A watercolor class for novices, beginners and experienced students. This fun and engaging class will introduce the materials, skills and techniques used by classical watercolor and Impressionist painters. Concepts of color and light as it applies to the watercolor medium, basic color theory, brush techniques, as well as perspective and composition will be introduced. Students will paint from either still life or photographs in every class.

• Paint is pigment in a water medium
  Why is paper important
  Brushes
• Wet brush and dry brush techniques
• Mixing colors Primary colors: red, Yellow, Blue
  Whites and blacks
  Painting darks and lights: planning for the light spaces
• PRACTICE – Still life

CLASS 2. Planning your painting

Primary colors, choosing your subject, making a plan for your painting

• Composition – make your plan

Sketch your plan
Point of focus
Where are the darks and lights?

• PRACTICE • CRITIQUE

CLASS 3. Planning your painting 2

• Perspective • PRACTICE
• CRITIQUE

CLASS 4. More color mixing

• Problems, questions • PRACTICE
• CRITIQUE

CLASS 5. Composition

• painting complex shapes • PRACTICE
• CRITIQUE

CLASS 6. Painting a landscape from a photo

• PRACTICE
• CRITIQUE
• Reflections on your experience & what’s next?

Instructor: Lee Surette is from a family of artists and spent many years as a commercial artist, illustrator and advertising Creative Director. Since his 20’s he has been devoted to exploring the light and form of the New England landscape through the mediums of watercolor and oils. Lee graduated from Vesper George School of Art and was an instructor there in commercial art and illustration. He studied oil painting at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown under Henry Hensche, the renowned genius of the Cape Cod Style of American Impressionism. His continued study at the Cape School under watercolorist Lee Boynton further developed his watercolor style.

CLASS SUPPLIES

It is always best to start with the best materials you can afford. Start with the basic list. Use the expanded list as a guide for the future as you develop.