Level: all

Sept 25 - Oct 16, 2020

Fridays

3-5:30pm

4 weeks

Instructor: Emily Rose Hirtle

Instructor's website

Fee: $130

NOTE: THIS CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED!

Painting with Gouache (i.e. opaque watercolor)

In this class, you’ll learn the fundamentals and variety of techniques involved in painting with gouache.

Emily will be sending short videos prior to to start of each class as a primer for the week’s lesson.  Expect to be painting for the majority of each class. Emily will be guiding students individually and will be talking about other artists who worked in gouache as well as other tidbits of art history.  Various painting surfaces will also be discussed.

Gouache Painting course outline

Week 1: Choose a flower painting to copy by artist Stanley Bielen.  For the first day we will focus on our line drawing(linear placement). Focusing on shape, proportion, scale,  and placement.

Week 2: The painting portion of our copy.  Now that our linear placement is set and ready to paint. We will focus on color, temperature, value. Applying Gouache application at its half and half consistency(creamer)  and applying the paint to the paper planarly not linearly.

Week 3:  Set up your own floral or plant still life.  You will be working from life and focusing on the drawing such as: scale , placement, shape, proportion, and line only.

Week 4:  The painting portion of your still life.  Now that our linear placement is set and ready to paint. We will focus on color, temperature, value. Applying Gouache application at its half and half consistency(creamer)  and applying the paint to the paper planarly not linearly.

Note:  This class will taught online using Zoom. Please download and become familiar with the app prior to the start of class.

Supply List

  • A variety of Ingres toned paper. Blick or Artist and Craftsman has it.
  • A block of cold pressed or hot pressed watercolor paper: 11×14 or 11×17
  • Hohlbein or Windsor and Newton for brands of gouache.
  • Colors: Titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre, raw sienna, burnt sienna,ultramarine blue, raw umber, burnt umber, and alizarin crimson.
  • Masking tape(Artist tape)
  • A plastic palette(rectangular) large you can find it at Blick or Artist and Craftsman.
  • Graphite(pencil)
  • Kneaded Eraser
  • Two cups for water
  • Paper towel or some kind of cloth to dry your brushes.

About the Instructor:https://www.emilyhirtle.com/

Emily Rose Hirtle is from Westerville, Ohio.  She attended The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and received her BFA and Certificate in Painting in 2017. In May of 2019 she received her MFA in Drawing from “The New York Academy of Art”. Her work is part of numerous collections such as: The Linda Lee Alter Collection in Philadelphia, PA. Actress and Model Brooke Shield’s and Actor Aidan Turner. She is a practicing Artist and a Drawing/ Painting instructor for numerous institutions in Philadelphia, PA.