Advanced Perspective using Watercolor w/ Brian Turner

Dates: May 30th and 31st, 2024

Time: 10:00am – 2:30pm

Audience: Intermediate/Advanced Adult

Cost: $145 (inclusive of GST & registration fees)

Description: In this course we will look at perspective from different vantage points as well as learn how to place people into a landscape. Not recommended for a beginner to perspective drawing.

What Students will Learn:

• We will learn about and practice fundamental principles of one and two point perspective
• We learn how to establish horizon lines and vanishing points
• How to deal with things like roof lines in perspective or curved/linear objects
• How to deal with a scene that has multiple vanishing points such as looking up a hill or dealing with buildings on a curved street scene

Student Supplies (Please bring the following):

• Paper: Arches 140lb, cold pressed (3 – 4 ¼ sheets) Please use the Arches paper as other papers will not hold up to some of the techniques we will be using. For economic reasons you are welcome to paint on ¼ sheets. You are welcome to paint larger or smaller

• A Support Board: Plywood, Polystyrene board, Gator board or some other sturdy board that won’t bend or warp sized larger than the paper you are using. I use ¾” plywood so I can stretch the watercolor paper and tack it down with staples. Optional: For wet-on-wet approach I also use PVC Foam Board.

• Suggested Brushes: Your favorites – a wash brush (1 ¾”), a 1”/1.5” flat, A few flat and round brushes # 5/6, 10/12, synthetic/ sable. My favorite brush is Michael Solovyev’s Solo mini calligraphy brush.

• Paints: Artist quality tubes (student quality generally have too much filler, not enough pigment.) I use Winsor & Newton and Daniel Smith brand.

Suggested Colors: These are some of my ‘go to’ colors but every artist has their favorites. Please don’t feel obligated to add to your current palette if you are happy with your current colors.

• Alizarin Crimson
• Cadmium Red
• Aureolin Yellow

• Cadmium Yellow
• Raw Sienna
• Burnt Sienna
• Quinacridone Sienna (Daniel Smith)
• Cobalt Blue
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cerulean Blue
• Dr PH Mattin’s Bleed Proof White
• Sepia
• Neutral Tint (Daniel Smith)
• Carbazole Violet (Daniel Smith)
• Perylene Violet (Daniel Smith)

• Masking fluid

• Pencils – HB or 2H and a few B pencils (B – 6B)
• Sketch book
• White Eraser
• Tissues – kitchen towels or toilet paper
• Water container
• Spray bottle – I use the small atomizer type that shoots a fine mist as well as a larger one that can shoot larger water droplets

• Hair dryer
• Toothbrush or stiff Halo brush for splattering
• Packing tape
• Xacto knife with a sharp blade

Optional Supplies:

• As a watercolorist, I use tracing paper to work out my drawings so that I don’t have to erase and mark up my watercolor paper where I plan to do my finished artwork. I find that I often use 3 or 4 layers of tracing paper as I move things around to lay out my composition and construction lines. I then use carbon paper to transfer the image onto my final piece of paper. Students are welcome to do the same. It eliminates all the preliminary linework on your finished drawing that we need to do as we build and plan the piece using all our perspective lines etc.
• Tracing Paper
• Carbon Paper
• If you would like to do larger drawings feel free to bring larger pieces of paper or larger sketchbooks.

Instructor Bio: Brian Turner recently moved to Cochrane from the Ottawa area where he has taught watercolor for the past 5-6 years. He is an elected member of; The Society of Canadian Artists, The Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor, and The Federation of Canadian Artists. His experience with perspective drawing goes back to his teenage years when he worked as an architectural draftsman for an architectural firm in British Columbia. Brian has won numerous national awards and has had paintings featured on the cover of publications by the Federation of Canadian Artists and the Society of Canadian Artists. He was chosen as a finalist for the Artist Magazine’s ‘Splash 25 – The Best of Watercolor’ and will be published in the July 2024 edition of the Artist’s magazine. His work has been sold in numerous galleries in eastern and western Canada. His professional career was as a teacher and educational administrator, and he is as passionate about teaching as he is about watercolor painting.