2011 Watercolor Painting Workshops in St. George Utah

January 2011 Drawing and Painting Art Class - "Painting Snow and the Winter Landscape in Watercolor"

The Januaary 2011painting workshop was sponsored by Becky Whitney and held at A Passion for Painting Art Gallery. We worked in the classroom from photographs which were shot near Zion National Park at the Clear Creek Ranch.

Watecolor demonstration of painting snow by Roland Lee
Winter Evergreens, 5 x 8 watercolor demonstration by Roland Lee

Once each winter I conduct a special workshop dealing with How to paint snow in watercolor. I love painting snow scenes but I am not particularly fond of the cold so I don't do a lot of outdoor painting in the winter. Instead I use my pocket camera and bravely dash out into the cold and shoot like crazy, then retire to the warmth of my studio to do my painting. All the reference material we used in this class was shot in the last few weeks up at the Clear Creek Ranch and at our cabin on the east border of Zion National Park. We had plenty of snow to work so I put together a PowerPoint showing how to paint the effect of heavy snowfall on evergreens and how reflected light and cast shadows can be used to describe mass and form in the winter landscape. It was a great class with some of my most accomplished students. The paintings shown here were done as demonstrations in class and are about 5" x 8" in size.

Watercolor painting demonstration on painting winter scene by Roland Lee
Winter Path 5 x 8 watercolor class demo

Watercolor Painting demonstration step by step by Roland Lee
Winter Weeds - Reference photo and thumbnail study

Watercolor Painting demonstration step by step by Roland Lee
Outline sketch on 140 lb Arches watercolor paper

Watercolor Painting demonstration step by step by Roland Lee
First watercolor glazes
Watercolor Painting demonstration step by step by Roland Lee
Winter Weeds - finished painting 5 x 8 watercolor demo

Connie Willey


Karen Bettilyon

Jean Mooney

Vicki Clayton

Shari Cannon


Classroom at A Passion for Painting in St. George UT

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