Are you ready to get started in loose watercolor or uplevel your existing skills in a relaxed, supportive environment? Join this class and start gaining the confidence necessary to eliminate guesswork and paint intuitively and joyfully!
In this full-day workshop, we’ll explore ways to achieve the fresh, spontaneous quality of loose watercolor that gives this style its unique beauty. Heather will share insights and techniques for relaxing your approach to this challenging but compelling medium as well as key techniques for gaining control over the painting process.
Beginning with warm-up exercises to become more comfortable with our tools and the behavior of water, pigments, and ink, we’ll then delve into principles that will enable us to capture the essence of our floral subject. Principles involving shape, value, and color mixing will develop your compositional skills with any subject that you would like to paint, and hands-on practice in these areas will prepare you to create an expressive watercolor and ink painting of tulips showcasing your own individual vision. You’ll leave with a knowledge of best practices drawn from Heather's experience, strategies for continuing this intuitive style of painting on your own, and a new (or renewed) sense of joy in the creative process.
This extended course is perfect for both complete beginners and those with some experience who are looking for more targeted practice with this approach to expressive painting. If you’re new to loose watercolor, this immersive workshop will provide a supportive foundation that will help you bypass many frustrations. If you’re a returning student, you’ll be able to deepen your skills and receive more insight on your own process. (Students from Heather’s Color Mixing class series will be able to use the split-primary palettes from those classes to continue to hone their mixing abilities.)
Come enjoy a relaxed day of painting together as we exercise creative intuition and explore the exciting ways that watercolor and ink can interact!
ages 15 and up
$75
