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Lessons 12-24

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LESSON 12

Watercolor on Heavy Gesso

with Michaelin Otis

MATERIALS LIST

Strathmore 500 Heavyweight Vellum

Grumbacher Gesso

Colors Used:

  • Raw Sienna
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Cerulean Blue
  • Carmine (or Alizarin Crimson)

 

See more Michaelin @ https://michaelin.com/

Follow Michaelin on Facebook 

LESSON 13

Elegant Writer Onions

MATERIALS LIST

  • Extra fine-tipped elegant writer pen 140# Arches paper
  • Facial tissue without lotion
  • Ruler
  • HB pencil
  • Archival fine tipped black pen, size .05.
  • Round brush, any size, I prefer a # 8.
  • T-square, transparent plastic preferred
  • Quinacridone Sienna
  • Nicole Azo Yellow
  • Salt

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

LESSON 14

Color My World

with Karen Knutson

MATERIALS LIST

  • 140# Arches paper
  • Ruler
  • HB pencil
  • DaVinci Red Rose Deep (or Winsor Newton Permanent Rose)
  • New Gamboge
  • Antwerp Blue

 

See more Karen Knutson:

Visit Karen at www.karenknutson.com

Order her video Creative Catalyst

 

LESSON 15

Watercolor Pours & Negative Painting

with Jennifer Stone

MATERIALS LIST

  • 300# Arches paper
  • HB pencil
  • Watercolor Pencils
  • 100 grit Sandpaper
  • Fine Mister

Colors Used:

  • Pyrrol Red
  • French Ultramarine Blue
  • Cobalt Blue
  • New Gamboge
  • Cobalt Blue

 

See more Jennifer Stone:

Visit Jennifer at www.jenniferstoneartwork.com

Follow her on Facebook

 

LESSON 16

Spontaneous Flowers

Karlyn Holman in Spain

MATERIALS LIST

  • 140# Arches paper
  • Staedtler black permanent pen

Colors Used:

  • Quinacridone Burnt Orange
  • Quinacridone Gold
  • Antwerp Blue
  • Nickel Azo
  • Winsor Yellow
  • Alizarin Crimson

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

LESSON 17

The Crinkle Technique

with Mary Beth Downs

MATERIALS LIST
  • Masa Paper
  • Yasutomo Black Sumi Ink
  • Hake Brush
  • Arches 140# press
  • SureGrip All-Purpose Adhesive And Wall size

Colors Used:

  • Cobalt Blue
  • Quinacridone Burnt Orange
  • French Ultramarine Blue

 

See more Mary Beth Downs:

Visit Mary Beth at https://www.artcellarduluth.com/

Follow her on Facebook

 

LESSON 18

Less is More

with Karlyn Holman

A 3 Part Series Filmed in 3 locations

MATERIALS LIST
  • HB pencil
  • Archival ink pen, I used a Staedler, Mars Graphic black pen
  • 140# cold press watercolor paper
  • Watercolors

Colors Used:

  • Cobalt Blue
  • French Ultramarine Blue
  • Indigo Blue
  • Manganese Blue Hue
  • Permanent Magenta
  • Quinacridone Gold
  • Raw Sienna
  • Scarlet Lake
  • Winsor Orange

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

LESSON 19

Pouring into Less Is More

with Karlyn Holman

MATERIALS LIST
  • Pipette
  • Woody Watercolor Pencil
  • #8 Round Brush
  • 1 1/2 Flat Brush
  • Daniel Smith Metallic Watercolor (Can be replaced with DANIEL SMITH Acrylic Iridescent Gold Gesso)
  • 140# cold press watercolor paper
  • Watercolors

Colors Used:

You can choose to use any colors you want. Karlyn specifically used earth rich colors to achieve the granulated look. 

