428-Exploring Watercolor
In Person | This class is completed
Have you dabbled in watercolor and want to take your skills further? Join watercolor artist Aprajita Lal for an enjoyable, engaging class that builds on your foundational techniques while exploring your own creative style. Painting from photographs or still life, and in class demonstrations, intermediate watercolors will help you gain confidence, experiment without fear, and bring your artistic ideas to life. Each session offers a chance to play, learn, and enjoy the magic of watercolor.
140 lb Arches watercolor paper or equivalent, minimum 9"x12"
Mounting board and tape, unless using a watercolor block
Round brushes, sizes 8 and 12, flat wash or mop brush 1" size
Watercolor sketchbook for experimenting and notes (optional)
pencil and eraser
Paints - I use Winsor Newton, Daniel Smith and DaVinci brands. Bring your favorite colors; the following colors are suggestions:
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- Cadmium yellow or cad yellow light
- Lemon yellow
- Quinacridone Gold
- Raw Sienna or Yellow Ochre
- Burnt Sienna
- Cadmium red or Cadmium red light
- Quinacridone Rose or Permanent Rose
- Alizarin Crimson
- Winsor (Dioxazine) Violet
- Ultramarine Blue
- Cerulean
- Cobalt
- Winsor (phthalo) Blue
- Winsor (phthalo) Green or Hookers Green
- Sap green
Palette with space for mixing colors, extra mixing palettes if needed (small butcher trays, white plastic or ceramic plates, etc.). I use a Pike palette, and don't need extra mixing containers.
Wendy Hallstrom
Wendy is a multidisciplinary artist in watercolor, acrylics, egg tempera and pysanky. She has exhibited in New Jersey and the surrounding area, and her work is in private collections. She teaches watercolor and pysanky (Ukrainian egg dying).