Color Mixing Unique to Watercolor and Pigment Properties

Intermediate Watercolor Workshop

Artist/Instructor:  Jennifer Koury
$36 members/$46 not-yet members

Express yourself with enormous potential. Learn to take advantage of watercolor's unique ability to allow complements and pigment minerals of differing weights to settle out into gorgeous, reticulated colors. Each watercolor pigment is made from a different mineral with unique characteristics, including, staining, sedimentary, and/ or transparent to opaque. Paint a scene or object of your choice, and learn clarity of color and watercolor techniques, while experimenting with color pigments, their mineral weights and characteristics, as well as, mixing color complements.  

Jennifer Koury, a watercolorist, delights in both the natural world's play of light and color on forms, and watercolor's whimsical properties: color bleeding, reticulation and natural paint sediments.  Koury has enjoyed a rewarding career as a dedicated painter and freelance illustrator.  She is published in both children's and adult based books. Her work is featured at George Washington's Mount Vernon and Yuma Regional Medical Center, Arizona.  After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University in Painting and Printmaking, Koury continued her studies to graduate from Art Center College of Design, California.  A member of the BSA, NFWS and NFPAP, she resides with her family in Buffalo, and is inspired by the natural beauty of Western New York.

Supply List:
2 or more 11" X 15" pieces of Arches 100% Cotton, Cold Press 140 lb Watercolor Paper
Arches 100% Cotton, Cold Press 140 lb Watercolor Paper, for the size painting of your choice
Watercolor Palette
Round #14 Escoda- Versatil Brush or Round #12 Princeton Heritage Series 4050 Synthetic Sable Brushes and Flat 1 inch Princeton Stroke Brush or a higher quality Flat 1 ", OR your personal favorite brushes
High Quality Tube Watercolor Paint, that is not a student grade
Photo reference of a landscape or garden, which will inspire you to use complementary colors and to experiment with mixing pigments, and paper towels
Backing board, paper towels and masking tape

Download the registration form.

For further information go to the International Center For Watercolor or contact Kathy G. Shiroki at shirokkg@buffalostate.edu, 716.878.3549.