"Watercolor: Learning & Perfecting a Loose Style" with Alex Sharma (March 4, 2025)
WATERCOLOR: LEARNING & PERFECTING A LOOSE STYLE
with Instructor Alex Sharma
WHEN:
1-FULL-DAY
Tuesday (10am to 4pm)
March 4, 2025
WHERE:
Art League Academy
(106 Cordillo Parkway, Hilton Head Island, SC)
Imagine clear, transparent and luminous watercolors where your brush strokes make the shape and form of your subject without picky detail. Mastering a loose technique is the groundwork that will enable you to paint intuitively and creatively. Specific brush technique, transparent layering, juxtaposition of values and use of visual texture and rhythm to create your scene are the focus of this course. We will paint from life and from your reference photos. Each class starts with a demonstration specific to the learning for the day.
NOTE:
In addition to the registration fee, students should bring $20 cash to pay for use of supplies, all of which will be provided for you.
SKILL LEVEL:
This class requires zero experience. It is specifically designed for beginners!
REFUND POLICY:
Ticket purchases to Art League of Hilton Head events are final. Refunds will not be given for missed or classes/workshops.
If a class or workshop is canceled by Art League of Hilton Head a full refund will be given.
| Skill Level: | Beginner |
| Skill Details: | Join us for this exciting 1-Day Workshop designed for BEGINNERS! |
| Materials Included: | Students Should Bring $20 cash to pay for materials, which will all be provided for you! |
| Requirements: | PLEASE BRING $20 cash to pay for materials, which will all be provided for you., or, the materials below PAINTS: These are the basic colors I use and find to be indispensable. Cadmium Yellow or Lemon Yellow or another Primary yellow Cadmium Red (or orange-leaning red) Alizarin Crimson/crimson (or pinkish-leaning red) Phthalo Blue or Cerulean Blue Sap Green Hookers Green Yellow Ochre or Raw Sienna Burnt Sienna If you're planning to bring your own supplies, you probably already have all of the brushes that you need, however, it will be important to have at least one good quality watercolor brush: look for the word "spring", which means the brush won't be floppy when wet. 1-inch flat or larger #10 or #12 pointed round or larger ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: Pencil White/soft eraser Large white watercolor palette or folding palette Lidded plastic container for water (Cottage cheese container, etc) NOTE: I use a folding palette for ease of transportation of paints & palette combined. Blick Art Supplies has a good, inexpensive 4x8" plastic folding watercolor palette. SUPPORTS (PAPER) Watercolor pad or block size 11' x 14" or size of your choice, 140lb (suggested), Enough to make 2-3 paintings. Alternatively, you may wish to bring 140lb cold pressed watercolor paper in sheet form (manufacturers: Arches, Lana, Canson, Strathmore, Cotman, Grumbacher, etc). One large sheet can be cut to make several smaller sheets. SUPPLIERS: Staples has some reasonably priced and good quality watercolor paper Dick Blick Online Cheap Joes Art Stuff Online Jerry's Artarama QUESTIONS?: Please Email: Academy@artleaguehhi.org. |
| Instructor: | Alex Sharma |
| Instructor Bio: |  Born into a family of artists, ALEXANDRA SHARMA learned early a unique awareness of form and space that is manifest in her work. A painter, print maker, sculptor, and art professor, Alexandra has a Fine Arts degree and has studied at the Sorbonne, France, and Oxford University, England. Her work spans over twenty-five years and she is known for unique visual imagery in her paintings and her ability to capture the moment as she works primarily en plein air. Alexandra is a founding member of the Multi Media Arts Guild, Kingston, Canada, and member of Hilton Head Art League, Apple Pie Painters, Northview Group of Artists, and a lifetime member of the American art honorary, Delta Phi Delta. Alexandra exhibits regularly at the Charles Street Gallery in Beaufort, SC and at ALHH Gallery. Visit Alex Sharma's Website |
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