Watercolour with Greg Maude
Session 1: Deconstructed Landscapes
6-week class: Wednesdays,
Feb 12 to Mar 18, 2020
1:30pm - 4:30pm
$160.00
Practice painting subject matter (trees, rocks, skies and water). Then, you put it all together into your own landscape painting.
Session 2
6-week class: Wednesdays,
Apr 1 to May 6, 2020
1:30pm - 4:30pm
$160.00
Don’t be afraid of working with watercolours! This six week watercolour class will give you more confidence to focus on many of the basic techniques that make this medium challenging, yet rewarding. Landscapes will be the main focus of interest. There will be lots of demonstrations and instruction at all levels as needed. Students will also have lots of painting time to experiment with these watercolour techniques. Other artistic topics to be discussed include: value sketching, colour mixing, composition and perspective. While we will work in a group setting, students will also receive one-on-one instruction and critiques. All proficiency levels are welcomed.
A watercolourist for the past twenty years, Gregory Maude has refined his style of watercolour to the point that his muted shades of colour begin to blend together, forming interesting negative and positive shapes.
Greg has been a member of several Ontario art associations and has taught at the Oshawa Art Association and Whitby Arts Inc. He was awarded the “Samac Painter of the Year” award, becoming the fifth member of a select group of artists known as the OAA-Samac Painters. You can see his work here.
MATERIALS LIST:
Paint:
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8 small tubes of watercolour paints (Winsor & Newton Artist Quality if possible)
French Ultramarine Blue *
Burnt Sienna
Raw Sienna
Antwerp Blue
Hooker’s Green
Lemon Yellow *
Permanent Rose *
Prussian Blue
If you want to buy fewer paints to start, please pick three primary colours ( a red, blue, and yellow as show by the asterisk* above). These paints may seem expensive but they will last for a long time. A little goes a long way!
Other Supplies:
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1 Sheet of watercolour paper (140lb Arches Cold Press)
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3 Watercolour brushes: a flat (3/4”) and two rounds (#2 and #8)
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1 Bottle of art masking fluid (alternate could be liquid frisquet like drawing gum)
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1 Bottle of rubber cement
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1 Board (like Masonite wood or plastic) to tape your paper to. A good size is 16"×20". Look around your house for anything flat.
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1” Masking tape
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1 HB pencil
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Sketchbook (or paper pad) for drawing
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White soft eraser
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Kleenex and/or paper towel
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Plastic tub to hold water (margarine or sour cream containers work well)
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Plastic painting mixing tray or old white ceramic plate to mix your colours on