Tutor Carol Clark
- Watercolour Beginners in running again for a third year.
- This class is ideal for beginners wishing to learn the basics of watercolour painting.
- It will also be very useful for anyone wishing to improve their technique and re-visit basic methods.
Suggestions for materials
- Pencils – HB, 3B, 6B
- Rubber
- Notebook
- Watercolour Paper – Quarter Imperial size (11 x15inches) – 140lb minimum weight NOT surface. – Loose sheets, a book or block. Bockingford or Saunders Waterford.
- A drawing board.
- Gummed tape.
- Watercolour paint – artist quality – quality rather than quantity.
- You will be learning how to mix colours from a limited palette.
- Suggestions:
- Burnt Sienna
- Ultramarine (warm blue)
- Phthalo blue (cool blue)
- Permanent Rose (cool red)
- Cadmium Red (warm red)
- Lemon Yellow (cool yellow)
- Indian Yellow (warm yellow).
- A palette – plastic palette with decent sized wells or
- A large white plate.
- 2 Water pots (jam jar size)
- Kitchen roll
- Brushes – synthetic or natural/synthetic hair.
- 1 round wash brush size 10/12
- 1 medium round brush size 6/8
- 1 rigger brush size 2 (a long thin brush)
- 1 medium hake.
Cleckheaton U3A 