Service Description

Advanced Watercolor Techniques: Color and Surface This short workshop series with Julia Holmaas is for students with some prior watercolor experience. Each workshop will cover a different painting challenge. Week 1 (3/6): Avoiding Wimpy Watercolors: Pigment and H2O Ratio, Week 2 (3/13): Value of Planning your Painting, Week 3 (3/20): Gouache: Painting in "Reverse", Week 4 (3/27): Beyond the Brush: Tools for watercolor painting. Participants will need their own paint palette, paints, and brushes. Papers/surfaces and some additional tools will be supplied. *Please note that you may book individual sessions/topics separately or you may book all four together and save $20! March 6: Avoiding Wimpy Watercolors: Pigment and H2O ratio, and Mixing color During this session students will learn to successfully mix and apply watercolor pigment to create a vivid and strong watercolor painting. Julia will provide guidance as to the paint/water ratio and how to apply pigment. Suggested Supply List: - Covered palette - Brushes: 1" and 2" flat brush, #4, #8, and #12 round - Palette knife - Paint: good quality professional grade watercolor paintin the following colors: permanent alizarin crimson, bright red or permanent red, new gamboge, lemon yellow, French ultramarine, Prussian blue