Opaque Watercolor - All Levels

Opaque Watercolor - All Levels

In-Person: Adult | This program has been canceled

20 Academy Street Arlington, MA 02476 United States

Main Classroom

Beginning and Up

7/14/2020-7/28/2020

1:00 PM-4:00 PM on Tue

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160.00 USD

Member Discount Available

35.00 USD

3 Tuesdays, 1:00 - 4:00 pm


Join us for a 3 session workshop to investigate painting with gouache on panel.
Each session will explore building a painting through a different approach and imagery: gouache experimentation with a representational element, still life from observation, and landscape from a photographic resource. Work outside of the session will likely be needed to complete paintings.
Gouache is opaque watercolor with rich, matte color. Working on a panel provides a stable support for applying many layers, and once varnished can be framed without glass.
With Vicki Paret

  • See suggested supplies list below. Material fee covers paint provided for use in class. Materials fee is $35/student and is due at registration.
  • This class is available in person but will be moved to Zoom online if we are still required to socially distance. If this class goes online, you will not need to pay the materials fee and you will need to purchase guache/opaque watercolors, paper, and brushes. See list below.
  • 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/.