Fast and Loose...Sunflowers

This class is designed for the improver ..but to be honest anyone can give it a go with Kate's comprehensive instructions !

Kate will talk you though step by step her paint choices,material advice,drawing advice ,practice pieces,special effects,experimentation and with tips and tricks along the way.

Her style in this video is to encourage fast and loose modern watercolours with this sunny subject matter and she will also demonstrate with experimental media and salt technique plus a section on laying in backgrounds to florals.

List of Materials .

ADVISORY EQUIPMENT

Paint comes in 1/2 pan, full pan, or tubes.

I would buy tubes from the Winsor and Newton or Daler Rowney manufacturers if you have a choice

You might struggle using pans of colour later as it is difficult to mix large quantities for skies etc but if thats what you already have then thats fine...you can always buy the odd tube of blue!

Paints I use in this video

Warm transparent yellow eg .Indian Yellow

Cool Yellow e.g. Lemon Yellow

Raw Umber (Daler Rowney)

Ultramarine Blue

Burnt sienna

Other materials used in the video

Salt,wax pastel,scalpel,sandpaper,watercolour pencils,waterspray,netting

Sky wash brush.

140-200lb General purpose watercolour paper..in the trade this is called NOT paper

General advice and equipment

Paints I use in my normal painting kit

French Ultramarine
New Gamboge /Indian Yellow (or Quinacridone gold)
Aureolin/Lemon yellow
Burnt Sienna
Rose Madder or Quinacridone Magenta
Raw Umber-I only use Daler Rowneys version of this colour as it remains dark when diluted and is non staining.If you cant find this use the darkest brown you have.
Raw sienna
Manganese blue (transparent) or cerulean

*Cadmium red and yellow
*Prussian Blue/Indigo
*Crimson Alizarin
*Colbalt

*Not absolutely necessary but can be useful!

BRUSHES-

I prefer to use Acrylic hair brushes on the whole and they are cheaper than sable!. I recommend you start off with this type.

Rounds; acrylic haired (not sable/hog)- No 12

I use Rosemarys brushes Designer range for my No 12 round (only available from Rosemarys Brushes direct)

and Pro-art Prolene Plus 007 Acrylic No 12 round watercolour brushes are great, readily available but a bit more expensive funnily enough.

Flat; acrylic haired (not sable/hog)- No 4 (and 12 or depending upon labelling- 1cm and a 2cm)

Mop headed brush (soft hair )

SUNDRIES

Drawing board-MDF or Plywood A2-3 size

Masking tape-2 inch wide- no less

Mixing palette –with flat mixing areas or white china plate and old jar lids

2 large Water containers(size of a childs seaside bucket is ideal)

Kitchen towel/paper

Pencils e.g. 2B and sharpener/rubber and watercolour pencils if you already have them

Hairdryer*

PAPER

-A selection of A4,A3, Bockingford ‘NOT’ watercolour paper- or Seawhite or Langton

preferably 140lb- 200lbs

NB If you go to any art shop –ask for advice- especially regarding papers- the whole business can be very confusing if you are a beginner.

Bren Curry

Inspiration is found everywhere.

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