I decided to offer this new course in response to many of the artworks featuring animals and pets that many of you sent me asking for tips and comments, revealing a great interest in this subject.

In this course, we will create a variety of drawings and watercolor artworks, featuring pets and other animals like parrots, horses, goats, to name a few.

The participants will be invited to submit photos of their pets, that I’ll be selecting as reference images for the class, considering the quality of the photo submitted.

For this course, we will be using a variety of media, such as graphite, charcoal and chalk, crayons, colored pencils and watercolors.

We will start with charcoal and chalk on toned paper and we will discuss other possible media during the first class.

Open to all levels

Open to all levels

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Materials

• Watercolors: Watercolor paint (tube or pan): cadmium red, alizarine chrimson, cadmium yellow medium and cadmium yellow lemon or pale, yellow ochre, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, cobalt violet, sap green, emerald or viridian green, raw umber, burnt sienna, sepia, Black. You can start the course with the colors you have and we can discuss if what you already have can substitute some of the colors in this list.
• A pad or a couple of sheets of cold press watercolor paper.
• Brushes: a #8, round and a #2 round kolinsky sable or synthetic.
• Charcoal pencils: there are many brands of compressed charcoal pencils available on the market, I like to use Wolff’s Carbon in gradations B, 2B, 4B, and 6B; white chalk pencil. We will discuss pastels and colored pencils during the first session.
• Paper: gray or tan toned paper, such as Canson Mi Tientes, Strathmore Charcoal, or Ingres, made by Hahnemuhle, Fabriano or Canson. Fabriano Roma is also a very good paper.
• Blending stumps, kneaded erasers, pencil sharpeners and-or a small, sharp pen knife or box cutter, sand paper.