Fall Class

Color Mixing Beyond the Rainbow

• Instructor: Elizabeth de Bethune
• Ages: Adult and Teen 14+
• Day: Tuesday
• Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
• Dates: 09/26/2023 - 10/24/2023
• Sessions: 5
• Fee: $185 / $167 Members / $157 Senior Members
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  Paint: We will use acrylic gouache for this class. It’s a matte, opaque acrylic paint.
  Brands:	Holbein and Turner You can either buy paint sets OR buy individual tubes
  Option 1: Paint sets	Holbein has a basic color set that has good colors for the work we will do: Holbein Acrylic Gouache 12ml Set of 12 (@ $35 at Jerry’s)		Turner Acryl Gouache Paint Set of 12, 20ml Colors ($32.59 at Jerry’s) (Get the one that has these colors: White, Jet Black, Permanent Lemon, Permanent Yellow Deep, Permanent Scarlet, Permanent Red, Burnt Sienna, Permanent Green Light, Permanent Green Middle, Sky Blue, Cobalt Blue (Hue), Violet.)
  Option 2: Individual tubes: (Turner is much cheaper than Holbein) 40ml tubes @$7 or 20ml– @ $4 at Jerry’s	Color list if buying individual tubes. Note that there are 2 versions of each of the primary colors plus green. Please get both colors. Sometimes, more than one color is listed, so you can choose which to get. It’s okay if a color lists “hue” after the name.
  	Reds:	1. Cadmium Red Light or Venetian Red		2. Carmine, Alizarin Crimson or Permanent Red
  	Blues:	1. Ultramarine Blue		1.     2. Cerulean Blue or Sky Blue
  	Yellows:	Yellows: 1. Cadmium Yellow Light or Cadmium Yellow Lemon		2. Cadmium Yellow Warm, Cadmium Yellow Deep, or Permanent Yellow Deep
  	Greens:	1. Viridian		2. Sap Green, or Permanent Green Light
  Also get:	Large tube of white: Titanium White or Mixing White (turner) 40ml Ivory Black (20ml ok)
  Optional:	Deep Purple Yellow Ochre

   

  Brushes watercolor grade I use synthetic sable or squirrel. At Jerry’s, the brands I use are Mimik synthetic sable (Kolinsky) or squirrel (creative mark), or Beste Taklon (creative mark). Other brands are fine as long as these are good water color brushes.
  Flats (might also be called a wash/glaze brush):	These sizes, one of each: 1”, ½”, ¼” Or 12, 8, 4, 2
  Rounds: Should be able to hold a lot of paint and come to a fine point	These sizes, one of each: 12, 6, 4, 2

   

  Paper	Block of 140 lb 9×12 watercolor paper
  Palette knife	2’’ trowel is good, but if you already have a palette knife, just use what you have
  Palette	A palette pad, or any large flat piece of white plastic is good Masterson Sta-wet brand can seal and paint will mostly stay wet You have to also purchase the paper liners and the sponge that go under them.
  Other necessary items	Water container Painting rag (paper towels are ok) Tape Drawing board