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Getting Your Feet Wet: Watercolor for the Non-Artist taught by Monica Fogg
February 25, 2023 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Multi-Session Class
Meets via Zoom Sat./Sun., February 25+26 from 1:30-3:30pm CTVIRTUAL CLASS
No art experience necessary!
Are you a reluctant creative but desire to learn about watercolor painting? Instead of taking a deep dive, try dipping your toes into Watercolor Painting first. Have some fun, learn very basic skills and find out if this is a painting medium for you.
SUPPLY LIST
Watercolors:
A small set of tubed color or 3 tubes (Red,Yellow, Blue)
Recommended: QOR Introductory Watercolor 6 Color Set (It has a palette built into the lid) or Daniel Smith Essentials 6 tube watercolor set are a great value if you do not have any tube colors yet.
If you already have some watercolors, you will need 1 each of a Red, Yellow, and Blue such as Alizarin Crimson, Cerulean Blue, Yellow Ochre
Watercolor Brushes:
One round #10 and one flat 1” such as:
Paper:
At least 25 sheets of watercolor paper, Cold Press surface 9×12″or 7×10″
Recommended: Fabriano 1264 glue bound 30 sheet 9×12 pad or 7×10
or get higher quality with Hahnemuhle 100% cotton pad 12 sheets (you’ll need 2 full sheets and cut them down).
For testing colors/marks on:
Strathmore Kids Paint Pad or equivalent, or scrap watercolor paper if you have some.
Miscellaneous:
A flat white dish(s) or tray for mixing colors. We sell many palettes. The Jones Palette is has lots of space for mixing colors. A simple round palette can work also.
Scratch paper and pencil
cup(s) of water for rinsing brushes
paper towels
A fresh pear to use as subject.
Upcoming classes taught by Monica Fogg:
Getting Your Feet Wet: Drawing for the Non-Artist March 25+26 1:30-3:30pm CT
Ticket Instruction: You must choose a quantity to activate “get tickets”.
Instructor Bio
Monica Fogg is an artist (watercolor, encaustic, acrylic, woodcut, and lithography) and designer or fabricator (Prince, Lorie Line, Disney, Guthrie Theater, Minnesota History Center and others). She has taught courses in watercolor, drawing, painting, color theory, design, visual studies and art history. She has taught in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota for over 25 years and continues to lead groups abroad for cultural and creative endeavors.
“My personal work is informed and inspired by forms found in nature. I consider and experience the foundations of the earth as symbolic of the ‘grounding’ of spirit. Representation is distilled to form, movement, essence. The process is a dance between concept and emotion.”
