PSA Magic of Watercolours with Pauline Smith
This course is aimed at people wishing to become skilled in all the basic skills of watercolour painting.
Description
This course is aimed at beginners / people with some watercolour painting skills who are wishing to learn / learn more about the basic techniques of watercolour painting.
Students will learn to mix colours, lay washes, gain an understanding of values in a painting, create a passage of light through their work, and gain a solid understanding of composition.
Cost Breakdown Members: $211.50 Incl GST = $30.21per class ($12.08 per hour).
Cost Breakdown Non Member: $235.00 Incl GST = $33.57per class ($13.43per hour).
Membership
Current EAC members will receive 10% discount.
To find out more about how to become a member click on this link.
Prerequisites
Entry level students welcome
Students new to watercolour or with some experience.
Supplies
Students are required to bring their own art supplies.
Materials are available from Gordon Harris in Albany, up by the North Shore district courthouse. Gordon Harris kindly offers a student discount, please ask for it. Some paints can be purchased from Whitcoulls, Paper Plus, or Warehouse Stationery.
Paint student grade is fine: Tube paints please.
ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, new gamboge, raw sienna, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, indigo or Prussian blue.
Optional extras perylene green, phthalo blue, hookers green light or dark, van dyke brown
Winsor Newton, Cottmans, Horodam, Daniel Smith, all reliable brands for paint.
Do not get Reeves or Marie’s paint or paper, or paper/paint from the $2 shop
Paper for Wonders of Watercolour
Fabriano 300 gsm cp rough, 100% cotton, 2 sheets for the term
A3 pad of Fabriano watercolour paper, 25% cotton, 300 gsm size.
Also sketching paper A4 size is ok
Paper: for experienced artists: watercolour paper, 300gsm cold press rough 100% rag (cotton). My preference is Fabriano paper; Arches or Saunders Waterford are also great papers. Cheap papers will not take the water. 2 full sheets for the term. You will also need an A3 pad of Fabriano 25% cotton.
Brushes:.
A Colineo Da Vinci Brush size 20 ( or 24 if available)
OR A 20/22 cosmotop mop Code DV 5580/22
And a smaller colineo, size 10
or Code DV 559808 12/14 watercolour brush (da vinci is a great brand)
Lidded plastic palette Expression Palette, lidded EX 18568
Kneadable rubber
2B graphite pencil
board for attaching paper this can be corflute or similar, about A2 size.
Masking tape
Bring from home: ice cream container and a smaller one which will fit inside this, for water, old towel, (not paper), a sketch book A4 size.