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**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 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.
Week 1
We will begin by drawing while learning about Morandi's life and considering what can happen when an artist works with the same objects over decades. We will explore how composition can transform the ordinary into something fascinating. Slowly, we will build monochromatic watercolor washes into our drawings.
Week 2
This week we will explore the role of value in Morandi's work, looking closely at his paintings in black and white to separate ideas of light and shadow from local color. Students will work primarily in monochrome to better understand value relationships.
Week 3
This week we will begin exploring Morandi's restrained color, developing a range of subtle grays while considering the importance of temperature over local color.
Week 4
Morandi's watercolors are notable for their lack of consistent outlines. This week we will examine how he uses edges. We will investigate different kinds of edges including hard, soft, lost, and broken edges and how they interact with form, both making forms appear solid and allowing them to dissolve.
Week 5
This week we will focus on composition, particularly the role of negative space, intervals between forms, balance, overlap, and the rhythms that emerge through compositional arrangement.
Paper
140 lb. or 300 lb. cold press watercolor paper (an Arches block is ideal)
Brushes
Round watercolor brush, size #8
Round watercolor brush, size #12
One wide, flat watercolor brush for washes
Other Materials
Spray bottle
Paper towels
Small sketchbook for composition studies
Pencil
Pencil sharpener
Eraser
Watercolors
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Sienna
Yellow Ochre
Raw Umber
Cobalt Blue
Alizarin Crimson
Payne's Gray (optional)
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 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.
Week 1
We will begin by drawing while learning about Morandi's life and considering what can happen when an artist works with the same objects over decades. We will explore how composition can transform the ordinary into something fascinating. Slowly, we will build monochromatic watercolor washes into our drawings.
Week 2
This week we will explore the role of value in Morandi's work, looking closely at his paintings in black and white to separate ideas of light and shadow from local color. Students will work primarily in monochrome to better understand value relationships.
Week 3
This week we will begin exploring Morandi's restrained color, developing a range of subtle grays while considering the importance of temperature over local color.
Week 4
Morandi's watercolors are notable for their lack of consistent outlines. This week we will examine how he uses edges. We will investigate different kinds of edges including hard, soft, lost, and broken edges and how they interact with form, both making forms appear solid and allowing them to dissolve.
Week 5
This week we will focus on composition, particularly the role of negative space, intervals between forms, balance, overlap, and the rhythms that emerge through compositional arrangement.
Paper
140 lb. or 300 lb. cold press watercolor paper (an Arches block is ideal)
Brushes
Round watercolor brush, size #8
Round watercolor brush, size #12
One wide, flat watercolor brush for washes
Other Materials
Spray bottle
Paper towels
Small sketchbook for composition studies
Pencil
Pencil sharpener
Eraser
Watercolors
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Sienna
Yellow Ochre
Raw Umber
Cobalt Blue
Alizarin Crimson
Payne's Gray (optional)