221025 Beginning Watercolor (Part 2) with Lee Edge
Dates: October 25 and November 1 & 15, 2022
Time: 8:45 to 12:00 pm
Location: Chota Classroom A
Prerequisites: Some experience with watercolor
Contact Information: paintingsbylee@gmail.com
Cost: $60
Class Size: Min 6 Max 12
Sign-up: Registration is now closed. Contact Lee directly to see if you can be added to the class.
Deadline: October 4, 2022
Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 14 days prior to the start of the class for a full refund. There will be no refunds within 14 days of the class unless spot can be filled from wait list. To cancel, fill out the class refund request form.
Class Content: This class is a follow-up from Part 1 although anyone with some prior basic knowledge of watercolor may join. In these sessions participants will: create a double or quad wash using a wide watercolor brush to create a beautifully blended color combination upon which to create a landscape or seascape. Another goal of the class is for members to create a stunning layered-leaf painting using a negative painting technique. Demonstrations and individual suggestions are shared with the class members.
Supply List:
- Paints:
- Students from Part 1 may use their Prang, Semi-Moist watercolor pan paints, 16 color set but also need to bring these colors in tubes:
- Raw Sienna (Daniel Smith ONLY)
- Paynes Grey (may be Holbein, Daniel Smith, Winsor/Newton…not student grade paints).
- If new to class, please bring:
- Raw Sienna (Daniel Smith ONLY)
- Paynes Grey (may be Holbein, Daniel Smith, Winsor/Newton…not student grade paints).
- Quinacridone Red
- Aureolin Yellow.
- If you have other colors, feel free to bring them, if they are a good brand.
- When purchasing paints, buy better brands, above student grade. (Brands referenced above are not student grade.) Student grade or inexpensive paints often have lots of filler and less pigment, which lead to disappointing results.
- Students from Part 1 may use their Prang, Semi-Moist watercolor pan paints, 16 color set but also need to bring these colors in tubes:
- Watercolor Brushes, may be synthetic or sable…size 2, 4, 6, 10 and a Princeton Neptune 1 1/2 inch flat wash brush/mottler. Buy Princeton or similar… a good synthetic brand.
- Paper: 1 sheet of 140 lb. Rag Watercolor Paper (no pulp filler); Lee will provide this for a fee, maybe $8 + tax, paid in class; Will try to get a good deal on good quality paper and pass it on to you.
- Masonite or other board with a white plastic surface; If requested, Lee can provide this for a fee, ~$3 – $4 paid in class.
- Palette (two white ceramic dinner size plates, from resale shop?)
- 2 containers for water (e.g. large yogurt containers.. can be larger)
- 1 Roll of paper towels
- 2″ wide packaging tape
- 12″ ruler
- Graphite Pencil (artists, or Dixon or Ticonderoga — graphite not synthetic “lead”).
- Grey kneaded eraser
Biography: Lee has two degrees in art from Moore College of Art/Design, and Tyler School of Fine Arts Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. She taught art in public schools for more than 30 years in various states, including Advanced Placement classes. Lee has been recognized for outstanding teaching in Ohio (Outstanding Ohio Art Teacher Award) and in VA (three time recipient of VA Governor’s School for Visual Arts Outstanding Teacher Award). Her students have been recognized with local, state, regional, and national awards.
Lee is a long-time member of AGTV, having taught numerous classes over the years. She is a member of the Knoxville Watercolor Society, and a signature member of both the TN Watercolor Society and the Southern Watercolor Society. Numerous awards have been assigned to her art: locally, regionally, statewide, and natinally. Lee has taken workshops with: Cheng Khee Chee, Paul Jackson, Mary Whyte, Kathleen Conover, Ted Nuttal, Brenda Swenson, Soon Y. Warren, Lian Quan Zhen, Charles Reid, Jean Pederson, and others.
COVID Protocol: Individuals are invited to wear face masks based on their own comfort level.