Make Your Watercolor Landscapes Sing

“Make Your Watercolor Landscapes Sing”

Instructor: Leslie Berry

This mini workshop is designed to show students how to fully utilize the qualities of the watercolor medium – transparency, fluidity, spontaneity – to create more dynamic and vibrant landscape painting. To achieve this objective, we begin by simplifying and composing the subject, creating a value study, and with a limited palette, planning how and when to use techniques such as wet-into-wet, flat wash, graded wash, brush line and dry brush. Leslie will help each student practice these concepts and techniques on one of their paintings.

Date:  April 10, 2024
Time: 1:00  – 4:00 PM
Location: SRAL Studio
Maximum Number of Students: 12
Student Supply List:

Tube Watercolors

For this workshop we’ll begin with a minimum palette:

• Cadmium Yellow Pale (or Lemon
• Cadmium Yellow Medium
• Cadmium Red Light
• Alizarin Crimson
• Ultramarine Blue
• Prussian Blue (or Phthalo Blue)

(Optional) additional colors for a basic palette include:

• Cobalt Blue
• Viridian Green
• Yellow Ochre
• Burnt Sienna
• Burnt Umber
• Black

Brushes

No.12, No. 8, No. 6 red sable rounds
¾ inch flat sable, short bristle

Other Supplies

Round “Allman” Palette (white) or a rectangular palette
Large water container and cup
Small natural art sponge – “Aphrodite” is one example.
Shop towels or paper towels.
Soft 2B pencil

Paper

Arches 7 x 10” and/or 9 x 12” 140 lb cold pressed watercolor block
Alternatively, you may bring a board with stretched 140 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper if you prefer.
Multi-media Sketchpad
Reference photo of landscape(s)

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