Wet on Wet Watercolor (Online Course) Spring 2024 w/ Megan Marden

April 29 to May 27 (Mondays), 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM, Eastern Time

**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.

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Course Description

This class will embrace the portability of watercolor to create work that is immediate and spontaneous. Focusing on wet-on-wet techniques and the element of chance they introduce into your work, students will work to make small watercolors of everyday objects found in and around our homes, transcriptions, and views from our windows.

Course Outline

Week 1

In this first session, we will create watercolors from a single object. Using varied palettes and approaches, we will explore different ways of seeing and interpreting a singular object.

Week 2

In this second week, we will learn to let go of the image. Keeping the paper very wet, and slowly building up form through multiple layers of watercolor, and lots of lifting out with a paper towel.

Week 3

This week, we will create work that we will go back into once its dried – to create a work with a variety of hard and soft edges.

Week 4

This week, we will learn about composition and form from the masters by creating a transcription of a master work in watercolor.

Week 5

Final watercolor and final critique of work

Course Materials List

Watercolor Paper – Arches Watercolor Block, cold press or Strathmore series 400 watercolor pad – students should select a size they are most comfortable with.

Watercolor Brushes – synthetic brushes are fine
1 small round, 1 medium round, one mop brush and one flat brush – select sizes that work for you and consider the size of the paper you will be working with

Watercolor paint
Tubes or pans
Use what you have and like or build a new, simple palette for this class
Phthalo Blue
Ultramarine blue
Cadmium Red
Cadmium Yellow
Lemon Yellow
Alizarin Crimson
Burnt Sienna
All of these colors (plus a few extras) are included in a basic 12 half pan set from Sennelier, Winsor Newton, Schminke, etc.

HB Pencil

Pink Pearl Eraser

Drafting Tape

Jar for Water

Paper Towels

Small sketchbook (optional)

Hair Dryer (optional)