Watercolor is a complex medium – one with many aspects and elements to it. Glazing is just one aspect. 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.
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.
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.
Drawing is about self-discovery. It is about tuning in and tuning out. The week will be as much about learning how to shut out the world and allow yourself to tap into your artist self as it trying different ways to draw. With a “Yes I can!” attitude, anyone can learn to draw.
Because of the gift of a sketchbook, I discovered a way of drawing that you might enjoy. The particular sketchbook isn’t necessary, but does present its own challenges and rewards. The real point is continuous drawing.
Dedicate an appropriate-sized sketchbook to […]
UPDATE: 09/01/16 The painting has returned! Hooray!!!! The United States Postal sent it back with an unable to deliver, no forwarding address. I was told the wife had signed for it, but fortunately for me no wife at that address. No signature. I am going to delete the addresses, all bogus, but leave the story as a warning to us all.
As you finish up the chores outside and turn to more studio time, are you at a loss for where to begin? I made a new artist friend this summer, Devin Kleiner. When I went to his website, http://www.devinkleinerart.com/ I was delighted with his experimental approach to watercolor. Let me share some to inspire you to do likewise.
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I have an active group of on-line students in the Getting Started class who are wrestling with wet-on-wet. Sometimes it seems to me the problem isn’t about technique, it is mental.
Gaining “control” by allowing things to happen.
Learning to appreciate what the paint does instead of trying to make an object.
It is all right to go through lots of good watercolor paper and lots of good pigment to learn what happens when the paper is wet or not, what happens when there is more or less water on your brush and what happens when there is more or less paint on your brush along with that amount of water on your brush and that amount of water on the paper.
You and the paper and paint become compatriots in telling your story.
I am going to share some of my students’ paintings in order for you to let go of coloring things and learn how to become a collegue of wet on wet.