{"id":1836,"date":"2016-02-01T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2016-02-18T21:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:08:54","slug":"watercolors-for-intermediate-level-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"Watercolors for Intermediate Level Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1837 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PreClassSwatches.jpg\" alt=\"PreClassSwatches\" width=\"858\" height=\"570\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>This week I am participating in another online card class and decided to share a few of the projects I&#8217;m working on. Prior to class starting it was suggested that participants create swatches of owned watercolors to get a feel for the type of opacity they may have. I have multiple mediums I use when it comes to watercolors on my cards but for this class, I&#8217;m sticking with mostly my Sakura Koi set and my Holbein Artists&#8217; Gouache set.I created the swatch sheet to mark down which pigments I found to be opaque (o), semi-translucent (st), or translucent (t).<\/p>\n<p>I created the swatch sheet to mark down which pigments I found to be opaque (o), semi-translucent (st), or translucent (t).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next, I created the suggested glazing chart as well. The chart uses 3 pigments (red, blue, and \u00a0yellow) to create multiple colors and hues. It&#8217;s an excellent exercise in learning the types of colors that you can mix together rather than purchase &#8220;premade&#8221; as a pigment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1838 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PreclassGlazingChart.jpg\" alt=\"PreclassGlazingChart\" width=\"858\" height=\"570\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the pre-class suggested exercises complete &#8211; I&#8217;m ready to dig into the course and learn more about watercolors for cardmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, This week I am participating in another online card class and decided to share a few of the projects I&#8217;m working on. Prior to class starting it was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[556,554,555,553],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cards","tag-holbein","tag-sakura-koi","tag-swatches","tag-watercolors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}