Watercolor Workshop at Oil and Cotton this Saturday, June 30

Big Brush Squirrel Mop Kyle Hobratschk
Saturday, June 30, 12:30-6:30

This one-day workshop introduces valuable techniques for combining the full, fresh watercolor of squirrel mop brushes with the sensitivity of pencil rendering.

The lesson will reevaluate the traditional relationship between pencil’s rigid, draftsman quality and brush’s “fill-in-the-lines” purpose to establish new ground that blends and even switches these tools’ assumed roles. Squirrel mop brushes are unusual and excellent tools for painting the widest range of strokes from needle-fine to heavy puddles while holding generous amounts of paint. Some watercolorists find this is the only brush they need due to its versatility.
The workshop is a friendly mix of group instruction alongside individual attention to help students complete single-sitting paintings of plant and object based still life. Register today!

Supply fee includes:
1 Squirrel Mop Paintbrush (brush valued at $68)
140 lb cold pressed Arches watercolor paper*
M. Graham watercolor and gouache*
enamel palette*
*These materials are to cover class use only.
Please bring any additional paints, brushes and graphite
pencils you already own so we may discuss advantages and disadvantages to a variety of materials.
Instructor: Kyle Hobratschk
http://www.kylehobratschk.com/

Watercolor Series at Oil and Cotton

Join us this Saturday, September 10 from 10-2pm for the first of our new watercolor classes with Kyle Hobratschk. Botanicals are excellent subjects for watercolor to function singularly in formal, portrait-like studies or as multiples in arrangements. Leaves full of veins and complex shapes and color relationships can be paired down to simplified systems in preliminary drawing and painting. This class will introduce essential applications for color theory and color mixing in water-based media and pigments in general, methods for handling watercolor on paper, as well as explain differences and advantages to particular paper, paint, and brush types and brands. A wide variety will be described and available to try in the class before choosing to invest in pricey materials.
Quality artist-grade materials included for class. This class is limited to 8 students, please visit our website to register in advance. Look for our four week watercolor series in October!
Instructor: Kyle Hobratschk
Price: $80, includes class materials