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***** Attention - Class Pages Are Now By Month *****
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Don't Forget - December 31 Paint Together!
Don't Forget - December 31 Paint Together!
December Contents
December Contents
December 3 - Moonlight Madness, Wet-On-Wet, Colors
December 3 - Moonlight Madness, Wet-On-Wet, Colors
December 10 - Glazing - Wet-On-Dry (A Lot of Links Plus 3 Videos, Steve Mitchell, Mind of Watercolor, Glazing, Advanced Glazing & Pigment to Water Primer)
December 10 - Glazing - Wet-On-Dry (A Lot of Links Plus 3 Videos, Steve Mitchell, Mind of Watercolor, Glazing, Advanced Glazing & Pigment to Water Primer)
December 17 - Holiday Cards
December 17 - Holiday Cards
December 31 - Paint Together
December 31 - Paint Together
Art Quote of the Week
Art Quote of the Week
"Creativity Takes Courage" - Matisse
"Creativity Takes Courage" - Matisse
"Use the biggest brush you can for as long as you can!"
"Use the biggest brush you can for as long as you can!"
“It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.” - Hans Hofmann
“It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.” - Hans Hofmann
"Once we start to draw, all of a sudden we begin to see again." Frederick Franks, Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing
"Once we start to draw, all of a sudden we begin to see again." Frederick Franks, Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Leonardo da Vinci
"Every composition needs a vertical, a horizontal and 2 diagonals" - Tatiana Anisimova
"Every composition needs a vertical, a horizontal and 2 diagonals" - Tatiana Anisimova
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing." Cezanne
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing." Cezanne
“Value does the work and color takes the credit.” - Marie Wilkes
"A value study will save more time than it takes."
In painting, as in life, you can get away with a great deal as long as you have your values right. (Harley Brown)
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” - Picasso
Think pattern first, then drawing, then color. The character of your painting is resolved in the pattern scheme. (Edgar A. Whitney)
Plan like a turtle; paint like a rabbit. (Edgar A. Whitney)
We find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
If, when facing the paper, you say to yourself, 'I'm an artist,' you haven't a clue as to what to do! If, however, you say, 'I am an entertainer, a shape maker and an expressive symbol collector,' you know the task ahead and how to proceed. (Edgar A. Whitney)
December 31 - One Last Time To Paint Together This Year.
December 31 - One Last Time To Paint Together This Year.
It's a free for all. Paint anything you want.
It's a free for all. Paint anything you want.
Classwork Corner - December 31
Classwork Corner - December 31
Carrie
Marilyn
Marilyn
Marilyn
Berrell - John Deere Tractor with Darcie
Berrell Snow Scene
December 17 - Holiday "Cards"
December 17 - Holiday "Cards"
Next week we thought it would be fun to paint some holiday "cards"...I'm attaching a few images I snatched from the internet for starting ideas... Tape your paper off into four sections if you want to try a few of these - send as cards or use for gift tags...
Next week we thought it would be fun to paint some holiday "cards"...I'm attaching a few images I snatched from the internet for starting ideas... Tape your paper off into four sections if you want to try a few of these - send as cards or use for gift tags...
Glazing: Continuing resources: I rediscovered a book I've had for while: "Mastering the Watercolor Wash" by Joe Garcia (ISBN 1-58180-486-5). Not only great how-to's, but "when to use" each of the wash techniques. Attached are the basic how to pages and a couple examples to inspire you. On Amazon - Link Used and New
Glazing: Continuing resources: I rediscovered a book I've had for while: "Mastering the Watercolor Wash" by Joe Garcia (ISBN 1-58180-486-5). Not only great how-to's, but "when to use" each of the wash techniques. Attached are the basic how to pages and a couple examples to inspire you. On Amazon - Link Used and New
Also attached is a photo of our Daisy Eiman's Wagners Run Autumn painting - my mom took Don and me to her studio to choose a painting for our 25th anniversary ...yikes, in June that will be 25 years ago!
Also attached is a photo of our Daisy Eiman's Wagners Run Autumn painting - my mom took Don and me to her studio to choose a painting for our 25th anniversary ...yikes, in June that will be 25 years ago!
Ho Ho Ho - Holiday Ideas
Ho Ho Ho - Holiday Ideas
Giny's Samples
Giny's Salt on Wet Paint Demo
Daisy Eiman - Wagners Run Autumn
Daisy Eiman - Wagners Run Autumn
Joe Garcia - Mastering the Watercolor Wash
Joe Garcia - Mastering the Watercolor Wash
Classwork Corner - December 17
Classwork Corner - December 17
Evangeline - Guest Appearance Center Right
Linda - Winsor Red, Cadmium Red, Permanent Rose, Aureolin, Winsor Blue, New Gamboge
Linda - Winsor Red, Cadmium Red, Permanent Rose, Aureolin, Winsor Blue, New Gamboge
Darcie
Darcie
Berrell
Carrie
Carrie - From Dancing in the Wind, by Karl J. Kuerner
Looking ahead to Dec 10th: Glazing/Layering.
