Watercolor Painting – Exploring and Organizing Colors

Watercolor Painting – Exploring and Organizing Colors

This class is designed for individuals that have done some watercolor painting but want to learn more about colors. Topics in this class will include using a color wheel, color relationships, and suggestions of overall color management.

Through demonstrations and individual and hands-on help you will create a color wheel using three primary colors of your choice. You will then create six small paintings using the following strategies, monochromatic, complementary, split complementary, analogous, triad, and tetrad. This will help you explore creative approaches of working with watercolors pigments and color wheel usage.

Winsor Newton Cotman watercolors, brushes, watercolor paper and related resources will be provided for the class. If you have you own colors and related resources feel free to bring them.

• Age and/or skill level: Ages 14+ with beginner or intermediate skill levels.
• Class size limit: 8 students.
• Date(s): Tuesday, Sept 11, from 6-9 PM
• Time(s): 6 PM – 9 PM.
• Location: Art Association of Oswego – located in the red building at the north end of East Fourth Street just before entering Fort Ontario.
• Cost: Instructional fee = $21 for AAO Members and $30 for non-members (payable to AAO), plus a materials fee of $10 (payable to instructor). All tools and materials will be provided. If you choose to bring and use your own materials, you do not have to pay the materials fee.
• Instructor: Robert A. Jones – Bob is a retired technology education teacher from the Hannibal School District. He began watercolor painting after retirement and has been teaching watercolor painting. This is his seventh year painting and his artwork continues to evolve through experimentation, studies and practice.
• Please direct questions regarding this class to instructor Bob Jones at (315) 343-3164 or rajones1012@gmail.com.
• Registration (using our online registration form) and pre-payment are required. You may pay online using PayPal or mail a check or money order to: AAO – PO Box 271 – Oswego, NY 13126. Payments mailed to our PO Box must be received at least 7 days before the class starts. You will receive a confirmation email once your registration & payment have been received.

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