The student will be able to:

1. Discuss professional contemporary illustrations that use watercolor media.
2. Study watercolor art from the non-Western and Western historical and contemporary art movements.
3. Integrate intermediate techniques in transparent and opaque water-media paints on various types of watercolor substrates, papers, and grounds.
4. Create intermediate color and design principles and use these principles in developing complex compositions.
5. Recognize complex color and use it expressively and spontaneously, developing form, movement, and composition directly on the paper.
6. Critique an understanding of the cultural and personal differences in their water-media art work.

1. Intermediate lab exercises structured to define and explore the various relationships between color theory terms, such as value intensity, chroma, value, and brilliance, and their application in watercolor
2. Intermediate level watercolor medium appropriates
   1. Techniques for expressing the subjects painted
   2. Intermediate-level brush techniques and paper supports
   3. Intermediate practice in pigments and paint applications
3. Recognize complex color and use it expressively and spontaneously
   1. Design concepts, movement, and composition
   2. Mixed media approaches to personal expression
   3. Watercolor crayons, pastels, and colored pencils
   4. Speed, brush strokes, and brush language approaches
   5. Expressive qualities with color
   6. Opaque watercolor and transparent watercolor approaches
4. Personal series of watercolor paintings
   1. Subject matter that connects to personal experiences and/or cultural heritages
   2. Series of course work that connects to watercolor in the field of illustration
   3. Series of the same subject matter
      1. Landscape, abstraction, portraiture, personal narratives, urban scenes, travel sketchbooks, animals
      2. Contemporary approaches to watercolor painting

1. Painting lab exercises using resists, wax, and other intermediate-level tools
2. A series of the similar intermediate-level subject matter
3. Exercises focused on intermediate-level traditional and experimental watercolor techniques
4. Intermediate lab time focused on intermediate brush techniques
5. Experimentation with watercolor pencils, opaque gouache paint, and water-based inks

Demonstration of intermediate levels of color mixing and value control in transparent watercolor
Sketchbook portfolios of complex intermixing of transparent and opaque paints on various surfaces
Presentations of complex practice in water-media in washes, glazes, and substrates using both transparent and opaque paints
Presentations of creative use of experimental media such as resists, block-out, and textural modifiers
Final class portfolio of water-media projects
Participation in class discussions and class critiques

Lectures on contemporary and historical Western and non-Western approaches to intermediate watercolor techniques
Online lectures and critiques on watercolor media
Laboratory on watercolor exercises
Demonstrations on watercolor techniques

Whyte, Mary. Watercolor for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter. 1997.

Although this text is older than the suggested "5 years or newer" standard, it remains a seminal text in this area of study.

1. An artist statement connecting a personal watercolor project.
2. A study of a contemporary watercolor painter.
3. A final e-portfolio of the student's personal intermediate-level series of watercolor painting.