Impressionist Painting: Solvent Free (Online Workshop Webinar) Fall 2026 w/ Anne Blair Brown

November 3 to November 17 (Tuesdays), 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Eastern Time

**All sessions are live and will be recorded. All recordings will be available to students for 6 months after the final session, after 6 months the recording will be deleted.

Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.

DEMO: https://youtu.be/dByZraQwd4U

**Note: there is no Padlet component to this webinar for participant feedback. The webinar is held via Zoom Webinar format.

Workshop Webinar Description

In this fun and informative workshop, Anne will share with you the benefits of going solvent-free with Gouache, Acrylics, and Water Soluble Oils! She will show you the flexibility and versatility of each medium and how to take control of edges, texture, and color.

Demonstrations and presentations will illuminate the unique features of each medium and show you just how darn easy they are to work and travel with.

Using a variety of paint mediums encourages flexibility, creativity, and opens you up to happy accidents. This “playtime” will help you grow in all aspects of your practice.

You will learn:

How to build layers to achieve texture

How to use quick drying times to your advantage

When to stain, when to load the brush

Underpainting to influence value and color

The freedom of the limited palette

Brushes and surfaces that help you “lay it and leave it”

*Anne will give you exercises each week to practice what’s learned in class.

Workshop Webinar Outline

Week 1: Gouache

Week 2: Acrylic

Week 3: Water Soluble Oils

Workshop Webinar Materials

Gouache

Paint

Anne recommends using what you already have, or if you are new to gouache, she recommends a starter set. She likes the Royal Talens starter set but brands like Windsor & Newton or Daniel Smith are great, too. *Please note, Anne’s Gouache palette colors rely on what is in the starter set, which is different from her Acrylic and Oil colors. So, anything goes.

Brushes

Any type of Watercolor Brushes. Anne uses a variety of flats and rounds…inexpensive sets are a great option, or feel free to use whatever you have.

Surface

Anne uses Fluid 100 140lb. Cold Press Watercolor Paper. Any brand will do.

Acrylic

Paint

Any acrylics acceptable. Anne uses Utrecht and Golden Opens. Please feel free to use whatever you have.

Anne’s Palette

Ultramarine Blue

Prussian Blue

*Primary Magenta (or any cool red like Quinacridone, etc.

Cadmium Red Light

Cadmium Yellow Lemon (or Light)

Cadmium Yellow Deep

Yellow Ochre

Titanium White

Brushes

Anne uses a variety of hog bristle short and long Flats, Rounds, and Filberts, primarily: #6, #8, #10, 12 and Egberts (long filberts), #4 and #6. She uses Richeson and Rosemary. **These brushes work with Water Soluble Paint and Acrylic.

Panels/Canvas

•Have some smaller canvases or panels available for exercises and studies, 8x10 up to 12x12 and anything in between. Anne uses a variety of surfaces including the very affordable Centurion Universally Acrylic Primed Linen Panels. Jerry’s Artarama has reasonable prices.

•Canson Canva paper pad-12x16. https://www.jerrysartarama.com/canson-canva-paper-pads).

Water Soluble Oils

Paint

Cobra Water Soluble Oils. You can get an inexpensive starter set, or feel free to

purchase Anne’s palette colors at Dick Blick, Jerry’s Artarama, or your local art store if they carry Cobra.

**See Acrylic section for Anne’s palette colors

Brushes

**Same as Acrylic brushes

Surfaces

**Same as Acrylic

Additional Supplies

• Sketchbook and sketching pencil.

• Grayscale Markers Your local art store will have these. Anne uses Touchnew 12 pen set, purchased on Amazon. Any brand will do. You’ll just want a range on the value scale to work with.

• Medium- For Acrylic Anne uses Golden mediums, gloss and matte. For WSO she uses Cobra Painting Medium.

• ValueComp from Artwork Essentials

http://artworkessentials.com/products/valuecomp/index.htm .

• View Finder from Artwork Essentials.

• Artists’ Masking Tape, 1/2 inch (the kind that lifts up easily).