Saturday, October 19, 2024, 1 – 3:30 pm
Delavan Studios, room 413
enter through 501 W Fayette St
Syracuse
Price: $15 (or 1 punch when paying in-person)
People find watercolor more challenging that dry or opaque art materials. Dan will focus on how to use the medium, using watercolor to create values, similar to shading with graphite or pencil, varying the amount of pigment on a brush, or by building up layers: letting one layer dry and then making darker areas by painting over parts of it.
Dan will do a follow-up class later in the year that explores ways to combine hues & create stronger variations in value within a layer of paint. If you have not used watercolor, or struggle with it, Dan recommends you take this October 19 class first.
- 140 lb cold press professional watercolor paper (Dan will bring some) Dan will be using pieces no larger than 10 x 14″
- watercolor brushes
1 large round – at least 1/2″ (Dan will bring 1/2″ or larger brushed for everyone)
1 medium round – size 6 to 8
1 small round – size 2 to 4 - any watercolor paint Dan will be using Winsor & Newton professional paints, burnt umber or burnt sierra, and maybe cobalt blue or ultramarine blue
- pencil
- eraser
- container to hold water
- absorbent rags or paper towels
- board at least as large as your paper
- tape to hold paper to board
Dan Shanahan watercolor paints people, plein air paints during the summer, and creates illustrative paintings. He has always enjoyed arting of some sort. His earliest artistic interests were cartoons since long before he can remember, and illustration since just a little bit before he can remember. Dan has been drawing with Open Figure Drawing for 20 years, and started using watercolor in 2015. His paintings have been shown in Edgewood Gallery, the Everson Museum, and other places.
View Dan’s artwork on his website.
This class is part of in Open Figure Drawing’s 2024 Education Project – Today’s Studio Artists
All events, times, locations, etc, are subject to change.
Registration is now closed
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CNY Arts.