Intermediate Watercolor
10 Weeks | $325 | In-Class
Do you have paints, brushes and paper, but don't know what to do next? In this class, those with some prior experience with watercolor will learn new techniques, improve and refresh existing skills and develop a personal direction in their work. Demonstrations and practical exercises focus on paint properties, shadows, composition, color and texture. Quick sketches and sustained paintings will be accomplished during this class. A variety of subject matter and styles will be explored. Class includes one outdoor field trip in San Diego area.
What You Will Learn:
- How to further develop your skills in the usage of watercolor paint.
- Best practices to develop a theme and direction to their own work.
- Materials of art including watercolor papers and other substrates.
- How to develop an awareness of the natural world and its application to art, as well as an awareness of contemporary and art historical movements in watercolor.
- How to plan painting direction and technique.
Quarters Offered: Winter | In-Class
Course Fee: $325
Prerequisite: Watercolor I: Basic Techniques and Materials (ART-40625) or equivalent experience.
Materials: Whatever watercolor materials you already have.
Note: Recommend textbook- Gerald Brommer´s Understanding Transparent Watercolor (Davis Pub., 1993). Elective course for Art and the Creative Process professional certificate.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email ahl@ucsd.edu.
Recommended materials:
- 1" Wash brush: Princeton Heritage or Robert Simmons Sapphire (or similar)
- 2" Hake brush
- 1/2" Stroke or flat brush (Princeton Heritage or similar)
- Princeton Neptune #6 quill brush
- Round brushes: #10, #8, #6, #3 or 4 (Princeton Heritage or Neptune)
- Drawing board, without clips. Approx 15x20" or larger, thin plywood or masonite
- Drafting tape or 1" wide masking tape
- Sketchbook (9x12" approx)
- Sharp #2 pencils
- Kneaded or latex eraser
- Water containers
- Art masking fluid: Winsor & Newton yellow tinted. Don't get orange tinted kind.
- Watercolor palette approx 11x15"
- Watercolor paper at least 5 sheets 140lb., 22 x 30" Arches or Blick Premier Watercolor paper (cold pressed. If budget allows, also one sheet of rough). Cut one sheet into quarters for first class.
- Paints: 15ml or larger tube watercolors, e.g. Cottman, Gumbacher, or CheapJoe's (alizarin crimson, cadmium red medium, cerulean blue, ultramarine blue, Prussian blue, indigo, lemon yellow or cadmium yellow pale, cadmium yellow medium, yellow ochre, burnt Sienna, burnt umber, small tube of black).
- Xacto knife and blades
- Metal ruler
- Paper towels
- Blow dryer
Course Number: ART-40239
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Art and the Creative Process
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7/3/2024 - 9/4/2024
$300
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Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online at published times (time/date).
McCunney, Michelle, Visual artist, art instructor for undergraduate programs since 1988; has exhibited paintings and books in California, Mexico, Cuba, Italy and Japan.
She received a master's in visual arts from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (UNAM) in Mexico City and bachelor's in visual arts from the University of California San Diego. She has taught painting, drawing and illustration for university programs in Mexico and the US since 1988. Michelle´s art revolves mainly around the animals she observes, and their stories of habitat loss.
She teaches the following courses for the UC San Diego Extension Art and the Creative Process Professional Certificate .
- Animal Illustration
- Introduction to Illustration
- Drawing I: Focus on Perception
- Drawing II: Refining Technique
- Watercolor I: Basic Techniques and Materials
- Intermediate Watercolor
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POLICIES:
Early enrollment advised.
No visitors permitted.
Prerequisite required.
No refunds after: 7/10/2024.
Early Enrollment Discount: $300 ($325 if enrolled after 6/3/2024).
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NOTE:
SCBWI/MOPA members can receive our $25 Early Enrollment discount prior to course start date. The max discount a MOPA/SCBWI member can receive for one class is $25. It is applied upon course enrollment over the phone or in person with proof of membership. This is a live online course; all class sessions are taught via Zoom. Course materials like the syllabus and handouts are delivered online. Login on your MyExtension account, select My Courses and click the link under LOCATION.
DATE | DAY | START | END | LOCATION |
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7/3/2024 | Wed | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | |
7/10/2024 | Wed | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | |
7/17/2024 | Wed | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | |
7/24/2024 | Wed | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | |
7/31/2024 | Wed | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | |
8/7/2024 | Wed | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | |
8/14/2024 | Wed | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | |
8/21/2024 | Wed | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | |
8/28/2024 | Wed | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | |
9/4/2024 | Wed | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | |
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Arts, Humanities, Languages & Digital Arts department at 858-534-5760 or ahl@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.