Weekend Intensive: “Watercolor Sketching in San Francisco & the East Bay”
MARCH 6TH & MARCH 7TH
Learning Units: 14 AIA/CES LUs [MANUAL SKILLS]
INSTRUCTOR
Stephen Harby, Artist & Architect
http://www.stephenharby.com/american_artist
http://www.stephenharby.com/2009/
COURSE DESCRIPTION
For any designer, creating a watercolor sketch is both pleasurable and essential as a means of understanding what is seen or designed. Join architect and artist Stephen Harby for this intensive weekend of painting in some of the Bay Area's most interesting and exclusive architectural places. In this weekend session participants review the basic process of developing a watercolor sketch, exploring the medium of watercolor, the equipment and materials used, and various techniques focusing on the essential element of representation of space: light and shade and color mixing. Instruction begins with essential materials, media, and methods, and the subsequent sketch sessions will be spent developing watercolor views (both exterior and interior) of specific historic sites (which may include the Palace of Fine Arts, Temple Emanu El, Temple of the Wings and Maybeck's Christian Science Church in Berkeley). Emphasis will be on progressing from simple monochrome to building up a more complex color repertory.
TIME
Saturday, March 6th, 9AM - 5PM
Sunday, March 7th, 9AM - 3PM
(with one hour lunch break in between for both days)
R.S.V.P
$375 for Non-members; $338 for Members
Limited space - please email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 415.445.6700 to reserve.
MATERIALS
Summary List of minimal required materials:
Arches 140 lb cold press paper in block (20 sheets) 12 x 16"
Or
Loose sheets of the same kind of paper in similar sizes. In this case, you will need foam core or masonite boards with clips to hold the paper.
Transparent watercolor paints (not gouache!) in either pans (cakes) or tubes (small ones okay) in the colors listed above and repeated here (* only)
*Cadmium Yellow
*Winsor Lemon
*Quinacridone Gold
Yellow Ochre
*Burnt Sienna
*Cadmium Red Light
*Alizarin Crimson
Quinacridone Violet
*Cobalt Blue
*Ultramarine Blue
Antwerp Blue
Winsor Green
Perylene Green
These color names are those used by Winsor Newton in their "Artist" (as opposed to cheaper "Cotman" series). But one can use Van Gogh, Daler Rowney, Sennelier, Schmincke Horadem
Something to hold the paint. If you use tubes, then an inexpensive folding plastic palette with sections to hold and mix the paint. If using cakes you may be able to buy a set and substitute the colors they provide with the list above, but possibly not, or get an empty box that can firmly hold the cakes in place.
Watercolor brushes in either pure sable ($$$) or synthetic:
1" flat
# 12 or 10 round
# 4 or 5 round
Pencil and eraser for sketching; knife for scraping
Two plastic cups for water
Rags or paper towel for clean up
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