Getting started involves taking a sheet of paper, taping it down, wetting your brush, putting it in the paint, and moving the brush to the paper - in that order. It's pretty simple really - for something so terribly intimidating. In this class we'll try and take some of the fear out of it, and make it more of an adventure you'll actually look forward to.
We'll start with simple, background washes of a single color. These are a good way to get the feel of how much water to use, and how to spread the paint smoothly on the paper. From that we'll go to darker washes, and learn how to grade them from light to dark in a smooth transition.
We'll experiment with both synthetic and natural bristle brushes, so you see their different uses. Synthetic brushes are gentle and don't lift the underlying color when you're putting a new wash over an old one. Natural bristle brushes are good for blending the new color with the old.
After doing some smooth background washes where we try to put the paint on as uniformly as possible, we'll try our hand at graded washes, from top to bottom (left) and then from bottom to top (right).
