Part 1
Colour Harmony
hold a painting together with a pale background wash

Introducing the work of Frank Webb

Welcome to Watercolour - Fast and Loose
 To start, download and print off the pages of instruction from the link below. You can file these in a ring binder and add other pages as the course goes on. There are seven weekly parts to this course.

Then listen to the audio track below which gives you an introduction to the course and the best way of using this weeks’ material.

The video clip includes a demonstration painting. You can either watch it from the screen below (click on the play button) or download it and save it for viewing when you are offline.

Part 2 will be automatically sent to you in a week. Because of the automated nature of the process there may be up to 24hrs delay on when you receive Part 2.

Bibliography:
You may be interested to read more about Frank Webb. Here’s a book by him which is now out of print, but can still be found second hand on the internet:
Frank Webb. Watercolour Energies (North Light 1983).

Coming up in Part 2:

What materials do I need?

I've used my normal palette of colours for all the paintings in this course, but can't remember now if I used all of them or just some!
For reference my palette is: Ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, cadmium yellow medium, lemon yellow, cadmium red, alizarin crimson,
raw sienna and burnt sienna, and chinese white (or titanium white).
I also used a few large round and small round brushes, a couple of flats and a rigger. My paper is usually Bockingford 140lb.

Where can I buy art materials?

In the UK or Europe try Ken Bromley where you get a great service and very good discounts on everything you will need.

In the USA go to Jerry’s Artarama

All quotes in blue speech bubbles, and the artists paintings in this course come from the book
Watercolour Impressionists.  Author: Ron Ranson,1989  Publishers: David & Charles  ISBN0715393383
with thanks to the Publishers for their kind permission to use them.

My thanks to the seven great artists whose work I have used in this course. Without you my life would be much duller!.
All the comments I have made about these artists, the inferences I have drawn from their working methods and their approach to painting are solely my own, and are as such subjective.