Keeping it Loose in Watercolor

09/09/2025 - 09/30/2025 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Level: All

Price

$222

Member Price

$188.7

Material Fee: 8

Room: 106

200 Grant St Denver

Introductory watercolor experience needed

Teaming up water, paint, paper, and brush can create a loose, expressive painting but without planning it can become a muddy mess. Combining structure with spontaneity, learn to paint shapes, not objects, to capture the essence of the subject. Discover how spattering, scumbling, and liberal use of white paper contributes to more movement and energetic effects. Practice bold confident brushstrokes, paint drips, and color mingling to communicate visually with suggestions rather than precise detail. Let loose to create novel paintings that breathe with freedom and fluidity! In addition to developing skills using color, value, shapes, and edges, students will feel confident using a variety of painting techniques and gain and understanding of movement in a painting.

Reference material will be provided. Introductory watercolor experience needed.
WEEK 1: White House with Flowers and Blue Trees
WEEK 2: Windowsill with Bouquet
WEEK 3: Intimate Window with Ivy and Flower Pot
WEEK 4: Greek Street Scene with Whitewashed Buildings

Dennis Pendleton

Watercolor palette with lid

Watercolor paper or watercolor block (9”x 12” or larger) - 140lb cold press

Watercolor brushes (#6 and #8 round, 1” to 1-1/2” flat)

Water container spray bottle

Tissues without lotion OR paper towels

Watercolor paint colors including:

Cadmium red

Alizarin crimson

Cadmium yellow

Lemon yellow

Yellow ochre

Burnt sienna

Raw umber

Olive green

Cerulean blue

Ultramarine blue

Cobalt violet

Mineral violet

Keeping it Loose in Watercolor

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