The Creative Watercolor Sketchbook - Patti Adams

September 8 - December 8 (no classes on October 27 and November 24)

12 weeks

Lecture Room

NOAFA Instructor Patti Adams will lead you through this twelve-week course with a wide variety of creative exercises and assignments to fill your beautiful watercolor sketchbook!

Journaling is a fun and compelling way for you to capture the world around you. It can be a record of your daily thoughts, a travel or dream journal, a collection of to do lists or meaningful quotations from favorite authors or poets. You can record likenesses of people, pets and the daily places you frequent. Making a habit of drawing and painting in a sketchbook can be a precious visual journal of your life and what is important to you. The sources of inspiration are endless. The best part: there are no mistakes to be made and countless imaginative ways to create your journal. And using watercolor makes for quick, colorful sketches and fabulous happy accidents on your pages.

Supply Fee: $35 to be paid directly to instructor, Patti Adams

*Each participant will be supplied with a Strathmore Watercolor Sketchbook, 8.5”x11" , with 48 pages of cold pressed, acid-free watercolor paper.

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Supplies for you to bring:

• A set of watercolors and a small palette. You can bring whatever kinds of paints you already have or are affordable from our local art stores!

• Three watercolor brushes: Two different sizes of short-handled Rounds: 6 and  8, plus one larger one, sized 12, and/or 16. The third brush you’ll need is a 1’ or 2”  flat brush for applying washes. (Recommended Simply Simmons synthetic brushes. Cheap and durable!)

**Bring whatever additional types of watercolor brushes you own. We’ll discuss all the different types and their uses in the first class. (You can also use watercolor pencils, colored pencils or markers.)

• Small water sprayer for wetting your watercolors

• TWO small containers for rinsing your brushes and a clean water supply (e.g., glass jars or yogurt/ice cream containers, etc.). One for dirty water, the other for clean water.

• paper towels

• notebook and pen

• drafting or artist layout tape

• waterproof black ink pen such as a Copic or Pigma Micron pen. (Sizes .005, 01, 03 and/or 05. ) The Micron pens are also available in additional colors: sepia, red, blue, etc. Remember that if you want to use a pen in your sketchbook, make sure that it's waterproof so you can add watercolor to your drawings without the ink dissolving/smearing.

• mechanical pencil (something that does not need continual sharpening) or a 2B, HB or 2H pencil

• a good eraser and a small ruler

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