  • Lunar Black
  • Incandescent Russet

 

LESSON 20

Collage Paper Abstract

with Karlyn Holman

Filmed in front of a live audience

MATERIALS LIST
  • Gelli Plate
  • Brayer
  • Tissue Paper
  • Fine Mister
  • YES! Paste
  • Stamps (optional)
  • Stencils (optional)
  • Designer Napkins (optional)
  • leaves (optional)
  • Household plates (optional)
  • Watercolor Pencils (optional)
  • Sandpaper (for color sanding)
  • Canvas (optional)
  • Cold Press Watercolor Ground (for preparing the canvas)
  • Acrylic Spray or Dorland’s Wax
  • 140# cold press watercolor paper
  • Watercolors

Colors Used:

  • Magnesium Blue Hue
  • Phthalo Green
  • French Ultramarine Blue
  • Winsor Orange
  • Cobalt Blue

 

 

Bonus Lesson

Make Your Own Collage Papers

LESSON 21

Journaling

with Sue Primeau

“Watercolor on Fire”

MATERIALS LIST

Journal (Sue is using Canson Mixed-Media Journal)

Pencil

Micron or Sharpie Pen

Elegant Writer

Watercolor Pencils

ArtGaf Water Soluable Graphite

Aqua Pen

Karlyn’s Gallery also carries the Watercolor Trave Kit

 

See more Sue Primeau:

Visit Sue at www.teamingpondinc.com

Follow her on Facebook

LESSON 22

Semi-Abstract Landscape

FOCUS OF LIGHT

with Karlyn Holman

MATERIALS LIST

 

  • Fine Mister
  • Stamps (optional)
  • 140# cold press watercolor paper
  • Watercolors
  • Table Salt
  • Flat Brush
  • Wax Paper
  • Palette Knife

Colors Used:

  • Aureolin Yellow
  • Quinacridone Coral 
  • Quinacridone Burnt Orange
  • Quinacridone Gold
  • Winsor Yellow
  • Phthalo Green
  • French Ultramarine Blue
  • Cobalt Blue
  • Indigo Blue

 

LESSON 23

Improvisational Watercolor

with Bonnie Broitzman

ABOUT BONNIE

Bonnie is guided by her spiritual journey and expresses her paintings and poetry with a meditative, intuitive and spontaneous approach. She listens to her intuitive voice, and this trust in her inner self allows her to paint in an improvisational approach, allowing the colors and shapes to evolve into a finished painting. 

Bonnie will share her insights into creating a painting by intuition. Bonnie has created her lovely paintings by wetting the paper, applying the color and just letting the images appear.

She will narrate and demonstrate her approach to letting a painting happen as she is in a meditative mood.

Materials are simply paint, brushes and paper.

Bonnie is an intuitive/meditative artist who approaches painting as a spiritual experience where she trusts the paint to reveal her inner voice through the use of the elements of art. Watercolor is a perfect media for this creative process of letting fluid, free-flowing paint express her inner feelings.

Watch Bonnie as she starts with a wet mix of free-flowing color and brings these lines, shapes and colors into a finished painting. All the years of painting realistically prepared her for this artful, intuitive style of expression. This reflective style of painting is a form of prayer. Bonnie is also a poet and often writes poetry that inspires her painting subject.

MATERIALS LIST

 

  • 140# cold press watercolor paper
  • Watercolors
  • Flat Brush
  • Hake Brush
  • Kleenex or Napkins

Colors Used:

Any colors that you want. Bonnie uses the compliments of yellow and purple as the focus of this painting. 

  • Aureolin Yellow
  • Quinacridone Coral
  • Quinacridone Burnt Orange
  • Quinacridone Gold
  • Winsor Yellow
  • French Ultramarine Blue
  • Cobalt Blue
  • Indigo Blue
  • Cobalt Purple

 

David Smith

filmed by Karlyn

LESSON 24

A Menagerie of Travel

Filmed by Karlyn Holman & Renee Holman

with complimentary bonus lessons.

Bonus Lessons

David Smith

Karlyn & Barbara Barrett filmed by Renee Holman

Mat Board Sreet Scene by Karlyn

One Point Perspective by Karlyn