Please note: the following
is a tentative agenda for the workshop. We may adjust the program as
needed to adapt to the skill levels of the workshop participants or
to meet time constraints.
This workshop is designed
to help artists become better interpreters of the landscape through
learning to see what nature does to catch our attention. Our role is
not to duplicate nature but to create new images based on our personal
experiences. We will explore a variety
of techniques and processes which will help us master the unique medium
of watercolor.
Day
1. Wednesday Feb. 20, 9am - 4pm
Morning:
Introductions
Discussion: Art and Human Emotions - the role of the artist
Powerpoint: Values, Shapes and Edges - What matters most - Basic Land
Masses
Powerpoint:
Seeing the Light - How humans really see nature
Demo: The Value Study in Pencil
Student Painting: Exercises in chiaroscuro
Materials needed: sketch paper or sketch books, soft pencil (4B or 6B)
Afternoon:
Demo: Palette & Paper - Set yourself up for success
Demo: Painting Values in Watercolor, controlling the water, identifying
edges through value contrast
Student Painting: Rocks, Shadows, Reflected Light. Exploring wet-on-wet
and wet-on-dry techniques
Materials needed: 4 pieces of WC paper cut to 1/8 sheet or 1/4 sheet
size; Paint, brushes, palette, water can etc.
Day
2.Thursday Feb. 21, 9am - 4pm
Morning:
Powerpoint: Understanding the characteristics of skies
Demo: Painting dramatic skies in 5 minutes or less
Student Painting: Exercises clouds and negative shapes
Afternoon:
Powerpoint: Creating Depth in your paintings with aerial and linear
perspective
Demo: Foreground, middle ground, and distance as I finish a painting
from this morning
Student Painting: Adding the land masses to sky paintings from this
morning
Materials needed: 4 pieces of WC paper cut to 1/8 sheet or 1/4 sheet
size; Paint, brushes, palette, water can etc.
Day
3. Friday Feb. 22, 9am - 4pm
Morning:
Powerpoint: Easy steps to good design - eye path, balance, center of
Interest.
Powerpoint: Good paintings from bad photos - Step by step paintings
Demo: Starting a new painting. Planning the painting using thumbnails,
what to put in, what to take out
Student Painting: Plan and start a new painting
Afternoon:
Powerpoint: From field sketches to finished studio paintings. Recording
and retaining with a sketchbook
Demo: Finish painting started this morning
Student Painting: Finish paintings from this morningMaterials needed:
4 pieces of WC paper cut to 1/8 sheet or 1/4 sheet size; Paint, brushes,
palette, water can etc.
Day
4. Saturday Feb. 23, 9am - 2pm
Morning:
Powerpoint: Back Painting - Using negative
painting for shrubs and trees
Demo: Negative Painting on trees, grasses, and shrubs
Student Painting: Plan and start a new painting, or finish previous
paintings
Afternoon:
Student Painting time: Each student will work on their own individual
paintings. You may finish earlier class paintings or start a new one
from your own reference photos. We will work up a quick value study
and spend the afternoon painting with individual instruction from the
teacher.
Wrap up and Critique:
Materials
List
Painting
demonstrations
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