Weekly Sessions Watercolor Sketching with Kristen Olson Stone

All Levels welcome: Please read materials list carefully. Contact Instructor for details or questions: [email protected]. Meet at the Artists Center unless notified by the Instructor as to location.

This is for anyone who’d love to learn the art of travel sketching!

You'll gain the ability to see things differently as I share a casual approach to composition, sketching and color mixing skills. We will use travel-sized sketching kits that are easy to store and take along anywhere!

Each week we will meet at a different indoor or outdoor location. Our friendly group will be small with a maximum of 6 students. It's a lot of fun to sketch in a cafe, at an inviting resort or in the majestic beauty of our outdoor desert environment.

Sketching is a Zen kind of art as it's meditative, calming and a lot of fun!

I'll be demonstrating with the kit shown in the photo which includes a tiny, empty watercolor kit available on Amazon for around $15.00 that comes with a magnetic clip and a tiny water cup .Here is the link: Amazon.com: Portable Mini Tin Box,12-Well Empty Watercolor Palette,Small Paint Storage Travel Artist Outdoor Sketch Watercolor Kits with Magnetic Clip and Oil Pot.Flowers and Birds . I fill the tin with tubes using these Rembrandt brand colors:

• 12 watercolors: Cadmium lemon, Azo yellow deep, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, permanent red deep, quinacridone purple bluish, quinacridone rose, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, manganese blue phthalo, phthalo green, hookers green deep. I recommend arranging them in the same way as I have (see photo).

• A lead holder with a 2B lead and a white plastic eraser.

• A TWSBI Diamond 580 refillable fine point pen filled with De Atramentis document ink.

• A #6 Silverbrush Black Velvet Voyage travel brush

• A white Posca acrylic pen

• A 6" x 8" or 8" x 10" sketchbook. Paper weight should be between 90lb - 140lb.

This is all I need to sketch absolutely anything! The entire kit fits into my small purse so it's perfect for taking anywhere! Watercolor sketching is extremely popular right now and there are a lot of great travel set options and you can bring any travel kit that you'd like!

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