Watercolor Workshop with Lucia Gonnella Sat, March 15, 2025 --- 12p

Sat Mar 15 2025 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm UTC-07:00

Hayes Valley Art Works | San Francisco

Hayes Valley Art Works
Publisher/HostHayes Valley Art Works
Watercolor Workshop  with Lucia Gonnella  Sat, March 15, 2025   ---  12p
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Watercolor Workshop with instructor Lucia Gonnella! latest installment in HVAW's Watercolor series.
About this Event

Lucia Gonnella, a renowned plein air artist, leads our popular biweekly watercolor instruction series. Born in Italy, Lucia has extensive teaching experience and is a long-time resident of San Francisco.

This series is open to all skill levels, including beginners, intermediates, and advanced students. You will receive instruction on the basics as well as more advanced techniques to improve your skills. Lucia will demonstrate techniques step by step and guide attendees to produce a painting using the reference image provided at the end of the page, which will also be made available during the session.

This unique workshop has been running every other week since April 2020.

Reference image for the workshop will be provided below



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Suggested $10-$25, but any amount is welcome. A limited number of free tickets are available on as needed basis (contact us to request). A recording of the Zoom session will be made available to those with a minimum $10 entry.

Important - this. an ONLINE workshop, hosted by Hayes Valley Art Works - it will not be in the garden as Lucia is in Hawaii this week! To join - There are two steps!

1. Purchase your ticket, then

2. Follow the link emailed to you (and on the online event page) to register for the Zoom session (select the correct date from the dropdown when registering on the Zoom page)

I f you have any issues, email us at [email protected]

Lucia will demonstrate techniques step by step with a goal for each attendee to produce a painting, using the reference image above, which we will also make available during the session.

Techniques include: wet in wet in wet, wet on dry, spattering, blending, layers, masking, salt, and lifting techniques.

The supplies you'll need are as follows (don't worry if you don't have everything; there are workarounds if you have basic watercolor set):

Art Supplies:

  • Cold press watercolor paper 140lb
  • 2 plastic cups
  • Salt
  • Hair dryer
  • White gouache or acrylic
  • Palette
  • Paper towel
  • Artist tape
  • Masking fluid
  • Sponge
  • Pipette
  • Table salt
  • Cocktail stick
  • Spray bottle
  • twig
  • half of a cut credit card or Palette knife
  • sponge
  • toothbrush
  • micro pen 3.0 or 5.0 or pen
  • waterproof ink
  • Soap
  • Candle
  • Salt
  • White gouache or tempera or acrylic
  • Some pastel colors or pencils: white,burnt Sienna,yellow…

Brushes:

  • 1 flat brush 1”
  • round n.2
  • round n. 6

Paint colors recommended (can use similar colors as available):

  • Medium red
  • Cadmium red
  • Alizarin crimson
  • Lemon yellow
  • Dark/deep yellow
  • Ochre
  • Ultramarine blue
  • Phthalo blue
  • Cobalt blue
  • Cerulean blue
  • Violet
  • Sap green
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Burnt Umber
  • Paynes Grey

Techniques:

  • Wet in wet
  • Wet on dry
  • Blending
  • layers

Everyone is welcome to join, from beginners to advanced, kids and adults. The class is available on a sliding scale; a limited number of free tickets avalable to those on limited income. Donations to HVAW are welcomed. We look forward to seeing you!


JOIN ON ZOOM

Purchase ticket, then follow email instructions to get the ZOOM link.

Please consider a donation to Hayes Valley Artworks at DonateHVAW

https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTYwMzUz

Y ou can also Text to Donate by texting the word "watercolor" to 415-855-9001.

Facebook link

https://www.facebook.com/hayesvalleyartworks




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(Note, this is a still image clipped from a video.)

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Hayes Valley Art Works, 295 Oak Street, San Francisco, United States

Tickets

USD 0.00 to USD 17.85

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