Intermediate Watercolor March 2024 - Session 6

Thursday May 2nd 2024 – 1pm-3pm EST

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The final session will be a full size version of the Venice scene studies we did last week. Even though we did a lot of work working out values and colors last week there will still be a lot to do working through problems in a bigger version. Such a great scene though it’s worth it.

I will record the drawing ahead of time and send out a link to it (it will also be on the youtube playlist too). Please do the drawing ahead of time please go ahead. I know that often people want to take time over this and it gives us more time in class for painting.

(All session materials are linked off the main page)

Materials:

Student paper for mixing color swatches
100% cotton paper for the full painting (I’ll be using 14″x8.5″)
Value scale (See the Useful Tools page)
Pencil/Paint/Palette/Water/Paper towels/masking tape
Brushes: A larger brush for the early loose washes. Smaller brushes for the details.
Colors: Cobalt blue, Ultramarine, Burnt sienna, Vermillion/napthol/cad red (orangey red), Permanent rose (pinkish red), Cad lemon/hansa yellow (greenish yellow), yellow ochre, black.
Some Dr Ph Martin’s bleed proof white (or white gouache) for finishing details.

I will be using the new ChromaMagic app for mixing. Definitely not necessary for the class and the free version is always available. The app does have a nifty new feature for showing swatches that you can mix from though which will be handy in class.

Reference Photo (click to enlarge and right click to download)