Landscapes are big, beautiful, and INTIMIDATING! Come to Nevada Fine Arts on December 11th from 12 pm-3 pm to learn watercolor techniques applied to landscape painting. You will learn painting techniques as well as some tips and tricks for creating beautiful and proportionally accurate scenes with atmospheric perspective! It will be a blast! Click HERE to reserve your spot!
Materials Needed:
Watercolor paint (dry half pans not wet tubes)- your choice, but I will list some of my favorite brands in the suggested sections.
Watercolor brushes (standard pack of 5 or more)-synthetic or animal hair. Again, your choice. I’ll list some of my favorites below.
Water cup
Clean sponge
Rag or paper towels to dry your brushes
8.5x11” Watercolor paper (any kind). You can get these as individual sheets or in a book of several sheets.
Tracing paper
2B pencil
masking tape
An image of the landscape you want to paint
Optional:
Set of colored pencils for fine detail overlay
Pigma Micron 08, 02, and/or 005 for fine detailing
Suggested brands:
Paint-I love Sennelier watercolors. I have a set of 12 half-pans. Another great and slightly more affordable brand is the Winsor & Newton Cotman series (set of 8 or more) half pans. Daniel Smith is also great. I don’t recommend some of the cheaper paint sets, not because I’m snobby, but because the quality of paint really does affect the range of color you can achieve in your painting as well as the behavior of the paint itself. It is worth spending a little more for quality paint, your artwork will thank you for it! That said, buy within your means. It is possible to paint incredible artwork with any kind of paint, low quality or high!
Brushes-In the art world, Sable hair brushes are usually the highest rated. They are also by far the most expensive. Synthetic hair brushes are more affordable and vegan, if that’s your thing! There are a lot of different brands out there so I’m going to say you choose what speaks to you. Just make sure your pack has one or two round brushes of different sizes. You want at least one small round brush with a very pointy tip and a midsized one as well.