This "class" is based on the popular workshops I have given over the years. I will change the subject each month or so if I get enough feedback. Please let me know if you enjoy the instruction and feel free to e-mail me a picture of your attempt of the painting (small file only please) for a critique.
WATERCOLOR SUMMER SUNFLOWERS: Colors: cerulean blue, cobalt blue, French ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, permanent rose, cadmium red (not medium shade), cadmium yellow (not medium shade), new gamboge yellow, cadmium orange, raw sienna, burnt sienna, burnt umber, sap green. Procedure: draw flower shapes including the leaves. Flowers: Wet the flowers. Starting with a light shade of new gamboge yellow, paint flower petals. Using new gamboge yellow/cadmium yellow, paint areas of flower petals for richer tone. Next paint the petals in shadow with cadmium red/cadmium yellow. Add a shadow color with ultramarine blue/alizarin crimson into new gamboge yellow. To brighten color, glaze cadmium yellow over areas of the petals you wish to brighten (areas must be absolutely dry to avoid lifting underlayer). Paint centers with raw sienna and cadmium yellow for the lightest areas and burnt sienna/raw sienna for the medium tones. Center darks (shadows) are burnt umber/ultramarine blue/alizarin crimson. Paint leaves in light by first wetting them and using sap green/raw sienna. Darks for leaves in shadow are sap green/ultramarine blue/alizarin crimson. Final Details: Lift with barely damp brush to enhance the effect of light on curving areas of petals. Using a small brush with shadow tone, add darks between petals to show overlapage. Background: Wet entire background being careful not to get water into painted flowers and leaves. Using cerulean blue/cobalt blue, vary the tonal background by using more cerulean blue in some areas and more cobalt blue in others. While damp, add permanent rose in some areas to add interest.
SHIMMERING SEASCAPE In Oils or acrylics. Colors: Cobalt Blue, French ultramarine blue, naples yellow, yellow ochre, raw sienna, burnt sienna, burnt umber, permanent rose, cadmium red light, titanium white Procedure: Drawing Referring to painting, draw horizon line and placement of rocks, waves, etc., with watery neutral gray made with mixture of cobalt blue/burnt sienna or paynes gray. (Hint: Water is always level so to keep the water/horizon line straight, use a ruler, measure down from top of canvas to where water and horizon meet and place a mark. Do this on both right and left sides and in the middle then connect the marks with a horizontal line.) Sky: Using white/naples yellow/raw sienna paint lower horizon area with more white in the center. Add this same mixture to areas on the water’s surface to represent reflected light (reserve some of this color). Add very little cadmium red light to lower left of sky directly into the yellow on the canvas. Use cobalt blue/white/burnt sienna for upper sky area adding permanent rose as it approaches the lighter yellowish lower horizon area. Soften sky with dry soft, fluffy brush (hake) by gently dusting over upper part of sky. Clouds: Using cobalt blue/burnt sienna place cloud shapes and add permanent rose in some areas. Soften with dry soft, fluffy brush. Add lightest areas to tops of clouds with white/naples yellow and pure white over cloud closest to light (left center). Water: Using cobalt blue/burnt sienna at horizon line, paint distant water trying to keep line going straight across. Continue adding this gray/blue mixture showing swirls, ripples and waves in the water working around the light yellows that were applied earlier. The shadows of the closest waves should be darker. Using the sky color; cobalt blue/permanent rose, paint the water where it is approaching the shore. Directly in front of that, place cobalt blue/white representing thin standing water from a previous wave. Sand: Using yellow ochre/cobalt blue/white, paint the wet sand allowing some of the blue to show in places for standing water. Soften edges where they meet. Rocks: Using ultramarine blue/burnt umber, paint in angular rock shapes. Add small amount of cobalt blue/white for texture and dimension. Final Details: Add pure white to surface of water, left center, indicating reflecting sunlight. To emphasize the wet sand and contrast, paint white in areas of the foreground sand around the rocks near center. Using a small brush, add a dark line suggesting the water’s edge.
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