04/01 Concepts in Watercolor and Developing the Individual Artist

This class is designed for advanced watercolor students interested in learning new techniques such as combining watercolor with gouache, soft chalk pastel, and lifting techniques that instructor Robin Scholl has developed and taught for many years at PAL.

Description

Skill Level: Intermediate

This class is designed for advanced watercolor students interested in learning new techniques such as combining watercolor with gouache, soft chalk pastel, and lifting techniques that instructor Robin Scholl has developed and taught for many years at PAL. Traditional concepts such as composition, value, color-layering with washes, and watercolor handling are also taught.

This is a friendly class with gentle motivation and guidance. Students work from their own landscape photos and are encouraged to plan and prepare their paintings with a value drawing before the painting process begins. The instructor asks that new students come prepared with a 4 x 6 landscape photo, preferably their own. Class materials will be reviewed at the first session.

Supply List

Materials List- Robin Scholl Watercolor Class

-1 or 2 sheets 22x30 Lanaquarelle Rough w/c paper ( available from Instructor ( $10 each, Dick Blick, or Cheap Joes. For beginning students, a high quality rough watercolor block ( medium sized, will be fine for exercises. )
  • #26 Round Watercolor Brush- Goliath by Robert Simmons is good.
  • #10 or #12 Round Watercolor Brush
  • Very small detail brush
  • Wide, flat , paddle handled wash brush, 3-4”. ( available at paint stores)
  • Plastic Tray for paints with lid and at lest 20 wells. ( Robert E. Woods is a good one)
  • Water Container
  • Masking Tape
  • Painting Board
  • Cloth Rags
  • W/C Paints : For beginners, 4 or five colors from the following list will suffice for the exercises. Later on in the class, you can add more colors as needed.
  • A more extended list of all the colors on my palette is here:
 
1. Cerulean Blue
2. Manganese Blue
3. Cobalt Blue
4. Indigo Blue
5. Sap Green
6. Olive Green
7. Chinese White
8. Hookers Green
9. Naples Yellow
10. Juan Brilliant
11. Van Dyke Brown
12. Alizarin Crimson
13. Raw Umber
14. Cadmium Yellow
15. Burnt Sienna
16. Sepia Brown
17. Permanent Magenta
18. Aureolin
19. Gamboge
20. Yellow Ochre
 
Other Supplies:
-Chalk Pastels ( soft). Rembrandt makes a nice Landscape Set)
- Your own photos for Landscape or someone who has given you permission to use theirs.
 
Drawing Materials ( Needed when you begin to paint landscapes, for planning out your painting and values sketch)
 
-Small pad of drawing paper
- Several Graphite Drawing Pencils( B scale)
- Several Pitt Graphite Sticks ( scale 6-9)
- Several Kneaded erasures
- Several Blending Tortillons
- Drawing Board

About the Instructor

Robin Scholl has been painting in her Los Altos studio and teaching at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto for more than 35 years. She is known for impressionistic landscapes with a focus on light and color in the natural world. She works from photographs taken during her wide travels and favorite California scenes, using four media: oils, watercolor, watercolor with pastel, and watercolor with gouache. Her signature layered technique builds up the media, creating movement and depth uncommon in watercolors.

She holds a B.A. in studio art and a teaching credential in arts instruction from UCSB. Her classes in watercolor and pastel are popular favorites at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, where she served on the Board of Directors for seven years. She has been affiliated with galleries across the country, from New York to Carmel, California. Her work has been commissioned for large scale by corporations and recognized in four different statewide competitions at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, as well as in juried shows at the Santa Cruz Art League and the Pacific Art League. Scholl exhibits currently at Fast Frame Gallery in Los Altos, the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, the Portola Gallery in Allied Arts in Menlo Park, California, and online at RobinScholl.com.

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