Step-by-Step Watercolor Techniques: Earth, Sea, and Sky

Step-by-Step Watercolor Techniques:

Earth, Sea, and Sky

Instructor: Leslie Fehling ljfehling@ 724-627-8044

Suggested supplies: The supplies for this workshop are flexible and depend on your own personal preference. Here are some general recommendations for what we'll be using:

? Watercolor paper, 140 lb. Choose individual sheets, a pad, a block, or a sketchbook. Blocks of watercolor paper eliminate the need to stretch or tape down your paper. Brands of watercolor paper that I like include Fabriano Artistico, Saunders Waterford, Kilimanjaro (from Cheap Joe's), and Strathmore 400 or 500 series. Arches is fine, too, although I personally don't care for it. Sketchbooks I like include: Strathmore sketchbooks with 140 lb. watercolor paper Strathmore Visual Journals ? Watercolor with 140 lb. paper Stillman and Birn Beta Series sketchbooks Handbook Paper Co. Field Watercolor Journal with 140 lb. paper Size is up to you, but I suggest something around 9" x 12" for the exercises you'll be doing in class.

? Watercolor paints I recommend artist's quality tube watercolor paints, squeezed into a palette and allowed to dry. Good brands are Winsor & Newton, Daniel Smith, Holbein, and American Journey. Color selection is up to you. I generally tend to use the following colors, but they are not a requirement for the class: Hansa Yellow Medium Cadmium Yellow Medium Aureolin Yellow Raw Sienna and/or Yellow Ochre Quinacridone Gold Permanent Alizarin Crimson Winsor Red Permanent Rose Quinacridone Violet Ultramarine Blue or French Ultramarine Cerulean Blue Cobalt Blue Cobalt Teal Blue Pthalo Blue or Marine Blue Hooker's Green or Sap Green Olive Green Burnt Umber Burnt Sienna Payne's Gray Opaque white (permanent white or titanium white)

? Palette The medium-sized Alvin Heritage 18-well watercolor palette is a good choice, but any number of palettes would work. Be sure your palette has a decent-sized mixing area.

? Brushes

Bring whatever size and type you like to work with, such as: Watercolor brushes, synthetic or sable. Rounds: #2, 4, 6, 8, 12 Flats: ?", ?"

Specialty brushes We will use fan, rigger, and dragon's tongue brushes, but if you don't want to buy them before class, you can borrow mine to try a technique, then decide if you want to purchase them. We will use a 1/2" stiff-bristle flat brush (an oil painting brush) for one of the techniques I'll be teaching you. For another lesson, we'll use an old worn-out stiff bristle oil painting brush with splayed bristles. If you don't have one, you can borrow one of mine.

? Miscellaneous drawing and painting supplies Bring what you have on hand. If you don't have some of these items, we can share. Pencil, regular #2 or a mechanical pencil. I prefer mechanical pencils with HB lead, size 0.5 or 0.7 Kneaded eraser and/or white retractable eraser Small natural sponge with rough "holey" texture (for texture) Cellulose kitchen sponge (for texture) Razor blade or Xacto knife with #11 blade (for scraping) Toothbrush (for spattering) Spatter screen (or a piece of window screen) Small water sprayer (to wet paints in palette and to make drippy washes) Masking fluid Toothpick or bamboo skewer Table salt and/or kosher salt Old credit card to cut up (if you have one) Scissors Piece of paraffin or white candle

? Optional drawing and painting supplies Watercolor pencils Small piece of medium grit sandpaper Palette knife (for painting weeds & branches) Painter's tape (to mask off a border around your watercolor paper)

? Other supplies for painting such as: Water containers Tissues Paper towels Hair dryer (to quickly dry a painting) Board to tape or staple watercolor paper to (if you like to use one)

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