My friend and neighbor, Joe Mullins, is offering an outdoor and painting class at the same time I am running my October 2011 Croton Creative Digital Photography Class.
We'll get together for a nice welcome dinner and dinners throughout the week - sharing what we have learned and how we might apply the lessons to our individual craft. We'll also have a grand finale show at the end of the workshops. What fun!
Here's the scoop.
This course will incorporate basic sketching styles specifically for landscape painting. It will cover pencil, pen and ink, watercolor and charcoal. These sketches will be used as a road map to help the artist re-define the landscape in front of them. With these on-site drawings and sketches of the landscapes, the artist can continue their finished painting in the studio as many landscape painters do. All levels. All media will be covered, watercolor will be the focus.
Demonstrations will be given over a three-day period in different media to explain the usefulness of this process.
September 28 to October 1.
Limit 8 students. Cost: $800.
Day 1:
Participants will become familiar with their surroundings through sketches & drawings. I will cover value sketches as reference for paintings. We will cover several different media as well as he importance of becoming familiar with a scene or an general area.
Day 2:
Continuing the process of sketching, we will develop more informational drawings that will stand as a road map for painting in the future. We begin to develop a finished painting or paintings.
Day 3:
Now that we have become familiar with our chosen scene and referencing the previous days studies we will develop a finished painting.
Materials List:
Easel, any style that will adjust to a flat surface. Look for watercolor easels,
Palette / Tray
Water containers
Rags or paper towels
Brushes:
2” flat synthetic wash brush
1” flat synthetic wash brush
Squirrel Quill Mop Brush No. 10
Round Kolinsky Sable No. 12 or a blend of synthetic Round Kolinsky Sable No. 12
Round Kolinsky Sable No. 6 or a blend of synthetic Round Kolinsky Sable No. 6
Winsor Newton Sceptre Gold II or the Cotman line are fine.
Tubed watercolors:
Cadmium Yellow Pale
Cadmium Red
Alizarin Crimson
French Ultramarine
Colbolt Blue
Perylene Green
Sap Green
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber
Payne’s Grey
Paper
Sketch (bond paper) 11” X 14”
Watercolor paper: 90 or 140 lb is fine. Try different brands and surfaces. Rough, cold press & hot press are the 3 surfaces available in watercolor paper. Cold press is the most popular. If you are a beginner, stick with cold press
See more of Joe's work on his site.
To sign up, shoot Joe an email.