Looking ahead to Dec 10th: Glazing/Layering.
Another artist link on glazing...here's a link to David Dewey's gallery...his glazing is phenomenal. In this gallery link, the first half are oils, the watercolors start at his lighthouse series. I saw a few of his pieces in a Maine gallery several years ago.
Another artist link on glazing...here's a link to David Dewey's gallery...his glazing is phenomenal. In this gallery link, the first half are oils, the watercolors start at his lighthouse series. I saw a few of his pieces in a Maine gallery several years ago.
Here are a couple artists who use layering beautifully, and below are some helpful youtube demos.
Here are a couple artists who use layering beautifully, and below are some helpful youtube demos.
Catherine Hillis: warm, cool, underpaint, glazing...
Catherine Hillis: warm, cool, underpaint, glazing...
Bivenne Harvey Staiger
Bivenne Harvey Staiger
There are a lot of youtube channels...a lot are a waste of time...but I find Steve Mitchell, Mind of Watercolor particularly concise with excellent up close demos. Here are 3 episodes I recommend.
There are a lot of youtube channels...a lot are a waste of time...but I find Steve Mitchell, Mind of Watercolor particularly concise with excellent up close demos. Here are 3 episodes I recommend.
Video Links
Video Links
And this is an excellent demo/refresher on how to control/change mix of water to pigment and control water in the brush:
And this is an excellent demo/refresher on how to control/change mix of water to pigment and control water in the brush:
December 10 - Glazing - Wet-on-Dry
December 10 - Glazing - Wet-on-Dry
Dec 10: We'll introduce glazing: quite the opposite of wet in wet, it is WET on DRY. It takes patience as each layer must be thoroughly dry, but here's where your transparent colors take center stage! Below: a Daisy Eiman cabbage as an example, with several layers glazed (painted) over dry. If you look closely, her first layer separated the warm (yellow first layer) areas from the cool (blue first layer) areas. This is also an excellent example of negative painting, as you can see where she painted her top layer around the veins of the cabbage so they remain lighter than the top layer...but that's for a different lesson!
Dec 10: We'll introduce glazing: quite the opposite of wet in wet, it is WET on DRY. It takes patience as each layer must be thoroughly dry, but here's where your transparent colors take center stage! Below: a Daisy Eiman cabbage as an example, with several layers glazed (painted) over dry. If you look closely, her first layer separated the warm (yellow first layer) areas from the cool (blue first layer) areas. This is also an excellent example of negative painting, as you can see where she painted her top layer around the veins of the cabbage so they remain lighter than the top layer...but that's for a different lesson!
Dec 10 and 17th: Glazing (aka layering, wet over dry)
Dec 10 and 17th: Glazing (aka layering, wet over dry)
Let's give this a go using the monarch photo attached. Lots of areas to vary layers of colors! If you are using around 9x12 size paper - draw the butterfly as big as you can fit, leaving enough room around for some purple flowers. I would make fewer larger purple flowers! Draw in the wing patterns (it will look somewhat like a stained glass), but we'll paint those last.
Let's give this a go using the monarch photo attached. Lots of areas to vary layers of colors! If you are using around 9x12 size paper - draw the butterfly as big as you can fit, leaving enough room around for some purple flowers. I would make fewer larger purple flowers! Draw in the wing patterns (it will look somewhat like a stained glass), but we'll paint those last.
Dec 17: Continue glazing - or anything you want.
* [We can decide later if it works to gather the 24th/31st during this "not like any other" holiday season]
Remember, to keep those paints moist, keep painting!
Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving, whatever it looks like this year.
Giny
Daisy Eiman Cabbage done with glazing technique
Daisy Eiman Cabbage done with glazing technique
Classwork Corner - December 10
Classwork Corner - December 10
Carrie
Darcie
Berrell
Linda
Linda glazing
New Gamboge, Ultramarine Blue, Winsor Blue, Permanent Rose, Winsor Red
Linda - Permanent Rose, New Gamboge, Ultramarine Blue. Background is Winsor Blue, Aureolin, Winsor Red
December 3 - More Moonlight Madness - Wet-In-Wet
December 3 - More Moonlight Madness - Wet-In-Wet
Continue working wet in wet. We'll paint the moon image again - this time using color, as most of us only got our one-color painting today.
