Triton Online 2025: Expedition in Watercolor

Join us for our 5th year of the Triton Online Series, and for Jeff Bramschreiber’s 25th year of teaching for the museum! Enter an expedition with watercolors and watercolor pencils while using a brush, palette knife, and pen and ink! Students will also play with everyday items, such as tea for creating a marbled work of art, or salt to add texture to their works. For the first time, students will be able to select six, eight or ten week sessions, so don’t miss it! ALL levels are welcome.

Schedule:

Week 1: 1/15 - Bees and Clover (Watercolor Pencils, Pen and Ink)

Week 2: 1/22 - Plumerias (Watercolor)

Week 3: 1/29 - Harbor Seals (Watercolor Pencil)

Week 4: 2/5 - Desert Southwest (Watercolor and Watercolor Pencil)

Week 5: 2/12 - Faces of Ancient Egypt (Watercolor and Tea Batik)

Week 6: 2/19 - Floral Abstract (Knife Painted Watercolor)

Week 7: 2/26 - Cityscape (Watercolor)

Week 8: 3/5 - The Old Pier (Knife-Painted Watercolor)

Week 9: 3/12 - Sierra Stream (Watercolor)

Week 10: 3/19 - California Quail (Watercolor, Pen and Ink)

Recommended Materials List:

• 24 count Watercolor Pencils Set
• 5mm Mechanical Pencil with HB Lead or HB/H Pencils with Sharpener
• White Vinyl Eraser, Tombow Mono-Zero Eraser
• Metal Palette Knife (Tapered, with point)
• 9”x12” or 11”x14” 140 lb. Cold or Hot Press Watercolor Pad or Block
• 11”x14” Heavy Duty Drawing Pad
• 11”x14” Sketch Pad (20 or 24 lb.)
• Pentel Hybrid or Pigma Micron Black Pens (Small Sizes)
• Brushes #2 & 4 round, #1 Script/Liner, 3/4” and 1” Wash or Stroke Brush.

Recommended Watercolors:

• Ivory Black
• Chinese White
• Alizarin Crimson
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cadmium Yellow Light
• Naples Yellow
• Cadmium Yellow Medium
• Cadmium Red Light
• Cadmium Red Medium
• Pthalo Red
• Sap Green
• Permanent Green Light
• Hooker’s Green
• Olive Green
• Green Gold
• Mauve
• Dioxazine Purple
• Raw Sienna
• Burnt Sienna
• Burnt Umber
• Phthalo Blue
• Cerulean Blue
• Cobalt Blue

For a visual list of preferred materials on Amazon, email Jeff at bramschreiberjeff846@gmail.com

Questions? Please contact education@tritonmuseum.org

Artist Biography:

Jeff Bramschreiber has been drawing and painting for over forty years, and while he is primarily a pastelist, he also frequently works in acrylic, watercolor, silverpoint, most dry media and even airbrush. His artworks hang in private collections throughout the United States and Europe and have received many awards.

A local art advocate, he has served as an art club president, (East Valley Artists and Santa Clara Art Association), as a juror with nearly fifty shows to his credit, as treasurer and lecturer for Silicon Valley Open Studios, as a demonstrator and lecturer for many of the Bay Area art clubs, colleges and museums.

Jeff also worked at University Art San Jose for 21 years before its closing in 2018 as an assistant Manager, Frame Designer, and Community Art Liaison. Mr. Bramschreiber has also helped coordinate, organize, and participate in numerous local art shows, group shows and events throughout his career.

Currently he is an exhibiting and “live paint” artist at Kaleid Gallery in Downtown San Jose; Jeff is also an art instructor for the Triton Museum of Art, The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, and The Villages Arts and Crafts Association.