Intro to Watercolor and Creating Your Own Paint
When:
Friday, Apr 11, 2025 3:00p -
Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 7:00p
Friday, Apr 11, 2025 3:00p -
Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 7:00p
Where:
The Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts Schoolhouse
Art Room, 24 Eliot St.
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Admission:
$215
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Classes, Photoworthy
Event website:
https://eliotschool.org/classes/intro-watercolor-and-creating-your-own-paint-1s25
Learn the fundamental process of creating your own watercolor paints from scratch like artists of the past. This will include grinding pigments, mixing with a binder, and formulating their desired color palettes. We will take a look at the properties of different pigments and how to prepare and store the watercolor paints properly.
Using a paint muller and slab to mix our paints, we will select from the different powdered pigments to develop a custom watercolor palette. We will create a color swatch of each color we make throughout the first day.
The painting portion of this workshop will focus on fundamental techniques like color mixing, brush control, wet-on-wet application, and layering to create simple compositions while becoming familiar with pigments, materials, mediums, and paper types. We will use our reference swatches to inform a couple of rough compositions and end the workshop with the creation of a final painting.
