Watercolor Foundations
Adult (Ages 16+) | This program has been canceled
8 Wednesdays, 7:00-9:30 pm
Work with still life, landscape, and some abstraction to learn concepts and strategies used in traditional and contemporary watercolor. Beginning with demonstrations and guided exercises in washes, layering, wet into wet, and color mixing, demystify the watercolor process. Utilize various techniques to resolve issues of light and shadow, volume, space and depth, texture, and transparency. For beginning to intermediate students.
- Please see the suggested supplies list for this class below.
- Please note that instructor, Luba Shapiro, will be filling in for Marjorie Glick this term.
- If you already own watercolor supplies, there is no need to go out and buy these but if you need paint, or want to supplement what you already have the materials below are what I recommend. Regarding paints: If you are on a tight budget you need only purchase the paints with a *. Keep in mind that without the other colors you'll have limited color mixing capability but you can get by.
- Paints: Artist grade Winsor Newton Watercolors: 5ml or 14 ml tubes
- Cadmium yellow deep
- Cadmium Yellow Pale*
- Scarlet Lake*
- Permanent Rose*
- Perylene Maroon
- Winsor Blue (green shade)
- Winsor Green (blue shade)*
- Cobalt Blue
- French Ultramarine Blue*
- Burnt Sienna*
- Sepia*
- Indigo
- Brushes: Bring what you have. I recommend : #8 and #18 nylon watercolor brush with point
- Paper: 3 sheets of Arches watercolor paper in 140lb cold press, 22"x30", with one sheet torn into halves or quarters for first class
- Palette: White china plate or large rectangular palette, John Pike or equivalent
- Other: absorbent paper towels, #4h pencil, mars white plastic eraser, 2 water containers
Luba Shapiro Grenader
Luba holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and BFA from the Art Institute of Boston. Her primary work consists of mixed-media figurative drawings and small installations, incorporating various found fibers, papers and wood. In her work, she explores such themes as politics of motherhood, women and war, and currently, the gender and nationality-based oppression she experienced growing up under Soviet regime in Russia. Her work has been a part of various shows, locally and nationally. She has also been a part of the Mixed Media and Mothers/Artists Collectives.