Calico Art - Carol Vaage

Would you like to dabble in art, but are scared stiff?

This experiential art class will introduce you to the very basics of watercolor. What paper, brushes, or paint? What happens when you add water or more water?

You will have a chance to play with watercolor on artist paper to try different experiments. Dry brushes to wet on wet. Mixing colors. (etc)

Everything will be very loose with no expectations of finished art pieces, but happy accidents do occur! This will take you from putting a toe in the water to jumping in to the ‘water’color, so to speak.

1. Brief Introduction of my art journey
    
2. Expectation for the session
   1. Materials
   2. Experiences
       
3. Materials – demo only
   1. Paints:
      1. Student versus Artist Quality
      2. Tubes (explain info on tubes)
      3. Palettes
      4. Half pans
      5. Watercolor pencils
      6. Liquid watercolor
      7. Sticks/crayons
          
   2. Brushes:
      1. Synthetic
      2. Sable
      3. Japanese
      4. Natural materials
          
   3. Paper
      1. rough, blocks, pads, sheets
      2. student grade
      3. 140 – cold press, hot press, rough
      4. 300
      5. Masa
      6. Yupo
          
4. Process
    
   1. Activate paint
      1. For palettes, spray with water or very wet brush
      2. For tube dollops, dilute with water (show grade scale)
          
   2. Brush strokes (use water and back of hand) and on 140 lb paper - (dip in water, two scrapes on an edge to remove excess water, pick up color)
       
   3. Dry Brush
      1. Tip of brush
      2. Flat stroke
      3. Pressure changes
      4. Fill in (wash)
      5. Blending colors
      6. Lifting (paint a leaf/press with paper towel)
         1. Too little water
         2. Too much water
         3. Just right
             
   4. Wet on wet
      1. 300 lb paper
      2. Puddle of water, add pigment(s) to edge of water
      3. granulating colors
          
   5. Glazing – dry and then add other colors; show reference
       
   6. Image Transfer – images ready paper clipped to graphite paper. Use a sharp hard pencil to get the finest lines.
       
   7. Free hand painting – photo prompts ready

Daniel Smith Paints

Top 6 Non-Granulating Pigments: 

• Cobalt Blue Violet
• Aussie Red Gold
• Manganese Blue Hue
• Pyrrol Red
• Indigo
• Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) for Alberta skies
   

Top 3 Granulating Pigments:

• Lunar Blue
• Bloodstone Genuine
• Lunar Earth