Explore watercolor painting techniques with Carol Schwartz and Tower Hill Botanic Garden, online, in a four session course from March 6 – 27m 9:30 – 11 am. Try working wet on wet and wet on dry. Learn about mixing colors, layering, blending and texturing, as well as composition and balance of values. Improve your painting skills through class assignments focused on botanical subjects, painting demos, and individual video chats. This online course will be taught as a combination of individual video meetings, group video meetings, demo videos and email for keeping in touch. What to expect: Everyone will meet in the morning for a lesson and art review. After the morning session you will work on an assignment provided by the instructor. Each person will then schedule a 15 min afternoon consultation time with Carol to get personal instruction on the assignment. Materials are not provided for the workshop.
Week 1: Citrus Colors, Lemons and Limes
Week 2: The Many Shades of White, Camellias
Week 3: Sunny Yellow with Winter Aconite
Week 4: Dreaming of Spring Color, Crocus
Material List (Not Included W/ Registration)
1. 1 sketchbook, any size, for taking notes and thumbnail sketches
2. B or 2B pencil
3. Kneaded eraser
4. Watercolor paints, either pan set or tubes. Suggested brands include Winsor & Newton, Pelikan, Raphael, Royal Talens, Van Gogh, or Koi. Suggested assortment of colors or similar include: Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Quinacridone Red, Burnt Sienna, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine or Indigo, Sap Green, Violet, and Permanent White gouache
5. Round watercolor brushes, sable or synthetic sable, One large (6-8), one medium (2-4) and one small (0)
6. Watercolor paper pad, 9 ? x 12 Explore watercolor painting techniques. Try working wet on wet and wet on dry. Learn about mixing colors, layering, blending and texturing, as well as composition and balance of values. Improve your painting skills through class assignments focused on botanical subjects, painting demos, and individual video chats.
7. Plastic, metal, or ceramic palette, even an old plate will do
8. Water container
$150 for Tower Hill members, $175 for nonmembers. Register at www.towerhillbg.org.
