AUTUMN ZOOM ART 2025

  THE VISITOR 

  SEPTEMBER 9th    Single session class on Zoom

  $15 for the single class

Look carefully at the flower in my photo to see a little visitor. 

I  thought this would be a fun chance to explore using different drawing  media with watery washes to achieve both detail in our insect and flower  center as well as bright happy color.

The  three drawing media options I selected—a graphite pencil, a colored  pencil (either water colored or permanent), and a pen—each give a  different look when paired with my watercolor washes.

I  will demonstrate each media option and hope you will select one of  these, or another you come up with yourself, to produce a fun little  painting in this single session class.

 DIFFERENT MEDIA CHOICES—you pick what you want to try

WATERCOLOR PAINTS   Aureolin, New Gamboge, Azo Orange*, Quinacridone Red, Sap, Scarlet Pyroll*   

          *You  don’t need any of these, just some way to mix orange, for example New  Gamboge+Quinacridone Red or Azo Orange or Scarlet Pyroll

WATERCOLOR  PENCILS   Light Yellow Glaze, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Dark  Cadmium Orange, Light Green, Earth Green Yellowish, Helioblue reddish,  and Inktense Dark Chocolate

PERMANENT COLORED PENCILS in  Prismacolor   Yellowed Orange, Poppy, Limepeel, and Sepia

MICRON INK PENS  Brown 05, Black 005, and/or Black 01

GRAPHITE PENCILS 2-4H and B, H, or HB if you have one.  You can just use extra layers of the hard pencil if you don’t.

 $35 for the 3 sessions together

I  know some of you enjoy painting landscapes so I thought we could  explore a few as the seasons change from summer to autumn.  This is a  3-session class so we can take the time to paint our summer field of  yellow flowers, our fence with an autumn vine, and then move into a more  detailed autumn hawthorn leaf. I will paint using watercolor paints and  watercolor pencils, so you are welcome to choose your media.  The  addition of graphite pencils are a terrific option here, too, so I’ll  spend a little time showing that option.

 $25 for the 2 sessions together

I  love a photo I saw by Steve Allen of a beautiful American Widgeon.  I  love the colors of this duck.  I also had fun depicting the pattern and  detail of his feathers along with their echoes in the water.  I enjoyed  this project both with watercolor pencils and with watercolor paints,  which could easily be paired with a graphite pencil, a colored pencil,  or a pen, if you’d like to add them.  Otherwise, this would be a lovely  painting in watercolor paints alone.