Wonders of Watercolours with Pauline

Class Description

Wonders of Watercolours with Pauline Smith offers students the opportunity to master their watercolour painting skills and techniques. Students new to watercolour or with only a little experience, will enjoy this course, which is designed to the learning of specific, basic, watercolour painting skills. Each week students will learn a new technique and practice learned skills. Students will be professionally guided to create bright vibrant colourful paintings. Cost Breakdown: Member: $232.75.00 Incl. GST, $33.25 per class ($13.30 per hour). Cost Breakdown Non-member: $245.00 Incl. GST = $35.00 per class ($14.00 per hour). Members: Current EAC members will receive 5% discount. Please use your membership number as the PROMO code. Prerequisites: Beginners and intermediates welcome. Supplies: Materials are available from Gordon Harris in Albany, up by the North Shore district courthouse. Gordon Harris kindly offers a student discount, please ask for it. Some paints can be purchased from Whitcoulls, Paper Plus, or Warehouse Stationery. Paint student grade is fine: Tube paints please. Ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, new gamboge, raw sienna, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, indigo or Prussian blue. Optional extras perylene green, phthalo blue, hookers green light or dark, van dyke brown Winsor Newton, Cottmans, Horodam, Daniel Smith, all reliable brands for paint. Paper for Wonders of Watercolour Fabriano 300 gsm cp rough, 100% cotton, 2 sheets for the term A3 pad of Fabriano watercolour paper, 25% cotton, 300 gsm size. Also sketching paper A4 size is ok Paper: for experienced artists: watercolour paper, 300gsm cold press rough 100% rag (cotton). My preference is Fabriano paper; Arches or Saunders Waterford are also great papers. Cheap papers will not take the water. 2 full sheets for the term. You will also need an A3 pad of Fabriano 25% cotton. Brushes: A Colineo Da Vinci Brush size 20 ( or 24 if available) OR A 20/22 cosmotop mop Code DV 5580/22 And a smaller colineo, size 10 or Code DV 559808 12/14 watercolour brush (da vinci is a great brand) Lidded plastic palette Expression Palette, lidded EX 18568 Kneadable rubber 2B graphite pencil board for attaching paper this can be corflute or similar, about A2 size. Masking tape Bring from home: ice cream container and a smaller one which will fit inside this, for water, old towel, (not paper), a sketch book A4 size.