Sue Levy, Watercolor Spring Colors Series

A great class for beginner to intermediate watercolor artists!

Designed for those of you who have a desire to paint in Watercolor.
* For those with some drawing ability to those just getting back to painting and for those of you more advanced in painting.

My classes are designed to inspire and help you have a better understanding of:

• How watercolor reacts on the watercolor paper.
• How a Wet on Wet Technique allows the paint to flow.
• How to control how much water to paint to give you the values and strength of color
• How by laying a color down and adding another color into it letting the two to mix and change the colors. Harmony of color and Color Theory (It isn’t difficult, don’t panic)
• Painting the Spring Landscape: the color palette of Spring, mixing good greens, painting trees, water, rocks, etc., all the things that come alive in Spring
• Perspective, negative spaces and how to paint them using medium and dark values.
• A positive space is the largest part of your painting. It might be a Barn, House etc.

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 and soft , lost and found edges.
• All the Design and Composition Principles 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 4/7, 14, 21, and 28 sessions separately from the Class Calendar.)