Watercolor Journaling - Creative Freedom
August 28 to September 18
4 weeks
Art Journals give us an invitation to develop basic techniques and build skills needed to express our creativity. Join Instructor Helen Shafer Garcia for this inspiring and fun class as you start with watermedia painting and drawing techniques in watercolor/mixed media journals. As an arts educator, Helen will guide you as you explore markmaking, writing, and painting methods, creating mixed media images to build your confidence and express your thoughts. This class will focus on drawing and painting basic forms with pencil, pen and ink, paint, collage and colored pencils. Experiment with different techniques including stenciling and collage, to create additional imagery on journal pages.
Please note there is an additional $15 supply fee due at workshop for gesso, Posca markers, open acrylics, water-soluble inks, and special papers.
Supplies Students Bring: Brushes: 1 or more Watercolor Round #12 or #14 and 1 or more Flat Acrylic Brushes; Water Container; Paint: 8 or more colors; Personal Watercolor Palette (avoid round opaque palettes - they are too opaque and flat); 1 Waterproof Ink Pen: Recommend Sakura Pigma Micron 03, Black or Sepia, Faber-Castell Pitt Fine Black or Sepia; Set of Color Pencils: Recommend Prismacolor, Faber Castell Polychromes, Caran D’Ache Luminance, or Derwent Coloursoft; 2B pencil; Pad (or Journal) of Watercolor Paper (9 x 12” or larger): Recommend Stillman and Birn Zeta Series Mixed Media Journal, Arches Field Watercolor Book, Canson Montval Field Watercolor Book; Acrylic Matt Medium; 2 Tombow Dual Tip Water-Soluble Pens (black and another dark color)