The on-line class, Getting Started in Watercolor is, in large part, exercises to get to know and understand the magical formula of how much water on the paper means how much water and how much pigment on the brush. Its learning what you can accomplish with the different combinations.
In writing about a posted painting a current student, Penny Chapman, wrote:
I have worked on the wet on wet techniques until felt like I was beginning to understand how the water moves […]
Ongoing
At your home.
Watercolor is a complex medium – one with many aspects and elements to it. Glazing is just one aspect – and this on-line course is solely devoted to this process. Glazing is the application of a layer of color over one that has already dried. Developing skill in glazing lets you in on the secret of luminous color that is a major characteristic of watercolor.
Ongoing
At your home
Three of the giants in watercolor in the 20th century, Rex Brandt, Millard Sheets and Ed Whitney will share with you some of their most important lessons. Caroline had the good fortune to study with all three and has been teaching their principles for the last thirty years. She has distilled some of their most important concepts for this course.
Sat & Sun, October 3 & 4, 2020
Olga Community Club, Olga, Orcas Island WA
Canceled
Watercolor is fun! You have been trying it on your own, or taken a few classes. You have been working with suggestions in books and even tried some U-tube lessons but you don’t feel “in control. ” When will confidence come? This weekend workshop is designed to help you take charge of the sequences by which you create paintings.
Canceled for now: I will be expanding the on-line and Zoom offerings
Watercolor is about process. Watercolor is about water. To work in watercolor you need to master control and use of the water. You need to learn when to do what — and what effect you will achieve. It isn’t about “making paintings” until the process are understood and at your command. This week is dedicated to the tricky business of water and color — what’s known as WATERCOLOR.
Orcas Island, plein air
canceled
This is the week to get outside to draw and paint. Learn the techniques for quick interpretations when you are traveling as well as for a slow and steady progress in seeing and recording the world around you. The summer is starting to slip away. When you take the time to stop and look and draw you lock it away — to be brought out and savored whenever you choose.
We will be outside – 6 or more feet apart and the class limited to 5. Contact me directly for a space – watercolors@rockisland.com or 360 298 2641
THERE IS NO BAD PIGMENT.
JUST A WRONG TIME TO USE IT.
Thursday & Friday, April 16 & 17, 2020, 9:30- 3:30
Cottage Hobby House, 12th and M, Anacortes, WA 98221
To be rescheduled
Confused by terms like staining, sedimentary, granulating, etc? Not know when you should use one kind of pigment rather than another? This two-day workshop not only explains the differences in kinds of pigments but shows you how and when to use them for maximum effectiveness.
First ZOOM CLASS!!
It worked! We will be doing it again.
Learn how to fill your paintings with sunshine. There are important rules you need to apply – and seeing is believing. This two-day workshop has been moved to ZOOM. We will begin at 10am on Sunday for a 45 minute introduction lecture, demo and assignment. Meet again at 2:00. Monday morning at 10 and 2 also; each time you will watch a teaching presentation, be given an assignment and time to complete it. Plus email jpegs of what you did for me to review with you.
What drew you to watercolors? When I wasn’t sure which media I wanted to pursue, I started noticing how time and again I was drawn to the watercolors in any exhibit. By comparison, the oils left me cold. The luminosity of watercolor captured me. Watercolor are luminous or can glow because the lights of the painting come through the colors from the white paper. The colors glow like stain glass windows.
In the last post, we only scratched the surface of working with the white of the paper in watercolor. Do do this you need to plan the shapes or paths of your values ahead of time.
Let’s explore some more techniques for learning to see the shapes of the lights, the mid-tones and the darks with which you design you paintings.