ROBERTO OSTI
Foundation Crash Course Watercolor Sampler #326
$200.00
WATERCOLOR
Friday 03/27/2026 - 05/01/2026
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Number of Lessons: 6
Explore watercolor by painting these popular subjects: landscape, plants and flowers, animals and pets.
Practice watercolor techniques, textural effects, washes, gradations, color mixing and more, with this six sessions, intensive watercolor course designed for the artists that want to explore the various possibilities of this fun and luminous medium. Whether you paint indoor or plein-air, you will find this course very useful for learning a variety of techniques and effects or to brush up your watercolor skills.
We will dedicate two sessions of 2 ½ hours to each subject: two for the landscape, two to the botanical and two to the animals using photographic references I will provide, aiming to prepare one painting per session.
Flowers, trees and woods, fur and wet puppy noses, skies, clouds, reflections on water, textures for rocks and other materials, composition, intuitive perspective, atmospheric perspective, colors mixing and color theory: the knowledge you will acquire painting these subjects will give you a solid technical foundation that you can direct toward any other topic of your interest.
Open to all levels.
Materials list:
- A fewof sheet of watercolor paper or Watercolor paper pad, Arches, Fabriano, Winsor & Newton or similar, Cold Press, size 10 by 14 or similar.
- Watercolor paint (tube or pan): cadmium red, alizarine crimson, cadmium yellow medium and cadmium yellow lemon (or pale), yellow ochre, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, sap green, viridian green, raw umber, burnt sienna, sepia, Black. You can also use the colors you already have, email me the list of your colors to see if you have some that can substitute those in my list.
- Brushes: the classic watercolor brush is a #8, round, Kolinsky sable brush, but this brush can be very expensive. Winsor and Newton series 7 Kolinsky sable in size 8 can cost $200. Cheaper brands yet very good quality Kolinsky sable brushes are Raphael and Eskoda. You can also use a round, synthetic watercolor brush in size 10 or 12 for a fraction of the price and be perfectly happy. You will also need a #2 round, kolinsky sable or synthetic and a 3/8” flat, synthetic watercolor brush.
- Pencils in gradation HB and 2B, kneaded eraser, pencil sharpener.
- A couple of old ceramic plates or plastic palette for color mixing and a couple of water containers.
- Paper towels
Availability of Courses' Recordings
As part of the services offered by the New Renaissance Atelier, you will have access to the recordings of the video sessions of all the online courses you purchased for one year.
You will find the links to the videos in your Personal Video Library that has been set up specifically for you.
Please keep this Video library link on your desktop or in your browser for easy access.
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