Assignment

Your class project is to tackle a complicated scene and make it simple and effective using loose brushwork and strong shadows. It will also give you practice at painting water and pulling reflections into the wet page.

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Materials

The reference photo is from Pixabay and can be dowloaded using this link Venice Reference Photo

You can use any colours you like - pick your favourites. I'll be using

Winsor and Newton French Ultramarine
Winsor and Newton Yellow Ochre
Winsor and Newton Burnt Sienna
Daniel Smith Pyrol Red
Daniel Smith Phthalo Blue
Daniel Smith Phthalo Turquoise
Daniel Smith Indigo

Brushes - I'll be using a flat synthetic brush (a Neef 987 Taklon glaze 3/4 inch) and a small synthetic round Neef 970 size 3. The flat brush is important to easily get the shape of the buildings.

Arches cold press watercolour paper, 300g

HB pencil and regular eraser

Palette (I use a cheap basic one)

Board for the paper and tape to secure - I don't normally tape down but for this painting with a lot of water at one time it will be better to be taped (you don't need to pre stretch the paper).

Tissues/paper towel

Jar of water

Sharing Your Work

Please feel free to post your finished painting (or any of the stages) under "Your Project". Questions are encouraged and welcome.

The work you produce is for your own personal use - go ahead and hang it on your wall or gift to a friend but paintings from the class are not to be sold or exhibited.

Music credit Mark Willput Motion Array

Torbjörn Sjöström

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