Watercolor Art Classes
Theresa M. Quirk
Watercolor Class Notes
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101: CLASS NOTES
- Watercolor Palette: We will discuss the palatte of Jeanne Dobie as well as her palette update.
- Creating Depth with Value Changes - Wet-into-wet (left) and Glazing or Layering (right)
- Techniques: A varied collection of techniques will be discussed such as Resist, Textures and Spray
- Suggested Reading for the upcoming week features online sources.
- Featuring Master of the brush stroke: John Singer Sargent.
102: CLASS NOTES
- Creating Depth with Temperature Changes: Push & Pull
- Establishing a Center of Interest
- Techniques: A varied collection of techniques will be discussed such as Washes, Glazing, Wet in Wet, Dry Brush and others.
- Suggested Reading for the upcoming week features online sources.
- Featuring Master of "Pull & Pull" Center of Interest: John Salminen
103: CLASS NOTES
- Laying a Wash
- Determining the Patterns of Light & Shadow
- Breaking a subject into simple shapes
- Painting a line of Pines
- Techniques: Simplicity, Linkage, Shapes:, Light & shadow patterns, Lost & Found, Less is more
- Suggested Reading for the upcoming week features online sources.
- Feature Artist: Don Andrews
104: CLASS NOTES
- Greens
- Mixing Greens
- EXERCISE: Paint a Bird, Painting
- Techniques: Composing your scene: LINEAR & SPOT
- Suggested Reading for the upcoming week features online sources.
- Feature Artist: Ferdinand Petrie
- Painting Clouds
- Exercise: Sky Practice
- Painting Fog
- Feature Artist: Joseph Zbukvic
- Painting Water
- Exercise: Mastering Reflections
- WHAT TO INCLUDE AND WHAT TO EXCLUDE
- The effect of art
- This Business of Painting Water
- Feature Artist: Joe Francis Dowden
107: CLASS NOTES
- Understanding Value
- Techniques: Tea, Milk, or Cream?
- Exercise: Value Practice
Online Reading: shifting the middle value lighter (left) or darker (right)
- Feature Artist: Joseph Zbukvic
- FORM-DESCRIBING SHADOWS
- Techniques: Texture
- Exercise: Spattering
- Online Reading: TIPS from Tony Van Hassett
- Feature Artist: Tony Van Hassett
- Design & Composition Secrets
- Color
- Subdueing & Enhancing
- Weaving in Details
- Texture, Rhythm, Line
- Exaggeration, Bulls-eyes & Popping Whites
110: CLASS NOTES
- Problem Solving: Washes, Scrubbing & Lifting
- Building a toolbox
- Exercise, Starting at midtone, establishing a center of interest and working out to the dark / light areas using scrubbing and lifting techniques
- Online Reading: TIPS from Aquanet
110: CLASS NOTES
- Painting Trees - Links and Many types of techniques
- Exercise: Understanding Wet on Wet
- Controlling Watercolor
- "Building" Your Plein Air Painting
110: CLASS NOTES
- How To Correct Mistakes in Watercolor
- Exercise: Making Darks in Watercolor
110: Last Class - Open Session
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