Betsey MacDonald: The Value of Color - 4 Week Drawing & Painting class (All Levels Welcome!)

Description:

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own”, Charles Dickens. October brings us so many things to observe and draw! We’ll study natural objects such as fall foliage, vegetables and seed pods. From acorns and apples to pumpkins and pine cones, we’ll marvel at nature’s designs and study the complexity of the life around us as we create art inspired by these objects. Our observation skills will improve as we carefully study value as it relates to form and record what we observe using first graphite then colored pencils and finally watercolor. We’ll work on transitioning from value studies to color and learn how understanding values can improve our color drawings and paintings This class is designed for anyone who wants to better see the beauty of nature and use their creativity to study it both in black and white and color.

Objectives:

• Improve observational skills through drawing and painting
• Use value and color to render objects
• Acquire skills for drawing with graphite and colored pencils
• Acquire skills in the use of watercolor
• Creatively render natural objects by in a variety of media
• Learn techniques in pencil, colored pencil and watercolor
• Learn about color and mixing colors in both watercolor and pencil
• Gain a greater appreciation of the wonder all around us
• Observe, critique and discuss student work and master drawings

Materials student will need to provide: Only pencils, erasers, stumps, heavy paper ( I love hot press watercolor paper 140lb but Bristol board is great too) are needed for the first class as we’ll discuss other materials as needed also please bring a magnifying glass if you have one. Materials that you may choose to use: pencils,HB, 2B, 4B and 6B, erasers, stumps, permanent fine point felt pen, watercolor (an inexpensive tray is fine) and brushes, colored pencils. Heavy drawing paper, or mixed media paper and watercolor paper. Instructor will bring lots of materials as well.