Watercolor for Beginners

This class is for beginners. We will explore how the paint moves with the water, experience how different paper reacts with the paint, practice layering color to add depth and shading, how colors blend, brushstrokes and basic drawing. Participants will have two finished pieces and gain more confidence with the medium.

Supplies needed:

– Palette – any style, white, plastic with enough room to mix colors

– Mason jar, or something to hold water

-Paint:A grumbacher watercolor paint set will work. If you want to invest in tubes of paint, a suggested basic palette of colors:

• Cool Red – Permanent Alizarin Crimson

• Warm Red – Cadmium Red Light, Light Red or Vermillion

• Cool Blue: Cobalt Blue

• Warm Blue: Thalo Blue or Prussian Blue

• Warm Yellow: Yellow Ochre or Raw Sienna

• Cool Yellow: Light Yellow

• Warm Green: Gold Green or Sap Green

• Cool Green: Veridian Green or Emerald Green

• Earths: Sepia, or Burnt Sienna

• Payne’s grey

– Size 10 round watercolor brush

– Size 5 or 6 round watercolor brush

– 3/4 or 1 inch Flat wash watercolor brush

– Rigger watercolor brushpencil

– Kneaded eraser

– At least 10 sheets of watercolor paper: 9×12, can be hot press or cold press, can be in a tablet or a block. Some examples are Canson 9×12 Portrait, Wirebound or Watercolor pad; Arches 9×12 watercolor block, 140 lb.