Tuesday Evening Series: 7 Classes

Unlock the language of color! This hands-on watercolor series is designed for painters who want to mix with confidence and intention. You will be guided by instructor Sally Meding to build a solid foundation in color theory — exploring hue, value, intensity, and temperature — and learn how these properties interact on paper. From the first mix, you’ll discover how to create tints and tones from your primaries, blend secondary and tertiary colors, and mix rich greys and deep blacks using complementary pairs.

Limited seats available. Registration closes Oct 31

What to expect:

A centerpiece of the class is building your own split-primary color wheel — an essential tool for accurate, vibration-free color mixing. You’ll practice three mixing approaches: wet palette blending, layering on paper, and spattering for texture and depth.

Because color behaves differently in watercolor than any other medium, we’ll also explore properties unique to the medium: granulation, transparency vs. opacity, and lifting vs. staining pigments. As time allows, we’ll experiment with popular color schemes and learn how to establish a “mother color” — a unifying tint that brings harmony to any painting.

What you’ll learn:

• Hue, value, intensity, and color temperature
• Mixing tints, tones, secondaries, tertiaries, greys, and darks
• Building and using a split-primary color wheel
• Watercolor properties: granulation, transparency, opacity, lifting, and staining
• Palette mixing, wet-in-wet layering, and spattering techniques
• Color schemes and creating color harmony with a “mother color”

Prerequisite: Beginners Watercolor Painting or Advanced Beginners Watercolor Painting

Min # of Students: 6

Max # of Students: 12

Cost: $165 (plus materials list)

What to Bring: Materials List (required)

Date: 7 Tuesdays (6:30 pm-9:00 pm) Nov 3, 10, 17, 24, Dec 1, 8, 15

Instructor: Sally Meding

Classes that do not meet the minimum enrollment will be canceled.