ongoing -- for either credit or non-credit
Loyola Marymount University Enhancement Courses
Price: non-credit: $150; $297 for 3-credit course
 Courses on Line
Consider a non-credit on-line course to keep you focused while working at home. Or, if you are interested in upgrading your certification, take a watercolor course for credit, working through Loyola Marymount's Enhancement Course program.
Basic Watercolor, Glazing, Watercolor Lessons for the Classroom, and Working with the Masters in Watercolor are the classes currently offered. When you sign up you receive via email the course as a Word Document. You are also sent albums through Kodak Gallery with examples that illustrate the text. The courses have clear directions and you make work at your own pace. You may contact Caroline at any time with questions and are encouraged to frequently upload your painting in your own Kodak Gallery Album. Caroline reviews the paintings you send, answers questions, makes suggestions, offers encouragement.
If you are taking it for credit,you register through Loyola Marymount, http://www.enhancementcourses.com/courses * After satisfactory completion and roughly 15 hours of working time per credit, you receive 3 semester units of professional development credit through Loyola Marymount.
* You may have to paste this link in your browser. "go" on Art and click on the course you wish to take.
Non-credit: Contact Caroline directly watercolors@rockisland.com if you wish to take one of the classes but do not wish the credit or if you have questions before enrolling. For non-credit courses, download the standard registration form and send in $150 by check for the courses listed as 3 credits; $100 for 2 credits. Enjoy!
Watercolor Basics ARTX9007 3 credits
If watercolor is something you have always wanted to try or if you have dabbled in it and find you have more questions than answers, this is the class for you. Because of the interactive nature of the on-line format, you learn far more than working from a book.
You will practice working wet-on-wet, learn how to mix colors, wet blend and model forms in light. There is a brief introduction to glazing, lots of practice with negative painting and finally you put it all together in one painting. You need not know anything about watercolor before you start. But the course is also useful for the watercolorist who needs to review the fundamentals of the process.
Anyone who tries these processes will be more adapt at watercolor and at learning to see as an artist.
Watercolor Lessons for the Classroom ARTX 9008 3 credits
This class is designed for the classroom teachers who wants to improve their watercolor skills as they work out processes and create aids for teaching watercolor to thei r students. They gain confidence in painting in watercolor and, at the same time, prepare a unit on watercolor. The teacher ends up with a “product” for each process – something that can be displayed or used.
The topics covered are: Water+Color = Watercolor (wet on wet), Brushstroke Practice, From the Primaries through the Prism to Gray, Color is a Dance, Visual Color Harmonies, Wet Blending, How Negative Can You Get? (steps for seamless negative painting). There is also a discussion of supplies for the classroom.
Although the course was developed for the classroom teacher, some non-credit students have enjoyed it as a reinforcement course following the basics class.
Glazing in Watercolor ARTX 9009, 2 credits (shorter course)
 
Because glazing is such an important aspect of watercolor, a separate two credit course has been designed to cover this process.
Those taking it will try wet-on-wet glazing with random colors; wet-on-wet glazing with a single hue at a time; graded wash glazing with several projects, including little cards that make great gift items. You will learn the secrets of mixing colors, one layer at a time and have fun while you do it. A good winter project for credit or for the at-home student.
red 1st; then blue; red 1st, then yellow; red then lavender; red, then yellow, then blue.
Working with the Masters in Watercolor ARTX9010 
Caroline had the good fortune to study with a number of the important teachers and watercolorists of the 20th century. She has chosen the giants Ed Whitney, Rex Brandt and Millard Sheets to share with you -- passing on some of what were their lasting contributions to watercolor as well as share with you some of her observations and memories. Links to their works are listed. The assignments will help you with your own painting and ground you in some of the most important concepts that made watercolor the American medium in the 20th century.
At Carona del Mar, Brandt at the top
You need to have had Watercolor Basics or are familiar with the processes of watercolor before taking this course. Those who have taken it have been very excited about what they have learned. It is a tough course that clarifies for the student some very important aspects of design and color -- as taught by the masters. It also gives them a historical perspective on the development of watercolor as the American medium during the later 20th century.
By request: the continuing class offered in July 2011 will also be offered for credit through Loyola Marymount. The arrangements are still being made.
Equipment:
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Please check with me if you have other equipment you prefer. You do not need the list of paints but please get Artist quality of whatever pigments you choose. I strongly recommend the Arches paper. It is the most forgiving. And there are decent brushes that are not too expensive. Don't shoot yourself in the foot by using poor quality supplies! Longer equipment discussions are included in the individual courses.
There is a thorough discussion of all aspects of equipment in the Lessons for the Classroom ARTX 9008 class. If you are taking another class but would like a more complete exploration of the kinds of supplies that work (and don't) please contact me.
See LINKS at the bottom of the page for supply houses.
Suggested equipment:
D'ARCHES WATERCOLOR PAPER, cold press, 90 or 140 lb.
a sketchbook
#2 or 2B pencils
white eraser
2 pint or quart sized water containers
a roll of tissue
1" clear-handled flat brush — such as WINSOR NEWTON or DANIEL SMITH (72-99) BRUSH
#10 pointed round brush — ROBERT SIMMONS #10 or Skyflow, white sable 785
LIDDED PALETTE — such as Aqua Pro, or John Pike, or Steve Quiller's with at least:
•yellow
•red
•blue
• burnt orange or burnt sienna
• a violet
in artist grade watercolor paint such as Daniel Smith, Winsor Newton, Da Vinci, Holbein.
Arrange your paints in a color wheel (ie rainbow).
I use Daniel Smith colors. Those in bold are more necessary than those not highlighted.
cobalt green
pthalo green, or Winsor green
cobalt teal blue
cerulean blue
pthalo blue, or Winsor blue
ultramarine blue
cobalt blue
ultramarine violet
quinacridone violet
quinacridone red or perylene red
quinacridone rose
cadmium red medium 
Indian red
quinacridone burnt orange (or sienna)
perinone orange
quinacridone gold
cadmium yellow light, or Winsor yellow, or Hansa
aureolin
green gold
Note: you do not want browns, blacks, white. The paper is the white and we mix luscious browns, blacks etc.
a large flat brush such as an 1 1/2" or 2" or larger.SKYFLOW is good.
Hairdryer.
A lightweight board
tape or clips
Note do not use the automatic registration form below! for the college class. Use it only for non-credit.
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