Introduction and WELCOME!
Pre-class Information

To get started and get you familiar with your materials, I will provide some start up links. Each of these videos, presentations and articles are to help you get off to a healthy start before we have our first meeting. Anything that is underlined is a clickable link to a PDF file or video presentation.

Getting Familiar with Watercolor, Color and Your Supplies

To get familiar with who I am, color in general, and understand some of the terms I will be using I am providing the following presentations. You will also have the opportunity to do a few exercises to get familiar with your paints, brush(es) and paper:

• Introduction of your Instructor
• Recent Promotional Video – Curator and Graphic Designer of Featured Artists’ Compilation: Jester Graphix, Matt Dixon
• How to Photograph Work for Critiquing
• Introduction of Color
• Handy Color Handout
• Watercolor_For_Beginners_Pre-Class Handout
• Preliminary Exercises  (2 Tasks)
  • Task 1: Saturation and flow exercise
  • Task 2: Color Wheel Exercise(View color wheel tutorial then make your own color wheel in your sketchbook!
    • Color Wheel Tutorial (Creative Commons License)
    • After viewing the tutorial on the color wheel, make your own so you understand how to mix the 12 standard colors on the color wheel
      • Primaries: Red, Blue, Yellow
      • Secondaries: Green, Orange, Purple (also called Violet)
      • Tertiaries (sometimes called Intermediate): Red-Yellow, Orange-Yellow, Blue-Green, Yellow-Green, Red-Purple, Blue-Purple