolor palette -with Large rectangular areas for color mixing NOT the small round ones
Watercolor paper minimum 11x17, 300lb. Cold Press in a pad or larger sheets which we will cut into smaller sections.
A board, 4x20" (a few inches bigger in all directions than your paper) either wood or alligator board to stretch paper on
Packing tape . Can be shared
Paint: A pan set is fine Prang or Reeves are good brands of basic watercolors. Basic tube sets are great. Better brands are like Holbein, Winsor-Newton or Grumbacker are fine but also bring cyan, & magenta if not included in the set. White is not necessary. Optional tube paints in addition to the magenta and cyan get: cadmium red medium or permanent red, vermillion, cadmium yellow medium or permanent yellow deep, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, burnt umber, ultramarine blue, sap green or hookers green. You can get other colors as you go on.
Brushes :
Made for watercolor: are usually sable. (they look like fine, fine hair or fur) Get one soft sable wash brush (broad and flat or very large round, #10 or #12 flat, #6 or #8 flat or bright, #6 or #8 filbert, #4 or #6 round , & a liner (small barrel with long hairs) Sets are fine.
Virtual Instruction is available. Contact the Artist.
Materials not included
Class Description
This course presents students with the basic techniques and concepts that are common to watercolor painting. Students will have the opportunity to paint still life compositions as well as from photographs, animation and their own drawings and designs.
Students with more experience with watercolor will receive more complex and challenging ‘assignments’.
Materials
2B pencil, (school yellow) NO mechanical pencils please
Kneaded eraser
Water Container
Paper Towels and or rags with bag for clean-up
Clothes protection
Neoprene or latex gloves - optional but recommended
Watercolor palette -with Large rectangular areas for color mixing NOT the small round ones
Watercolor paper minimum 11x17, 300lb. Cold Press in a pad or larger sheets which we will cut into smaller sections.
A board, 4x20" (a few inches bigger in all directions than your paper) either wood or alligator board to stretch paper on
Packing tape . Can be shared
Paint: A pan set is fine Prang or Reeves are good brands of basic watercolors. Basic tube sets are great. Better brands are like Holbein, Winsor-Newton or Grumbacker are fine but also bring cyan, & magenta if not included in the set. White is not necessary. Optional tube paints in addition to the magenta and cyan get: cadmium red medium or permanent red, vermillion, cadmium yellow medium or permanent yellow deep, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, burnt umber, ultramarine blue, sap green or hookers green. You can get other colors as you go on.
Brushes :
Made for watercolor: are usually sable. (they look like fine, fine hair or fur) Get one soft sable wash brush (broad and flat or very large round, #10 or #12 flat, #6 or #8 flat or bright, #6 or #8 filbert, #4 or #6 round , & a liner (small barrel with long hairs) Sets are fine.
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