Fun Sketchbooking Techniques Fun Sketchbooking Techniques
Fun Sketchbooking Techniques
$149.99

Materials

You may use any painting media for this class but I will be using the following Gouache materials:

  • Hot press watercolor paper, I like buying watercolor sketchbooks. Get a medium size, about 5 x 10 inches

  • Soft synthetic brushes, a mix of rounds and flats. Get at least one fine-liner/script brush

  • Water container

  • Paper towels or rag

  • Painter’s Tape

  • Pencil, Eraser and printer/sketch paper

  • Small spray bottle to keep paints wet

  • Mixing surface (I use a white butcher tray which you can buy at most art stores)

Gouache Paints + (Brand)

  • Titanium White (Any)

  • Hansa Yellow (M Graham)

  • Winsor Red (Winsor & Newton)

  • Primary Magenta (Holbein)

  • Primary Cyan (Holbein)

  • Ultramarine Blue (Any)

  • Ivory Black (Any)

Fun Sketchbooking Techniques

All levels Welcome

Class Summary

This 4 week course will teach you how to make small, full-color sketches of people, buildings and landscapes! Sketch-booking are perfect to use as references for more finished works, or as finished art in their own right!

No previous drawing or painting experience required.

Format

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Syllabus

Week 1 Slide lecture of landscape paintings and a look through Conner’s personal sketchbooks. Demo on materials, linear sketching, and learning to manipulate paint for different effects. (Washes and gradients, solid passages, textures etc.)

Week 2 Lecture on seeing values accurately and its importance in landscape. Demo of value sketching.

Week 3 Lecture on the components of color and slide examples of creative color usage in paintings. Demo on color constancy and color sketching.

Week 4 Slide lecture and demo on painting trees, foliage and clouds.

Refunds

Please contact me at least 1 week before class for a full refund. No refunds can be given after this deadline. Transfers to other classes may be possible.