More from Ian

By now, those of you who are enrolled should have received the images from Ian for the workshop. If you haven't please contact Karla at sandywatercolorinfo@gmail.com 

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WORKSHOP MATERIALS & INSTRUCTIONS

     Please come prepared to the workshop, with your drawing carefully laid out on a piece of watercolor paper to the size of 12’ x 16” or larger.  Use good quality watercolor paper (Arches or Fabriano, Blick, Lanaquarell, Saunders); 140 or 300 pound, either cold press or rough.  The paper should be secured to a firm board with tape, staples or both. Please have your drawing completed on the sheet before class begins.

     You will need a variety of good quality brushes, large and small, for washes and details respectively.  Also, bring along a medium or large size ‘stiff bristle’ oil painting ‘Fan’ brush for some special techniques.

     As to paints, a wide variety of colors can be used and adapted to our needs.  I will be using, specifically:  yellow ochre, hansa yellow, raw sienna, burnt sienna, burnt umber, cadmium red, quinacridone rose, deep scarlet, sap green, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, ultramarine violet, and pthalo green (blue shade).  I also use other colors, but more than enough can be done with those enumerated.  In addition to these watercolors, you will need a white gouache…preferably permanent white. Chinese white watercolor would also be acceptable. Don’t go out and buy loads of new paint… we can adapt to most of your colors.

     Please bring along a good natural sponge for softening and correcting mistakes.  Yes, we can fix a watercolor painting!  We all make mistakes and I will show you how to deal with them.

     Be prepared to relax and have fun. This is all about fun… this is not supposed to be a stressful experience. We will do our best to create a good painting but this class is more importantly about learning how to develop a process and techniques to produce the art that we desire to create.