You love color and landscape, and you love to paint. You love the freedom and fast dry times of acrylic, the opacity of matte acrylic gouache, and lots of translucent and transparent acrylic medium to give surprising alterations.

You also love to draw. You love the feel of making marks, you love the structure of drawing, and you love the personality of your individual line.

Water soluble wax crayons allow us to choose both! Let me show you how flexible and amazing these little sticks are, and how you can work them into your acrylic painting process at any stage.

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Who is this class for?

Artists should be intermediate - you don't have to know a lot, but know basic color mixing, and what I mean if I refer to "value" or "color temperature" and know that this is a class for those looking for a concepts-based lesson rather than painting the exact project I paint. You'll be working in your own style, from your own reference, applying what you learn in class to your own imagery.

If you want to use the same reference, you can, but I encourage you to go off on your own. This class is not about perfect technique, but NEW technique. I cover landscape strategy and problem solving, so you'll learn quite a bit about landscape, too!

What will you gain?

Incredible freedom, fun, and flexibility. A loose and painterly technique that fits sweetly into the small confines of the sketchbook, and travels wonderfully wherever you do. A way to keep a paint-y sensibility when you draw, or add the fine-tuned details that drawing does best to your painting. (You'll also learn about clear gesso, possibly modern paint's least known best friend.)

RECOMMENDED MATERIALS:

Neocolor2 Water Soluble Wax Pastels. Note: NOT Neocolor 1, these do not dissolve in water.
Have a white or off white, a deep dark, and whatever other colors you want to work with
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Blick Matte Acrylic or craft acrylic, use the palette relevant to your work
OLD synthetic brushes, 10 flat, 6 round
Clear Gesso by Liquitex
Fluid Matte Medium (I like liquitex best, use what you have)
Paper towel
Water and water container
Palette or wax paper sheet
Hardware store priming brush.
Sketchbook or loose paper, medium weight and heavier. Use sizes 9x12 and up, don't go super small for this.

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