Kate's Classes

11/7/12

Tuesday Class

Watercolor on primed Masonite prepped with Absorbent Ground (Golden Acrylic product). I used only cobalt and permanent rose in various proportions to make the purples I needed. I mixed the green with cobalt an aureolin. I did some negative painting as well as washes on the petals and the glass jar.

Colored pencil on Dura-lar Matte. I started on the black and white side with a black pencil concentrating on drawing the lights and darks (the values) to create form. I used the eraser as a drawing tool as well as the pencil.

This is the view from the color side.

11/4/12

NCBG gouache and acrylic

Gouache Ground Cherry. This is a small finished gouache painting using all the techniques discussed in class.

This is the start of a gouache painting. It is an example of mixing local color and value study approaches into one piece. I have done several passes on the flower and green pepper and one pass (or none) on other areas.

This is a start on a gouache painting. This is the local color approach and I have only made one pass so far.

NCBG gouache and acrylic

This is the start of the small gouache examples I demonstrated in class. the one on the left starts with a 'value study' under-painting. The one on the right starts with local color. See the red peppers below for further examples of this.

This is a demo (partial) of the gouache exercise sheet. The full one is below.

This is a 'local color' gouache example. I used permanent rose mixed with a little lemon yellow for the red and indigo and lemon yellow for the green.

This is the 'local color' gouache example further along. I added values as well as details. It still needs some glazing and a little more work.

This is the 'value study' gouache example. I mixed permanent rose, indigo, and lemon yellow to make a warm brown and used the gouache as watercolor for a value under-painting (similar to grisaille).

This is the 'value study' gouache example further along. I added layers and values as well as details. It still needs some glazing and a little more work.

This is the gouache exercise sheet. I gave this to you as a handout. You also have a copy of written instructions to help (and hopefully you remember most of the demo...)

11/2/12

Sertoma Pen & Ink

Pen & Ink with watercolor on Bristol Board. The one on the right is watercolor first and the one on the left is pen & ink first. Both are barley started. Micron pen size 01.

Ink wash on Bristol Board. I added a little bit of cross hatching and pointillism/stippling on top. India Ink, water, paint brush.

Cross hatching, hatching, scumbling on Bristol Board. Remember on this one I was demonstrating how to incorporate accidental splotches (as well as hatching). Crow-quill and India ink.

Pontillism/stippling on Bristol Board.

Pen & Ink over acrylic on a canvas panel. Micron Pen size 01.

Pen & Ink over watercolor on watercolor paper. Micron pen size 01.

Various pen & Ink techniques on card stock paper.

Sertoma Pen & Ink

Reference photos from class

10/30/12

Tuesday Class

Watercolor wash on primed Masonite prepped with Absorbent Ground (a Golden Acrylic product). Notice how much the color is absorbed. The ground is super absorbent and 'velvety' to work on. I used only cobalt and permanent rose plus water (wet the board first)

Acrylic tomato painting. I used more color and layered it on top of the last layer adding more vibrancy and more value changes and detail.

Colored pencil on Bristol Board. I darkened this a little with tuscan red and worked on the stem area a little Red and green made the center darker).

Colored pencil on black paper. Sorry for the poor photo (remember me telling you cp on black is harder to take pictures of...). Remember I layered canary yellow very lightly, then scarlet lake very lightly. I added some orange and then more white and yellow to the light areas as needed. I used tuscan red to add some darks. I used peacock green and chartreuse on the background. I used peacock green and tuscan red for the dark areas in the center. You saw how much I lightly layered the color (and how much better this looks in person...).

10/27/12

Thursday Class

Acrylic on acrylic 'paper'. I used a warm brown to do a value under-painting. I will layer color over the top and add details.

Watercolor on watercolor paper (Cotman 200 lb. as an experiment). I first did a value under-painting. After it was dry I started putting washes of color over the top. I will add more color and detail.

10/26/12

Yupo Workshop

Watercolor on Yupo. I directly painted the frog and background, covering the paper with color. I then started adding a few darks, lifted a few light areas, and worked a little on detail. I will continue working until I am satisfied.

This is watercolor pencil on Yupo. I dipped the pencil in water and started shading in the areas.

This is watercolor on Yupo with crumpled wax paper pressed into thje paint and left until it is dry. I then carefully added a glaze of red. I also lifted out the line and added red to it and the other line is a blown drop of red.

Watercolor on Yupo. I covered the paper with the red paint and let it dry. I transferred the drawing and started lifting out light areas and adding dark areas, details, and color as needed. There is still more to do, but it's fairly close to complete.

This is the very beginning of a painting of the woman. I will do darker skin for this one and a lighter and more textured background. This texture is from bubble wrap.