MULTI-WEEK CLASS
Design Topics in Watercolor
Visual Arts Center
Richmond Virginia
September 19-October 24, 2025
Fridays 10-12:30
For those who are already proficient with the watercolor medium. Students will expand watercolor expertise with a new topic introduced each week. Some exercises include and are sequential: botanical illustration, oversized still life, exercises to loosen up, skeleton study, and painting from a live (clothed) model.
WEEKEND FALL WORKSHOP
Sketchbook as a Traveling Companion & Visual Memoir FULL with a WAITLIST
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond Virginia
November 8-9, 2025
10am-4pm
Want to be able to capture that sense of a wonderful moment and place whether traveling or just hanging out? Or record the little and big items in your life to create a unique visual record? Participants will learn several easy and successful strategies for drawing, painting, collage and writing in situ to turn their adventures and everyday life into hand held works of art. Mini-field trips within and outside the museum will also offer source material and inspiration.
Basic watercolor and drawing skills are not essential but will be helpful.
Register Here (Workshop 33)
Value to Color to Eye Travel
Alexandria Art League (Torpedo Factory)
Northern Virginia
December 6-7, 2025
Learn how value and color are related so that you can make them work for your benefit to give your paintings the impact or subtlety that you want them to have. The strategies taught create a stronger awareness of presence, eye travel and illusionary space in your work. Instead of focusing on one or two finished pieces, several studies will be created. This technique driven workshop has been featured by the artist in Watercolor Artist Magazine and is not media sensitive-watercolor, acrylic, and oils are all welcome. Please use a medium that you are familiar with.
Prerequisites: basic drawing and painting skills .
MULTI-WEEK WORKSHOP
Introduction to Watercolor- Workshop
Visual Arts Center
Richmond, Virginia
Friday Mornings January-March
9:30am-noon
Get introduced to watercolors or refresh your knowledge of the medium. We’ll explore our materials, then cover application methods like wet–on–wet, glazes, blocks, resists and lifts. We’ll also cover work area set–up, composition set–up, lost and found edges, transferring imagery and methods for controlling the paint. With an emphasis on value as a way to produce convincing compositions, class discussions will touch on color theory, light, texture, and transparency. We’ll paint from direct observation and reference photos. Expect lots of one–on–one guidance and detailed demonstration from the instructor. Students will come away with a deeper understanding of this medium and its expressive possibilities.
Registration Coming Soon (VisArts.org)
One Day WORKSHOP
NEW Colors that Converse, Talk, Shout, Mumble and Whisper: An Unique Approach to Color Theory and Composition
Alexandria Art League (Torpedo Factory)
Northern Virginia
January 10, 2026
MID WEEK WORKSHOP
Visual Hierarchy in Painting Composition
Alexandria Art League (Torpedo Factory)
Northern Virginia
March 24-26,2026
3 Day Workshop 10am-4pm
In this fast paced three day workshop we will be exploring how to visually compose by using a sequential approach to the elements of design that promotes a variety of eye travel paths and focal points in your work. Beginning with simple cut paper collage work to quickly understand and manipulate different compositional models, then moving onto thumbnail copyist studies, the class will transition to painting student's own desired subject matter. If time allows, students will also learn how to set up their own still life and edit in-camera reference photos for more dynamic compositions.
Prerequisites: basic drawing and painting skills .