Mobile Watercolor Sketch Technique
August 4, 6, 11, and 13 from 6:30-9pm
(Please hold August 18 for a rain date)
Cost: $160-$225 sliding scale*, plus supply list (below)
Take your art wherever you go! In this new class with longtime NCFA instructor Deborah Rubin, learn to do quick watercolor sketches in a journal or small pad with minimal supplies. Class will be held outdoors in and around 33 Hawley until the sun sets, and finish up indoors. Students will start with small objects before moving on to a cityscape at the end of the session. Learning to see is hard and guided lessons will help you take this new skill with you anywhere. It’s fun!
To register, please email programs@nohoarts.org with your name, address, and phone number. Payment can be made via PayPal here, or by mailing a check made out to NCFA to PO Box 366, Northampton, MA 01061.
*Payments on the upper end of the sliding scale help support our continued commitment to accessibility, including sliding scale models and the NCFA Community Fund.
Deborah Rubin is a local artist and art teacher who paints in watercolor and occasionally acrylic and gouache. She has been pushing the boundaries of photo-realism and hyper-realism since the mid 1970’s with an eye on nature and more recently, architecture. Born in Chicago in 1948, Rubin holds a BFA from the University of Illinois. Deborah offers art classes independently and through the Northampton Center for the Arts throughout the year. Visit her website here: http://www.deborahrubin.com/
TRAVEL WATERCOLOR SKETCHING SUPPLY LIST
Small watercolor notebook with spiral or glued binding. Sizes vary from 3 ½x 5 ½ to 5x 8 give or take an inch or two. Moleskine watercolor notebook is high end , Strathmore 400 series watercolor art journal is mid-end, and Canson on the cheaper end are examples. There are many kinds to choose from. Please don’t go bigger than 6x 8 for this. And make sure it’s for watercolor or mixed media. Sketch book paper is too thin and your paintings will cause the paper to buckle.
Small travel watercolor paint set either with tube paints or pan or a combo of both. You can cobble together your own set using a very small palette and basic colors. Or, you can use a daily pill case and put the 7 colors (no white) in each compartment. The lids are used as a palette. Portability is what’s important. If you bring your own colors, please include cadmium yellow, pthalo blue or Prussian blue, ultramarine blue or cobalt blue, alizarin crimson, cadmium red, any black.
Brushes: only a few: #2 or #3 round, #5 or #6 round, #9 or #10 round. You can bring more if you want.
Pens: Black permanent markers. Fine point - .03 or .05.
Small water container (like individual yogurt cup or applesauce cup)
Small rag
A tote bag or carrying case for all the supplies.