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Color and Surface Week 3


Thursday, 1:00pm - 3:30pm March 20, 2025 4-wk session OR individual classes Ages 18+

Starts Mar 20, 2025
40 US dollars
Art Barn

6 Spots Available


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 20: Gouache: Painting in “Reverse” Transparent watercolorists paint from light to dark and white paper is left for highlights. With opaque gouache painting white or light colors are applied at the end. This session provides students withexperience in painting with opaque gouache rather than traditional transparent watercolor. 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


Upcoming Sessions


Cancellation Policy

Refunds are issued, minus a $25 fee, up to 24 hours before the start of class. No refunds are permitted after that time.


Contact Details

  • 695 North 400 East, Valparaiso, IN, USA

    (219) 462-9009

    info@artbarnschool.org


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