Tuesdays, Feb 21 through April 4, 2017
NVAL Carter House Gallery
North Valley Art League Watercolor Course classes with Howard “Luke” Lucas ![](https://files.constantcontact.com/d4b779cb001/fcaae8ea-3cd5-4a33-93ec-994508754a70.jpg)
February 21 through April 4, 2017
Tuesday Watercolor Classes at NVAL from 10 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.
Class size limited to 8 in NVAL workroom
Cost: Pay At Sign up, $35 per class, 3 for $75 all for $125
Sign Up: at the NVAL Carter House Gallery, 48 Quartz Hill Road, Redding, Phone 243-1023
Questions: call Howard “Luke” Lucas Phone 474-3991
Course Schedule: (series of 7 classes)
1. Feb 21 Watercolor painting basics: Materials, brush work, color intensity gradations, value gradations, gradations from one color to another.
2. Feb 28 Watercolor washes: wet, dry, variegated. Negative and positive shapes, charging color, skies.
3. March 7 Monochromatic painting (one color painting) : homework review, value and intensity
4. March 14 Color theory: homework review, mixing colors, intensity, temperature, complimentary and analogous, juxtaposition, pushing and pulling, painting color wheel
5. March 21 Color and watercolor paints: (“blue is not blue”), temperature, mixing, opacity and transparency, charging, glazing, juxtaposition
6. Mar 28 Creating depth: homework review, size, placement, overlapping, alternation, contrast of value, temperature, edges, detail, and texture
7. April 4 simplifying shapes (Composition: homework review, psi (thirds), intuition, edges, armature, types
![Mahabodi Temple India-2](https://nval.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Mahabodi-Temple-India-2-221x300.jpg)
![Mt. Shasta kiezer Meadow](https://nval.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Mt.-Shasta-kiezer-Meadow-300x203.jpg)
![Mouth of Big River Foggy Morning 3pigment painting](https://nval.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Mouth-of-Big-River-Foggy-Morning-3pigment-painting-200x300.jpg)