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Brookgreen U

Watercolor Portrait Workshop: A step-by-step guide

Members
$85
Non-Members
$95
Where

Lowcountry Center

Learning Lab 1

When
Fri, May 16 2025, 10am - 2pm
Fri, May 16 2025
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Joshua Knight 1

In this portrait workshop, you’ll learn how to create a beautiful watercolor portrait from start to finish. We’ll begin with basic sketching techniques and transfer methods for understanding facial proportions, then move on to layering washes for life like skin tones and depth. You'll learn watercolor techniques for building dimensions, detailing facial features, and refining shadows. By the end, you'll have a fully realized portrait with smooth transitions, dynamic contrasts, and a polished final piece. Perfect for beginners or anyone looking to enhance their portrait skills.  

 

About the Speaker:   

Joshua Knight is a Native American award-winning artist working out of SC in various mediums, from charcoal to watercolor and oils. In his personal artistic expression, Josh tends to create work dealing with portraiture/figure with other objects as a means of symbolic representation of his personal life and experiences. He explores a wide range of media from 2-D to 3-D, with concentrations in drawing, painting, and ceramics/sculpture. He received his BA from Coastal Carolina University and his master's from the University of South Carolina. He is a teaching associate at Coastal Carolina University in the Department of Visual Arts. 

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Joshua Knight 2

Materials 

Graphite pencils 

Kneaded erasers 

Watercolor paper (11x14) – 140lb 

Painting support – drawing board 

 

Watercolor paints with Palette – colors needed or similar: 

  • Cad red or warm red 

  • Alizarin Crimson or cool red 

  • Yellow ochre 

  • Hanson yellow or cool yellow 

  • Cad yellow or warm yellow 

  • Viridian or any other green 

  • Burnt sienna 

  • Raw umber or burnt umber 

  • Ultramarine or cerulean or any blue of you want 

  • Ivory Black 

 

Brushes: Similar to the following 

  • Flat wash: Med-large, big washes and to wet paper 

  • Flat Medium/small for smaller areas 

  • Round brush: Medium and small sized. – Small round for details 

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