Paint quick, fresh, lively watercolors, with this 6-online session watercolor course dedicated to practice methods and techniques aimed to improve your technical skills, obtain clean and vibrant colors, paint more efficiently and confidently. These skills will be particularly useful when working outdoors, for both quick or extended sessions.

During each 3-our painting session, we will create a watercolor landscape painting going through a variety of steps that will help you to further develop your painting skills. We will start each painting session by preparing a variety of small, quick studies, to decide composition, color palette to use and painting approach. These studies will be then followed by a larger size and more detailed final painting. working from original photographic references of a variety of landscapes that I will provide. These images are copyright free and you will be able to enter your artworks in art shows and competitions.

We will also study the style of master colorists, such as Wyeth, Sargent, Hopper to name a few: a great way to explore and promote creativity and develop our individual technique and personal artistic voice.

Materials

• Paint: cadmium red medium, alizarine crimson, cadmium yellow lemon, cadmium yellow medium, earth red, (Indian red, Venetian red or burnt Sienna) yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, ultramarine violet, black, burnt umber, sepia, cobalt blue, cobalt violet, sap green, Hooker’s green, and any other colors you might already have
• Paper: a pad (12” by 16” or so of cold press paper.
• Brushes: #2 and #8 or 10, round. You can use synthetic or natural sables (Kolinsky or red sable), a flat, synthetic brush, about ¾ “will do.