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The Sketchbook Society

Join us live November 12th @ 12:00pm EST

Welcome to our next class focus in The Sketchbook Society Grounded in the Garden by Natalie Mecham.

Spring arrives with an invitation to slow down and notice, the light shifting, the garden waking, the quiet return of color. This round of Sketchbook Society answers that invitation with Grounded in the Garden, a watercolor class by artist Natalie Mecham.

Natalie believes that making art offers the same nourishing presence as sitting beside a garden with your hands in the earth. In this class, she guides us through expressive watercolor portraits, florals, and garden-inspired studies, weaving in mixed media touches and a philosophy of creative grounding: that the act of making brings us back to ourselves.

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supply list

  • Tracing paper
  • Stamps and ink pads
  • Colored pencils that coordinate with your paint colors: I use Faber Castell brand, the colors I prefer for flesh tones are; Light Flesh, Medium Flesh, Dark Flesh, Walnut brown, Indanthrene blue

Watercolor paint

  • On my palette for lesson one, all are Daniel Smith; Hansa Yellow Med., Phthalo Yellow Green, Fushite, Ultramarine Blue, Quinacridone Purple, Burnt Umber, Undersea Green, Quinacridone Rose
  • On my palette for lesson two, all are Daniel Smith; Rhodonite, Indian Yellow, Shadow Violet, Manganese Blue, Amazonite, Phthalo Yellow Green, Prussian Green, Burnt Umber, Duo Artic Fire
  • On my palette for lesson three, all are Winsor and Newton: Winsor Yellow, Permanent Rose, Permanent Sap Green, Cerulean Blue, French Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Sienna
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