Opaque Watercolor/Gouache Studio (In-Person)
Adult (Ages 16+) | This program is completed
Explore gouache on panel, painting representational images from observation or using photographic resources. Gouache is an opaque watercolor paint with rich, matte color. Working on a panel provides a stable support for applying many layers, and once varnished can be framed without glass. Build technical painting skills (color mixing and mark) and consider concepts (composition and scale) as you develop paintings to convey meaning.
- The material fee included in your tuition will cover paint for use in class and up to three panels.
Students bring: Resource images (photos)/still life objects for imagery. Metal, ceramic or plastic palette/plate/butcher tray, preferably white, with enough area to put out a palette of 12 colors, and an area to mix paint. 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) #2 pencil or B to 2B drawing pencil, eraser, paper for thumbnail sketches
Vicki Paret
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/.