Opaque Watercolor - All Levels

Opaque Watercolor - All Levels

In-Person: Adult | This program is completed

20 Academy Street Arlington, MA 02476 United States

Main Classroom

Beginning and Up

4/9/2019-6/4/2019

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260.00 USD

Member Discount Available

35.00 USD

8 Tuesdays, 1:00 - 3:30 pm

Create representational paintings using gouache, a versatile, non-toxic opaque watercolor. Working from still life and photographs, develop your observational skills and expressive techniques working with subject selection, composition, paint application and color mixing. Some drawing experience helpful.

  • See suggested supplies list below. Material fee covers paint provided for use in class
  • Available at Playtime in Arlington, or Blick Art Materials (stores in Cambridge and Boston, or online https://www.dickblick.com/)
  • Brushes: at least 3 different-sized round watercolor brushes – small, medium and large (i.e. synthetic sable, sizes 2, 4 or 5 and 8,10 or 12).
  • Paper for thumbnail sketches (a sketchbook, newsprint, printer/copier or drawing paper – around 8 1/2 “ x 11”)
  • Several pieces of cold press watercolor paper (at least 11” x 14”) - 140 lb. or heavier (a pad, block or individual sheets which can be cut to smaller pieces). Alternatively, students may want to experiment working on Ampersand Aquabords, a clay board surface designed for watercolor.
  • Metal, ceramic or plastic palette, preferably white, with enough area to put out a full palette, and an area to mix paint. The palette can be a flat surface with a lipped edge, or with wells to hold paint.
  • #2 pencil or B to 2B drawing pencil
  • Eraser
  • Arlington Center for the Arts will provide Holbein Gouache paint:
  • Lemon Yellow
  • Permanent Yellow
  • Naples Yellow
  • Yellow Ochre
  • Pure Red
  • Alizarin Crimson
  • Peacock Blue
  • Prussian Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue Deep
  • Burnt Umber
  • Permanent White
Paret, Vicki

Vicki is a painter and a potter with a M.A.T. from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, and ongoing education at the Harvard Ceramics Studio, Mudflat Pottery School, and Haystack Mountain School of Craft. She has been on the faculty at the Museum of Fine Arts, DeCordova Museum, and Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and until recently was Chair of the Art Department and teacher at Waring School in Beverly. See Vicki’s paintings at http://www.vickikocherparet.com/.