Watercolor
BASIC WATERCOLOR COURSE
Duration: 1 trimester (12 lessons)
Level: Beginner
Timetable:
– Monday 6:00-8:00 PM
– Tuesday or Wednesday 6:40-8:10 PM – Friday 10:00-12:00 PM
Would you like to learn the basics of watercolor painting? This course is for you! We’ll explore how to achieve various color blends and shades, and which paper weights to use depending on the project and desired effects. I invite you to discover some of the tricks of watercolor painting: working on wet and dry paper, using specific brushes, and more unusual materials. Starting with simple subjects, we’ll explore a wide variety of themes: from landscapes to flowers and birds to figures and faces. We’ll alternate between works from photos and compositions from real life.
SKETCHBOOK TECHNIQUE
Would you enjoy sketching outdoors? The sketchbook technique will get you started. With simple studies, you’ll learn to faithfully reproduce color and capture its main chromatic harmonies using pencil and watercolor.
FOLIAGE AND WATER
We’ll study landscapes in more detail, to learn how to render the effects of water, foliage, or grass using specific watercolor brushes and tricks. We’ll explore the palette of various greens needed to create a landscape.
ADVANCED WATERCOLOR COURSE
WET ON WET
Through ower arrangements and still lifes, we explore how to work wet on wet, render the various shades of color, work by layering or alla prima in a more gestural way with an approach similar to the Japanese Sumi-è technique.
STILL LIFE
HOW TO PAINT THE SKIN TONE
Which palette should we use to render the skin tone and its various harmonies using the wet technique? This is what we’ll study along with the type of paper best suited to rendering the gure.
