Monday Classes in Menlo Park

Watercolor –Winter 2011
Little House
Mondays 9 – Noon
January 24 – March 14

no class February 21
class page is at http://www.facebook.com/WatercolorClasses
January 24 Wet in wet warm up exercises
positive and negative flowers
bring watercolor supplies and your  imagination
January 31 Lesson: Composition formats using value shapes
Subject: snow scenes
bring reference photos of snow scenes
February 7 Lesson: Painting with a limited palette – using only three primary colors
Subject: your choice – any subject
bring reference material
February 14 Lesson: Using color to move eye through painting
Subject: still life with reflective surfaces (metal, glass, plastic)
bring still life set up with bit of color , camera
February 21 no class
February 28 Lesson:  Using whites to lead the eye through a painting
Subject: architectural subject – building or street scene
bring reference photos, tracing paper
March 7 Lesson: Line Extension
Subject: abstract beginning with a food photo collage
Bring photos of food, scissors, glue, cardboard
March 14 Lesson: sketching with pen and ink and wash
Subject: children
bring as many photos of children as possible for timed exercises