Reinventing Your Watercolor Palette

Are you tired of dull, muddy, streaky watercolors?

Learn from award-winning illustrator Vesper Stamper how to bring life and brilliant colors to your watercolor paintings.

This course will introduce you to a five-color palette which will enable more vibrant colors that granulate, bloom and crackle beautifully, can build up in glaze layers without turning to mud, and enable much more versatility, mixing a wider range of colors with fewer pigments.

In this class you will learn:

How different colors interact, from observation.

How to use a five-color palette that will result in a wide range of vibrant colors.

Why certain color pigment combinations work better together, while other create muddy paintings.

Materials needed:

Watercolor tubes of the following colors (preferably Winsor & Newton or Sennelier. Student grade colors like Cotman will not work). The last five must be exact:

Cadmium Red Deep or Naphthol Red

Cadmium Yellow Light or Hansa Yellow

Viridian Green

Prussian Blue or Ultramarine Blue

Payne’s Grey

Raw Umber or Sienna

Burnt Umber or Sienna

Rose Madder Genuine

Aureolin Yellow

Cobalt Blue (genuine, not hue)

Alizarin Crimson

Pthalo Green (also called Winsor Green)

Good quality watercolor paper (preferably Arches or Fabriano 140 lb Hot Press), four (4) approximately letter-size pieces (you can tear down from a large sheet, or use a block)

Watercolor brushes, any kind

Several deep-welled palettes

Clean water

Cloth for drying brushes