This is a wonderful class to learn the basics of watercolor and drawing and advance to more complicated watercolors. Gain knowledge of the richness of warm and cool colors, understand the nature of their relationship, and learn how opaque and transparent colors work together.

Begin with simple studies and advance to still life, landscape, and portrait. Instruction includes lots of individual help.

This class is designed for both beginning and continuing students wishing to learn the basics of traditional watercolor. Composition, value, color mixing and design are taught in an atmosphere of helpful and friendly critiquing. Students learn techniques by doing copies of instructor and other master artists' works. They then apply those techniques to their own works from nature. This class will be taught online via Zoom. Upon registration and payment for the class, the instructor will email a supply list and other print-outs to you before the class begins. Lessons will be emailed prior to each session so you will have them available to you as you are watching the demonstration and working along with the instructor.

In this 3-day workshop students will learn the fundamentals of incorporating white chalk into their figurative drawing toolbox. By building light shapes with chalk we are able to explore the planar development of light masses while following the flow of light falling across the figure. Drawing will be done on toned paper, teaching students to identify the middle value range from which to key tonal relationships both up and down the value scale. By the end of the workshop, students will have a stronger understanding of the ever-elusive and incredibly subtle 'mid-value' range.

Develop a portrait in watercolor on one of two papers: cold press or hot press. Learn how each paper influences the medium and the finished look. The traditional cold-press method will start with a careful drawing, an underpainting, and then the base levels of color. The hot-press method will be more loose and spontaneous. Color will be a focus, using a limited palette of colors and transparent washes. Students will not finish a portrait but rather will be introduced to a technical process on how to start the painting. With more experience the finish will come naturally. Stuart will demonstrate each morning on his own painting. Afternoons will be for students to work from a live portrait model. Careful drawing will be a big part of this class.

This workshop will be a process and preliminary work focused class that will take place over the course of two weekends. The objective of the workshop will be the creation of preliminary work needed to execute a finished outdoor composition involving a clothed figure. Two Saturday afternoons will be spent out “in the field” working from a live model to create sketches, develop color studies, and gather reference images (photographs). Two Sunday afternoons will be spent working in-studio from the created reference materials to develop a well thought out, smaller scale, full-color composition. The goal by the end of the workshop will be for students to have on-hand the necessary preliminary work and knowledge to create a finished outdoor figurative composition back in their own studios.

Andy will contact the students closer to the time of the workshop to briefly go over the supply list and location for the outdoor portion of the workshop.

Dates: Saturday–Sunday, May 24–25 and Saturday–Sunday, May 31 – June 1
Length: 4 days
Time: 1:00pm–5:00pm