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QoR Watercolors and the Urban Landscape!
QoR Watercolors and the Urban Landscape!
Experience firsthand the versatility of QoR Watercolors while exploring the utility of the QoR Mini Urban Sketch set! Join Golden Materials and Application Specialist, Ellen Lyon, in discovering tips and tricks for color mixing and additional tools for use in the studio and beyond. We will be mixing colors to match selected areas from images of three urban landscapes. The QoR Mini Urban Sketch set includes six high chroma colors that can create a large array of hues that range from light to dark, warm to cool, and staining to granulating.
Materials
QoR Watercolor Mini Half Pan Urban Sketch Set of 6
Hahnemühle® Collection 300 Watercolour Paper Blocks - Cold Pressed
Opus Allegro Watercolour Brushes - Round: Various Sizes.
Princeton Neptune Synthetic Watercolour Brushes: Round 12
FC Art Stackable Porcelain Palettes
Water and two water containers, paper towels
Reference Images of your choice
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This event is for Opus Members — thank you for being part of the creative community!
Hosted by Opus Art Supplies & our Experience leader
Golden Artist Colors Materials and Applications Specialist. Ellen Lyon is a figurative painter working in Upstate New York. Lyon has a BFA in Painting and a BA in Art History from Indiana University, Bloomington. Before joining the MAS Team at Golden, Ellen was a Painting Conservation Technician at the Eskenazi Museum of Art for over 15 years. View full details
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