Painting With Water

Painting With Water
Intermediate & Advanced -🖌️🖌️&🖌️🖌️ 🖌️ 
Instructor: Juliana Netschert
Saturday, 10am-1pm, October 5 - November 23
8 weeks, In-person / Room 3A 
$395
 
Painting with water:  pools and wicking color, lines dissolved, paper absorption: traditional watercolor into new media
In this class, each session will focus on a particular medium or combination, with an emphasis on experimentation and recording the process.  Each student’s findings will be preserved in a notebook for future reference. Students will use traditional gum arabic-based watercolor in comparison with liquid watercolor, acrylic inks, fountain pen inks, shellac-based inks, fluid acrylic paint, and water-soluble pencils, and will experiment with the possibilities of layering and mixing all media.
 
Who this class is for: Recommended for those who are not averse to starting at the beginning with some materials,  but have had experience with watercolor.
 
Materials List - These are the materials you will need for this class.
Please order/acquire these items ahead of the first class/ before classes begin
cold press watercolor pad 70lb or 140lb – recommend Strathmore or Canson
3-ring binder (A record of class work will be kept in a binder,  paper to go into a binder, approx. 8 x 11 inches or cut down to this size,  clear sheet protectors for each sheet or holes can be punched in paper to put into the binder)
 
Dip pen: Nib holder plastic or wooden; “spoon” shape nib ( “bowl” shape ) NOT calligraphy nibs
bottle fountain pen ink (Monteverde great ink, available from JetPens ) – color brown or blue best
bottle India or Sumi ink – color black (shellac or lacquer-based ink ( not acrylic ) Brands:  Higgins black India ink, Dr. Ph Martin’s Black Star India Ink; Sumi Ink  )
bottle, Dr PH Martin acrylic ink – color black
bottle, Dr PH Martin acrylic ink – color white
bottle, Fluid Golden acrylic paint – color white
bottle, Liquitex acrylic ink – color white
 
Pipettes
Brushes: soft, round, #5, #10
                white nylon bristle #5, #8, #12
 
plastic knife
pencil
fine ballpoint pen
ruler
palettes: lids from plastic containers work fine ( yogurt, butter, etc )
Paper towels - WSS does not provide these for personal use in the classroom
water containers
hair dryer
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These can be ordered/acquired after the first class when materials have been explained.
True watercolor (not gouache ) must be gum Arabic based Can be tube or pan ( best: Sennelier, Schminke )
Optional fine point markers – black and colors ( LePen, Staedtler, Pilot, etc )
Optional: watercolor pencils – Derwent Inktense best
 
Dr. PH Martin liquid concentrated watercolor or Hydrus liquid watercolor: Sets or individual bottles:  must have red, blue, yellow, violet, orange, and brown
Dr. PH Martin colored acrylic Bombay inks: Set or individual bottles:  recommended red violet, terra cotta, golden yellow, blue, brown
 
Liquitex acrylic ink: Set ( should include primaries ) or individual bottles: colors recommended: Rubine Red, yellow-orange Azo, cerulean blue, bismuth yellow; 
Optional but very really fun – “muted” colors - formulated to “split” into other colors in wet blends: muted gray, muted pink, muted turquoise, muted violet, muted green
 
1-inch flat soft wash brush
 
Sennelier Shellac Ink: set (black, cobalt blue, sepia, walnut ) or individual bottles: cobalt blue/or turquoise and Senegal Yellow
Sheet, 130lb Arches cold press watercolor paper, 
foam core support
painters tape