Learn Watercolor and expand your creativity through painting techniques!
Learn Watercolor and expand your creativity through painting techniques!
Eggplant by Elaine Cimino
Take watercolor art classes and learn painting skills that will be with you for a life-time. This watercolor art class covers color theory and painting techniques in watercolors. You learn about papers and various drawing techniques. Learn the color wheel and elements of color theory. Beginners welcomed. If you are experienced or have taken previous classes please bring your art work to class to show me what you would like to work on for this session We will explore Realism and abstraction and use experimental techniques.
We will explore Wet in Wet techniques that includes any application of paint or water to an area of the painting that is already wet with either paint or water. In general, wet in wet is one of the most distinctive features of watercolor painting and the technique that produces a striking painterly effect.
Wet in wet actually comprises a variety of specific painting effects, each produced through different procedures. Among the most common watercolor techniques and characteristic:
- Backruns (also called blossoms, blooms, oozles, watermarks, backwashes or runbacks).
- Paint Diffusion. This produces a characteristic feathery, delicate border around the color area
- Pouring Color. Some artists pour large quantities of slightly diluted paint onto separate areas of the painting surface. (The technique was actually invented, and used for similar effect, by J.M.W. Turner.)
- Dropping In Color. In this technique a color area is first precisely defined with diluted paint or clear water.
- Salt Texture. Grains of coarse salt, sprinkled into moist paint, produce small, snowflake like imperfections in the color.
- Cling-film technique. The use of kitchen cling-film to create special effects in watercolor painting.
Artist using watercolor
Dry Brush techniques that includes scrumbling
Color Mixing we will explore minimal palettes and split palettes of warm and cool relationships.
A good link to read up on these techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watercolor_painting
Where: North Valley Senior Center
Times: 4:30- 6:30 pm Days: Tuesday afternoon (4 classes) Dates: Feb 4th -25th, 2014 Cost: $65.00 (under $20 per class)
Other: Materials List available Online
Register: Online registration Payment can be made online on the Elaine’s Website through Paypal that accepts credit cards or by check at the Senior Center Front Desk made Payable to Elaine Cimino Studios, LLC or the first day of class. Please register online so we know your intention to take the class.
Details
| When: | Feb 4, 2014 to Feb 25, 2014 |
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| Class Times: | 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm |
| Required Materials: | please see the Materials List » |
| Location: | N. Valley Senior Center |
| Cost: | $65.00 |
Payment Instructions
You can pay online on this website that is secure or you may register and pay at the Front Desk of the North valley Senior Center.
