The subtly melancholic yet pleasant mood that Autumn ushers in, is accompanied by a generous palette of vibrant, glorious colors that triggers in artists a chromatic fit and an excuse to raid the art store searching for those elusive red hues, shades of yellow orange, stormy blue-violet grays.

In the 6 sessions of this online watercolor course, we will enjoy exploring a great variety of chromatic possibilities as we paint watercolor landscapes from photographic references that I will provide.

Each session will start with a small study, where we will analyze our subject establishing what palette to use and finding color harmonies, practice what technique is best suited to obtain a certain effect, study the composition.

This essential step is a great learning opportunity for practicing color mixing, various painting techniques, making aesthetic decisions and editing the original reference as needed.

The initial quick watercolor studies will be followed by the creation of final paintings in larger size, with the objective of creating finished Artworks that could contribute to your body of work.

In addition to practicing various techniques and painting approaches, we will also discuss a variety of colors that, for now, I am not including in the basic materials list you find below.

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.