WORKSHOPS

This is a short introduction to the basics of watercolor to enable new students to join one of the regular classes with the basic knowledge of how to handle this challenging but rewarding medium.

• The importance of the proportion of water and paint
• Brushes—sable or synthetic, care of brushes
• Paper—rough, cold press or hot press
• Paints, colors and setting out your palette
• The color wheel and complimentary colors
• Warm and cool colors, granulation, transparency
• Mixing, on the palette, brush and paper
• Highlights, reserving whites, using Miskit, white paints
• Correcting mistakes
• Creating volume, shadows and shapes

You will have the opportunity to practice techniques and we hope to complete a landscape and a still life. You will learn about:

• Composition—’rule’ of thirds
• Techniques—washes, glazes, dry brush, spattering & scraping
• Basics of perspective, painting lines
• Salt, straws, runny paint, spattering, cling film and textures
• Skies—blue skies and cloudy
• Trees, bushes, palms and grasses
• Brickwork, timber, rocks, beaches and water

The course runs on Saturday and Sunday, November 24th and 25th 2024, at the Desert Art Center, 550 North Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs 92262. The cost for two days of instruction is $125, by check, cash, or Zelle. Pay on the day but please book a place, so I can prepare for you. Let me know if you need the materials list. All students must have their own, paper, paints, brushes, and other materials.

To book contact iancooke49@gmail.com, 760 408 3313