Instructor: Karen Charbonneau Zukas
Ages: 15 up
Format: 2 1/2 hour workshop
Dates: Wednesday, October 23rd
Time: 3:00 to 5:00
Course Fee: $45 - All Materials included : Leaves, Beautiful French Watercolor Paper, Paints, brushes, palettes, tools and equipment, instruction, images.
Watercolor ~ Autumn Leaves ~ 1 Day Workshop !!
This is an excellent way to begin to learn to paint with watercolor. You won't believe your eyes, as the leaves come to life on the paper in front of you !! Working from real autumn leaves, you'll recreate the beauty of nature and become hooked on the results. You'll learn to SEE the details and wait until the very end to add them. It's so much fun learning the process while making the product. You'll practice watercolor techniques and approaches to get different effects by using various methods such as wet on wet, bleeding, wet on damp and pre wetting. You'll review basic color mixing and viscosity, pigment to water ratios, brush strokes, and application, you'll even learn some tricks of the trade, like scratching, scraping, spraying, flicking etc. which will enhance your paintings. You'll also become adept at identifying which are the best brushes for the job along with color studies and composition.