Wallingford, PA Community Arts Center
Wednesdays, 12:30 – 3:30 pm, 10/28/26-12/2/26
Improve your drawing and painting skills by painting studies of passages from master paintings, using the fun and versatile medium of gouache. Copying master techniques provides a level of understanding beyond simply looking. Study their brush work, color choices and value relationships —keys to successful painting — and learn to apply them to your own work. The textures of foliage, the sheen of water, cloud shapes, architectural forms, atmosphere, shadows and light effects — the masters had painting figured out. Using a simplified palette and basic materials, we can reverse engineer their process and improve our own skills. Let the troubles of the world go away and spend relaxed afternoons in a fun and friendly atmosphere with your fellow artistic adventurers.
Students are welcome to bring other mediums, like watercolor, acryic or oil, but i will be demonstrating in gouache and teaching how to use it as we stydy master paintings.
Materials:
Artist grade gouache paint (Winsor & Newton, Holbein and M. Graham are a few good brands, NOT Himi or “acrylic gouache”),
Colors:
Ultramarine Blue,
Cadmium Yellow Pale or Light (not “Hue”),
Perelyne Maroon (W&N) or Alizarin Crimson (“Hue” is OK)
Winsor Red (W&N), or Pyrrol Red (M. Graham) or Pure Red (Holbein),
Burnt Sienna,
Permanent White (you may want a large tube of white)
Short handled synthetic brushes labeled for mixed media or acrylic
1/2 inch flat wash (or shader)
1/4 inch flat wash (or #6 or #8 flat shader) – ideally, 2 of these
#4 or #6 round
1/2” angle
Small stiff fan (1 inch or similar)
Watercolor or mixed media paper, pad or sketchbook — (140lb / 300gsm or heavier) hot press, vellum or cold press surface, 9×12” or 8×10”
Watercolor palette with a reasonably generous mixing area, or “Masterson Sta-Wet Handy Palette”
Spray Mister bottle, for keeping palette wet
Water container – cup or jar
Presented by the Wallingford Community Arts Center
14 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086
Tuition: $255.00 (Member Discount Available)
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