Art Classes in Seattle:  Joyful Watercolor

Beginning Watercolor: Testing the Waters
No art experience required. All supplies provided.
This hands-on class is the perfect introduction to watercolor. You’ll learn how to set up your work area and arrange your palette. We’ll discuss different types of paint, brushes, and paper. You’ll get to compare student and professional grade paint, cold and hot press paper, and different types of brushes. Learn how to do dry brush, wet in wet, solid washes, and graduated washes. Discover how to mix and layer colors, and how to mix a whole color wheel from just three colors. This is a fun introduction to watercolor!

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Sketching Your Journey
Watercolor 1 or equivalent recommended. All supplies provided.
Learn tricks for creating expressive watercolor sketches on location while traveling, visiting a cafe, or from your photos after you get back home. This style of art is loose and freeing. Starting with easy drawing exercises to warm up, you’ll gradually add in detail with pen sketches. Then you'll add water to create a value painting. Upon this foundation you'll add successive layers of color to build your image. No drawing experience needed. Bring photos of a special place you've visited or would like to paint, and have fun bringing it to life. Come discover how visually exciting it can be to combine pen and ink sketches with watercolor!

Mixed Media and Watercolor
No art experience required. All supplies provided.
This is a fun class where you get to combine watercolor with a wide variety of other media. Learn how to print photos and text onto tissue paper and embed them into your painting. Build rich layers with beautiful art papers, ink pad rubbings and stamped images. Add in textures with watercolor pencils. If you love mixed media, come mix it up and see what gorgeous, layered pieces you can create with these techniques.

"I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the class yesterday and how much I got out of it. 
 
I learned SO MUCH, and came home with my brain excited and full of ideas, and even a more "painterly" way of looking at the world (I have always disliked that word, but now really get it, thanks you). 
 
It was truly a pleasure, from beginning (nervous sweaty first day of school palms and all) to the end, which came way too quickly. "
 
Mary

Celebrating Spring with Watercolor
Beginning Watercolor or equivalent experience recommended. All supplies provided.
When spring arrives the bright bold colors of the flowers are startling to our eyes grown accustom to the soft neutrals of winter. Let's celebrate the new arrivals with paint! In this class you'll be painting from photos and from real flowers. We'll be exploring the shapes, colors, and textures of flowers. This is a fun and relaxed class for continuing to develop your skills with watercolor. You may choose to do a more realistic approach or to paint expressively by painting  your emotional response to the flower. Using value washes and color opposites with great techniques for adding texture to your painting. Find out how to enhance your painting by using small details, perspective, and depth. You'll get to combine translucent layers of paint with wet into wet shapes and how this combination can create an exciting painting. Learn how to use your brushstrokes to suggest a field of flowers. Come celebrate the essence of spring!

"I just wanted to send you a little note thanking you for the wonderful classes last week. I really enjoyed everything. I had no experience with watercolors and now I feel confident in using them :) Plus, I really loved all of the techniques you showed us - very cool stuff!"

Susan

"Thanks again for three days of fabulous watercolor workshops this month.  I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute, and really appreciate your teaching style."

Susan