This afternoon I taught the basic watercolour class at KAGS and with this class all my students had never painted in watercolour.
I had them start with small paintings no larger than 8" x 10" which is a lot less intimidating that doing a first painting on a piece of 11" x 15" (a quarter sheet) watercolour paper. This way they can also finish the painting within the three hours of class time and can have another painting started.
Grey Day 1
I also limited the number of paints used to a maximum of three colours in order for my students to learn the wide variety of colour combinations they could achieve with a few colours. In this case we used burnt sienna, raw sienna and French ultramarine blue.
I had these two samples of skies using various mixes of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna that I did with another class (see post on 11 December 13) and then showed the class how to do various types of clouds and allowed them to make a choice for their painting of how they would like the sky.
While their painting was drying I showed them how to put in the trees lightly with pencil and how to mix the colour for painting the trees.
After my students completed their painting I gave them homework. To do the another two more paintings using different combinations of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna for the sky only and that next week we would learn about putting in water, rocks and different types of trees.
Grey Day 2
If you would like more information about OSWOA please go to my post on 12 March 2010.
The OSWOA shown here are original watercolour paintings using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. They are priced at $40.00 each and sold unframed.
