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Description
The watercolor painting course from Gatlin International is designed to help both novices and experienced painters looking to improve their skills.
Watercolor painting is one of the most expressive artforms and has a rich tradition dating back centuries and offers unique color effects and wide range of techniques.
Throughout this intensive three-lesson watercolor painting course, you'll learn traditional techniques including the use of washes, glazes, scumbles and resists and how to combine these techniques as you develop your own personal painting style.
The course acquaints you with the various materials used by watercolor artists and how to use them. You'll explore watercolor's unique properties by creating a color grid.
You'll also learn how to choose intriguing subjects, and how to articulate your ideas into individual paintings and painting series. The watercolor paining course concludes with a look at prominent watercolor artists throughout history,
You'll also receive instruction and feedback from renowned watercolor artist Annika Connor.
Our watercolor painint course allows you to learn at your own pace, online. Enrolling is easy and 100% secure. Simply click on the registration button to get started today.
Outline
LESSON 1: Essential Knowledge for Watercolor
Choosing the right materials is essential to creating watercolor art, and in this lesson you are introduced to the paints, brushes, papers, and other tools necessary. And you'll use them right away as you will also explore color's qualities and basic color mixing, and create a color grid. You'll take an introductory look at water to paint ratio and basic mark-making, then move on to the exercise where you'll practice the fundamentals with two monochromatic pieces.
LESSON 2: Special Techniques for Watercolor
Watercolor's wide range of techniques make this medium so versatile, and you'll explore many of them in this lesson, starting with mastering your brush strokes, correcting mistakes, and tips for underpainting. You'll learn to apply flat and graded washes, create interesting dry brush effects, work with wet-in-wet paintings, and use materials like tissue, plastic, and wax for infinite looks and styles. In the exercise, you'll incorporate many of these techniques in two paintings, and even try to create a technique of your own.
LESSON 3: Creating a Body of Work
The medium of watercolor is centuries old, and there is much to be learned from prominent traditional artists. While exploring many of these important figures, you'll learn to dissect their systems and apply historical influence to your work. Subject matter is explored, including why we learn representational painting and how to engage the audience with your subjects. Development of a series is also covered, and you'll apply what you've learned in the exercise, creating your own series of works.
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 30.00 hours
- Duration of Access
Enrolled students have access to the class for six months. During this period, questions or assignments may be submitted at any time to the instructor. Each course lesson requires an average of 10 hours of study time.
- Instructor
Annika Connor’s paintings depict a fascination with beauty and decadence. They present the viewer with spaces to exist in, which are both alluring and unsettling. The paintings are infused with mystery and convey a sense of unbalance. Overall, they seem to be fragments from a daydream, and portray a longing for a time of romance and pleasure. In 2002, Annika received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied painting and philosophy. Since then, Annika has worked professionally as a painter in New York and London and participated in numerous exhibitions in California, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York. Reviews and publication of her work have appeared in Art Papers magazine, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Creative Loafing newspaper, C-Heads magazine, and in many other Internet and local publications. Annika Connor is Swedish-American with dual citizenship status. She currently resides in Manhattan where she maintains an active studio.
- Prerequisites/Audience
Courses are designed for adult learners interested in building skills and portfolio for a design career. To take the course, students simply require a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster), and any required software. For courses with software requirements, computers must meet software manufacturers' system requirements.
- Requirements/Materials Included
To take this course you'll need watercolor paints, paper, brushes, and other art supplies are described in depth and available at a discount at the beginning of the class. Supplies may vary based on student needs and should be purchased after entering the class. Basic experience in drawing and painting and a digital camera (or ability to digitize film photos) to present your artwork digitally are also necessary.
- Certification
1.5 CEU
Sessions College is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Certificate programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.
