Watercolor Theory and Limited Palette Basics with Shasta Garcia

Explore the basic properties of watercolor and pigments. All activities use a beginner friendly approach, utilizing ceramic palettes designed to visualize color relationships with ease.

Learn how to work with a limited color palette to create a rainbow of colors, expanding your color appreciation while gaining insights to make more informed paint purchases.

Create color wheels with professional grade paint and learn repeatable processes to continue exploring more pigment relationships on your own. Basic color theory concepts can be applied to other color mediums like gouache, acrylic, oil, or ink.

Workshop takeaways

• Intro to color theory
• Understanding basic properties of watercolor as a medium
• Understanding basics of how pigments interact in watercolor
• A color wheel you made! (A great reference tool for future painting and color mixing)
• Transferable color concepts that apply to mediums, like gouache, acrylic, oil, or ink

Materials

Watercolor and tools provided for use in the class. There will be take home materials to continue exploration on your own. Option to purchase ceramic palettes available at the workshop.

Related class

Continue your limited color palette mixing knowledge by taking the next class in series; Nature and neutrals watercolor theory. There will be some overlap in technique but the concepts will be different. It’s not necessary to have taken this workshop to attend. Get a discount on both classes by purchasing the color theory workshop bundle!

Skill level

Beginner

About Shasta:

Shasta Garcia is a multidisciplinary designer and artist living and working in San Francisco. She’s completed 10 One Hundred Day Projects which helped develop a consistent art practice exploring various mediums, including calligraphy, watercolor, and ceramics. Inspired by travel art retreats she now also uses sketching and watercolor as tools to capture memories of local outings. This inspired her to create a line of ceramic watercolor palettes including travel sets.

Host or Publisher ARCH Art Supplies