Loose and Expressive Watercolor Painting - Session B

Loose and Expressive Watercolor Painting - Session B

Workshop | This program is completed

Beginner, Intermediate

10/15/2018-11/5/2018

1:00 PM-4:00 PM MDT on Mon

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$161.00

$136.85

PLEASE NOTE: Workshop Location at PACE Center in Parker, CO
Learn how to create lively watercolor paintings with free and generous brush strokes. During this workshop, beginner and intermediate level painters are invited to try out a variety of watercolor painting strategies and techniques to create loose, intuitive, free, and spontaneous effects. You will learn about color mixing, glazes, composition, drying time, thickness, and edges while painting short, warm-up sketches as well as finished landscape or cityscape paintings.

  • Location: PACE Center at Parker, CO
  • 20000 Pikes Peak Avenue, Parker, CO 80138
  • PAINTS: I use Daniel Smith, M. Graham, and Holbein Paints almost exclusively (these are my favorites), bring primary colors, at a minimum, and any other additional colors you desire. Winsor Newton Cotman (small tube) will do. I often use Windsor Newton Cotman for sketching and preliminary studies.
  • Color suggestions:
  • • French Ultramarine Blue*
  • • Cobalt Blue*
  • • Cerulean Blue or Manganese Blue*
  • • Cadmium Red Light*
  • • Winsor Red
  • • Alizarin Crimson*
  • • Burnt Sienna*
  • • Cadmium Yellow Light*
  • • Hansa Yellow
  • • Yellow Ochre
  • • Pyrrol Red*
  • • Pyrrol Orange
  • • Quinacridone Sienna*
  • • Titanium White
  • • Lavender (Holbein)
  • • Brown Madder
  • • Viridian
  • • Green Turquoise Light (W&N) or Cobalt Teal Blue*
  • • Neutral Tint*
  • • Sepia*
  • • Indigo*
  • * these are the colors I use most often
  • BRUSHES: Please bring the best quality you have or are able.
  • • Round big, mop/quill-shaped and round pointed brushes (sable or squirrel).
  • • One rigger or needle point for fine details and lines.
  • • Small synthetic brushes sized #8, 10, 12 (I like Escoda Versatil or Princeton Neptune or Da Vinci)
  • PAPER:
  • • Arches or Fabriano 300 grams rough texture in140 and 90 lb. For workshops, it is best to use 1/4 or 1/2 size sheet, but of course, you can paint in any size you feel comfortable. I will demonstrate on 1/4 and 1/2 size sheets
  • • Smooth paper for watercolor, pencil, or charcoal sketches. I prefer sketchbooks.
  • MISC:
  • • Sponges, towel, tissues, water container, masking tape, blue painters tape 3/4” or 1” wide, 2b - 6b pencil, charcoal sticks, water spray bottle, painting boards, easels standing or tabletop which ever you prefer.
  • • Please bring an abundant sense of humor!

Although I occasionally dabble in other media, watercolor is my artistic first love. I have always been drawn to watercolor painting; I appreciate the unique flow of paint, the melting color, the way light takes shape and comes alive on the paper. Watercolors are a bit free spirited. As an artist I have had to learn that I will never master the paint, but rather I will work with it. I have learned several life lessons from watercolor painting, such as acceptance and perseverance, letting go and pushing through, and how to be freer. My earliest influences and inspirations came from the Great Lakes region where I grew up. Throughout my lifetime I have been enamored of boats. Sailing vessels, lake freighters, military frigates; any type of boat has captured my imagination. Although I have resided in Colorado for many years, my paintings often reflect my love of the Great Lakes, fostered by frequent trips to my hometown near Detroit, Northern Michigan, and Wisconsin.