Thursdays, 1:00–4:00 PM,
March 14, 21, 28; April 4, 11, 18, 2024

Registration Deadline Extended: March 12

$290 RAA&M Members
$340 Non-Members

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Using a limited palette of red, yellow and blue, Caleb Stone will teach how to compose a painting with strong value contrast and good color mixing to get a good relation from warm to cool tones. Caleb will give a watercolor demonstration during the first hour, and then help participants with their individual paintings, followed by a group critique at the end of class.

Suggested Materials:

Watercolor Paints:
Cadmium Lemon Yellow
Cadmium Yellow
Raw Sienna
Raw Umber
Burnt Sienna
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red
Alizarin Crimson
French Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt Blue
Cerulean Blue
Pthalo Blue (Green Shade)

Watercolor brushes: big, medium & small rounds (Caleb suggests Golden Fleece large rounds, size 38, 32, 28.)
Watercolor paper: 140 lb. Cold Press D’Arches
Large palette (ex. Pike Palette)
Water bucket and paper towels

Additional supplies: You may want to bring a lightweight board to support your paper, bulldog clips, tape, pencils, notebook, single edge razor blades, and any other equipment you wish to use.

Registration Deadline Extended: September 29

$240 RAA&M Members
$290 Non-Members

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What is the most important characteristic of color? Hue? Value? Chroma? In this course, we will break light into its major characteristics and apply this to constructing a painting. Recognizing the shapes of shadows and the different kinds of light will allow us to create a more believable scene with a successful mood. Observe light in the landscape and make a plan! Is it an evening scene with long shadows? Is it a high key painting to describe high noon? Do you need to lower chroma to describe soft diffused light in a foggy or overcast day? We will take things step by step to examine the process of how we see.

Reference photos are welcome, but the instructor will have photos to choose from sent prior to each class. Exercises are encouraged and students are welcome to take notes or just watch. Class will be recorded and available for review for a month after the end of the class.

All levels welcome. Space is limited. Katharine will send you an invite with the Zoom link before the meeting.

Materials list:

Oil and acrylic painters:
Paint Colors: Titanium White, Ivory Black, Cadmium Lemon Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarin Crimson Permanent, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna. (Optional: Cerulean Blue, Dioxazine Purple, Viridian)

Brushes size 2 to 8 filbert and flats. Palette surface for mixing. Mediums for oil. Unstretched canvas or primed paper of choice 11x14 in. or larger.

Watercolor painters:
Paint Colors: Payne’s Gray, Raw Umber, Alizarin Crimson Permanent, Burnt Sienna, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Permanent Sap Green, Raw Sienna, Yellow Ochre, White (Gouache). (Optional: Cerulean, Hooker’s Green, Cadmium Yellow.)

Brushes size 2 to 8 flats and rounds. Watercolor palette with a large mixing area. Cold pressed watercolor paper 11x14 in. or larger.

Registration Deadline Extended: September 27

$300 RAA&M Members
$350 Non-Members

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This course is focused on techniques to push your paintings to a new level.

Find better texture, use more paint, push color, and experiment with various ways to use brushes. Learn layering techniques that all make your work richer and create edges that sing. During part of the course, we will be taking earlier paintings and giving them a new life. Come with a couple of “duds” – we all have them!

All levels welcome. Space is limited to ten participants. Emily will send you an invite with the Zoom link before the meeting.

Suggested Materials:

• Full color palette of oil paints. At least: 2 of each primary (warm and cool), plus very dark brown (ex. Vandyke brown), and white.

• Paper or glass palette

• Varied brush sizes, including 1” hardware store brush.

• Palette knives

• Thinning medium of your choice (gamsol, terpenoid, etc.)

• Linseed or walnut oil (or facsimile)

• 3 full sheets oil paper (arches guile paper) - we will tear them to make smaller exercise sheets.

• Old painting(s) that you don’t like that we can bring back to life (2 are fine)