Sue Levy, Watercolor Spring Colors Series

A great class for beginner to intermediate watercolor artists!

Spring Watercolor Workshop 2025 is a fresh new class consisting of:
Design & Composition fundamentals & the Principals of Design
Learning how:

• Values
• Color
• Shape and drawing in Perspective all play a part of painting . A good drawing makes a good painting!

• Simplify a scene
• Choosing your center of interest and how to *focus keeping it more detailed in the center of interest, while everything else is a supportive *shape and more out of focus.
• Shape of the elements
• Mixing the right colors and keeping your color clean, not muddy .

• Wet in Wet technique (wet paper and wet brush)
• Wet into Dry (dry paper, wet brush)

Spring vibrant colors of the palette of Spring.
Also adding people, flowers, in your painting for more interest
intro to flowers of Spring. Much more.

The class will be:

• COLOR: Using the warm side of the color wheel to create the beautiful rich fall colors. Using cool color from the color wheel to put distance going into the background. Working with the families of Yellow, Red, and Blue. Mixing color, ratio of water to pigment. 
• VALUE: A range of Light areas, middle, and dark areas
• SHAPE: finding the center of interest , making that the largest SHAPE, creating interest repeating shapes . Support shapes.
• Edges: hard & soft , lost and found edges.
• All the Design & Composition, Principals of Design

Materials List:

• Watercolor paint I use (warm (W), cool (C)):

W - cadmium yellow, C - lemon yellow, W - cadmium red,  C - alizarin crimson, W - cerulean blue, C - ultramarine blue or cobalt blue.

These are primary split palette colors using two yellows, two reds and two blues in a warm and cool of each color.

Additional colors I use :

W - yellow ochre or raw sienna, W - burnt sienna,  sap green, hookers green,  violet but I like mixing my own.

• Good watercolor paper such as Arches, 140 lb. cold press
• A board or something to tape your paper to or use a watercolor block (Arches or Canson Aquarelle) 
• Brushes: round brush #4, 6; flat chisel edge brushes 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch
• Old jar or Cool Whip container to hold water
• Paper towels 
• Photo references for you to choose the subject material you will be painting. We will be doing subjects of Autumn. Suggested subjects: trees in a landscape with a stream, a barn, etc.

This Watercolor Workshop is a casual class, all questions are welcome. Learn techniques in Watercolor; getting the maximum use of your brushes.

This class is geared toward students interested in learning the wonderful world of watercolor. Some drawing ability is preferred. For beginners to intermediate painters.

Maximum class size: 16
Minimum class size: 4

(Register here for the series or register for 4/8, 15, 22, and 29 sessions separately from the Calendar.)