Welcome to this beginner's watercolour class!

All you will need for this class:

a watercolour paint set, like a Winsor & Newton Cotman set, or/and a small collection of tube watercolours.
a large brush: The largest brush you own. It could be a Round or Mop brush
a large watercolour pad. Although you could do a smaller, A4 size, painting.
Lots of water!

We will be working with analagous colours (adjacent to each other on the colour wheel) Concentrating on Red to Blue.... so, Lilacs, Magentas, Purples etc.

If you have Quinacridone colours in this range, you've got a slight advantage, because quinacridones are transparent pigments, so behave beautifully. Green Gold & Indanthrone Blue are also transparent pigments!

But don't worry if you don't have exactly the same paints, as the technique we're using encourages washy loose watercolour anyway, as we're going to be using a lot of water, which can create lovely transparency.

However it is possible to work with quite opaque colours like opaque watercolours or gouache, if you add enough water to them... and it will then turn from opaque to a more of a translucent colour.

Transparency: An effect where we can see the details and colours of the layer beneath in a clear form. As light travels easily through the top layers, to allow the primary layers to take on a luminous quality.

Translucency: Creating a more diffused, gentle effect, where we can still see the layers beneath, but they are softly 'cloudy'.

Terms Relevant To This Class:

Transparency
Layers
Analogous colours

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