Suggested colors might be new gamboge, yellow ochre or raw sienna for yellow (or if you are lucky enough to have jaune use that), a warm red, and ultramarine blue. If you have Neutral tint or Paynes Gray keep it handy in case you aren't getting your ultramarine as dark as you like - but it's not necessary.
Attached; References: moon photo as taken, moon photo edited to show landforms, and one painted version. (And take a look at the screen shots with all of today's (November 19th), great one-color moon paintings!)
* [We can decide later if it works to gather the 24th/31st during this "not like any other" holiday season]
Remember, to keep those paints moist, keep painting!
Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving, whatever it looks like this year.
Giny
Giny's Moon Photo
Giny's Moon Photo
Giny's Moon Photo Edited to Show Landforms
Giny's Moon Photo Edited to Show Landforms
Giny's Moonlight Wet-In-Wet Technique
Giny's Moonlight Wet-In-Wet Technique
Classwork Corner - December 3
Classwork Corner - December 3
Berrell
Darcie - Ultramarine, New Gamboge & Davy's Gray
Darcie - Ultramarine, New Gamboge & Davy's Gray
Darcie revised
Darcie revised
Classmate News
Classmate News
Linda Zug
Linda Zug
Wellesley Society of Artists Third Prize Oil
Wellesley Society of Artists Third Prize Oil
At the end of our class on hot peppers, Linda Zug mentioned her oil painting recently won in a juried show. I thought this was exciting news and I really wanted to see her painting - so I added this section. I don't know where this section is going - I don't know if other people exhibit other than Giny and Linda, but I really appreciate Linda sharing and I love this painting!
At the end of our class on hot peppers, Linda Zug mentioned her oil painting recently won in a juried show. I thought this was exciting news and I really wanted to see her painting - so I added this section. I don't know where this section is going - I don't know if other people exhibit other than Giny and Linda, but I really appreciate Linda sharing and I love this painting!
So, if anyone has something they think would fit in this section, send it along to darciefrye@gmail.com
So, if anyone has something they think would fit in this section, send it along to darciefrye@gmail.com
And again, I encourage everyone to share their weekly classwork ! It is fun to see everyone's creative endeavors as we all work to learn how to paint with these dang watercolors!
And again, I encourage everyone to share their weekly classwork ! It is fun to see everyone's creative endeavors as we all work to learn how to paint with these dang watercolors!
Thank you to those that have sent me your work. :)
Thank you to those that have sent me your work. :)
Month Content List
Month Content List
August 20 - Water Lily
August 20 - Water Lily
August 27 - Fun With Fungi
August 27 - Fun With Fungi
September 3 - Cabbages and Stepping Stones
September 3 - Cabbages and Stepping Stones
September 17 - Shadows, Pumpkins & Contour Drawing (Video - Contour Drawing)
September 17 - Shadows, Pumpkins & Contour Drawing (Video - Contour Drawing)
October 1 - Toby in Summer
October 1 - Toby in Summer
October 8 - Toby In Autumn
October 8 - Toby In Autumn
October 15 - Dancing Pears
October 15 - Dancing Pears
October 22 - Happy Hot Peppers (Video - Hans Hoffman, Push Pull Color)
October 22 - Happy Hot Peppers (Video - Hans Hoffman, Push Pull Color)
October 29 - Freewheeling -playing with colors warm cool color - 4 objects
October 29 - Freewheeling -playing with colors warm cool color - 4 objects
November 5 - Mixing Colors - Complementary Grays
November 5 - Mixing Colors - Complementary Grays
November 12 - Hot and Cold Colors
November 12 - Hot and Cold Colors
November 19 - Moonlight Madness, Wet-On-Wet, 1 Color
November 19 - Moonlight Madness, Wet-On-Wet, 1 Color
December 3 - Moonlight Madness, Wet-On-Wet, Colors
December 3 - Moonlight Madness, Wet-On-Wet, Colors
December 10 - Glazing - Wet-On-Dry (A lot of Llinks 3 Videos, Steve Mitchell, Mind of Watercolor, Glazing, Advanced Glazing & Pigment to Water Primer)
December 10 - Glazing - Wet-On-Dry (A lot of Llinks 3 Videos, Steve Mitchell, Mind of Watercolor, Glazing, Advanced Glazing & Pigment to Water Primer)
December 17 - Holiday Cards
December 17 - Holiday Cards
December 31 - Paint Together
December 31 - Paint Together
January 7 - Let's Paint Snow (Birches)
January 14 - Brrr.... More Snow (Office and Lake)
January 21 - Exploration of Legs
January 29 - Exploration of Legs ... Continued
February 5 - Exploration of Legs .... to Landscapes
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