Wednesdays, February 19 - 26, 12:00 - 3:30 pm - 2 Sessions

Learn foundational watercolor skills with a still life painting of fruit!

This Beginner's Watercolor Course is for the complete Beginner to Watercolors and also for those who want a review on the concepts below. Painting a Still Life or objects is a great way to learn how to see, draw and paint!!

First off, students will learn how Watercolor provides a magical Flow within gradients and color mixing!!

We will play with this flow which will lead to Your Confidence and Excitement in Watercolor.

We will Learn:

• How to create gradients within watercolors using the flow of watercolors.
• How to make a color wheel and mix various values/colors confidently.
• How to transfer the Still Life image of Fruit provided by Teacher to Watercolor paper.
• How to apply various watercolor techniques such as wet-into-wet, wet onto dry, dry brush, brush work, linear work, splatter, masking and other magical techniques to their drawn out Still Life to finish a wonderful painting!

The Teacher will demonstrate each step/lesson applied towards this Still Life Painting as well as walk around to give one-on-one instruction to each student at their own pace.

Students will walk away with various New Techniques of Watercolor Application, Color Mixing and their own Still Life Painting they are proud of to take home!!!!

LEVEL

Beginning

SUPPLIES INSTRUCTOR WILL PROVIDE

EXTRAS NEEDED (Instructor will also bring extras):

• Paper Towels
• Water containers (any sturdy cups) Plastic or I like medium size glass jars
• Masking tape
• 12” x 16" stiff board or cardboard to mount 9" x 12" paper onto with tape
• #2 Pencil or mechanical pencil (#2 lead) for light drawing with eraser
• Compass to make circle for color wheel or a paper plate
• 12" ruler

Misc. Supplies from home needed (If can’t find, I will have extras)

• Old toothbrush for splatter
• Blow-dryer (If you have one) - for drying layers in between

SUPPLIES TO BRING

Paints

  Brands I recommend are Winsor & Newton, Daniel Smith, Van Gogh

  Get in pan, tube, expensive, inexpensive. 

  I prefer tube paints for more pigment range, but pan paints work too.

Colors needed are…

Primary colors:

Cobalt Blue

Alizarin Crimson (Red)

Cadmium Yellow

Secondary Colors (Secondaries mixed from the primaries, but will make the chart mixing go faster):

Cadmium Orange

Hooker’s or Viridian Green

Dioxazine Purple

Note: Any extra colors you have is great, but we will be using only these 6 for the color wheel and mixing the color charts and doing the Still Life Painting.

Palette or Mixing pan needed

Watercolor Brushes

synthetic or golden taklon, short handle Round - #2, #10, Flat - 1 Inch. Rigor or script brush –for fine lines

Watercolor Paper

9" x 12” 300 grams rough texture 140 lb.

This is a good weight paper that won't warp from moisture. We will be taping down to a board  

Paper Towels

Water containers (any sturdy cups) Plastic or I like medium size glass jars

Masking tape 

12” x 16" stiff board or cardboard to mount 9" x 12" paper onto with tape

#2 Pencil or mechanical pencil (#2 lead) for light drawing with eraser

Misc. Supplies from home needed (If can’t find, I will have extras)

• Old toothbrush for splatter
• Blow-dryer (If you have one) - for drying layers in between

Local Art Stores: Meiningers, Guiry's, & Michael's 

Download the supply list

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Lara Hooper is a Colorado watercolor painter, oil painter, printmaker and educator.

Lara has a BFA and a Master’s in Education.

For the past 27 years, Lara has had a wonderful career teaching High School Drawing, Painting, Printmaking and Metal-smithing for the Jeffco Public Schools. She also taught metal-smithing and photography at Red Rocks Community College. In addition, she taught private watercolor painting lessons.

She has been exhibited in various Art exhibits including The Annual Juried Jeffco Art Teacher’s Exhibit at the Lakewood Cultural Center receiving awards for her jewelry and printmaking.

She is a member of the Colorado Watercolor Society and an avid Plein Air painter.

QUESTIONS

Please direct questions to Lara at larahoops@icloud.com.