Painting Landscapes in Watercolor
Smith Vocational Adult Community Education
Regular price
$300.00
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Open to anyone 16 years old or older
When we think of watercolor landscape painting, we often think of the beautiful Adirondack or Bahamas paintings by Winslow Homer or the en plein air paintings of John Singer Sargent. In this class you will learn how to create impressionistic landscape paintings, by identifying a strong value design and simple color patterns. We will start with a grounding in watercolor brush handling, and how to glaze washes to build up paint layers in the traditional way. You will learn how to choose a scene to paint from, identify a simplified value and color design to paint, and capture this on paper in a planned-out series of watercolor wash layers. We will be using watercolor paint in this class, though the lessons in color and value composition will be useful across media. Students of all levels are welcome.
If you choose to buy your own supplies, please see the following list (You will be provided with provide paper towels and water containers):
PAINTS
Tube paints are preferable but not required.
Paint colors you will need:
- alizarin crimson
- cadmium yellow
- viridian green (or phthalocyanine green, or Winsor green, depending on
brand)
- ultramarine blue and/ or cobalt blue
Professional-quality brands (such as Winsor and Newton Professional, Daniel Smith,
will run you $15-20 a tube. You won’t need more than the smallest tubes (5 ml) for
this class. You can start with lower quality, and they may have different names than
the traditional ones above (like "primary yellow" or "sky blue.") Students who are renting supplies from me will be using student grade watercolors. A good student grade option is the Winsor and Newton Cotman series.
*Please try to place your paints in your palette at least 24 hours before class meets.
Wet paints fresh from the tube are hard to work with. To see correct palette arrangement, visit GiselleHarrington.com/art-
PLASTIC PALETTE
- Preferable one that folds:
BRUSHES
- One large round brush size 10-14, like the Daler Rowney Simply Simmons
Synthetic Round Acrylic/ Multimedia Brush, Size 12
- One small round brush size 6-8
PAPER
- About 9” x 12” heavy mixed media paper, such as the Canson XL
Watercolor Series textured paper pad, 140 lb, 30 sheets, 9”x12”
PENCIL (and sharpener)
ERASER
Recommended: Clips, optional masking tape, a board slightly larger than your paper such as a chip board or a board taken
from the back of a sketchbook.
For classes where we go outside, you will also want an easel of some sort to transport and work on. We will discuss this in the first class.