September 27-November 1, 2022
Introduction to Watercolor
Tuesdays 9:30-12noon
Visual Arts Center, Richmond Virginia
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.
Click here for more information or to register
October 22-23, 2022
Value to Color In Painting
10am-4pm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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 is not media sensitive, watercolor, acrylic, and oils are all welcome. Please use a medium that you are familiar working with. Prerequisites: basic drawing and painting.
Click here to register (workshop 29)
December 17-18, 2022
Setting the Tone While Pushing Your Limits
10am-4pm
The Art League of Alexandria
Students learn what it takes to have their work noticed from across the room and compel the viewer to come in for a closer look. Using techniques from the 17th to 21st centuries in a short sequential series of enjoyable exercises, students begin with a simple still life then advance to the subject matter of choice. The strategies taught create a stronger sense of presence, eye travel and illusionary space in the students’ work – beneficial for any style from realism to non-representational. Instead of focusing on one or two finished pieces, several short studies are created. This technique driven workshop is not media sensitive; drawing, watercolor, acrylic and oils are all welcome.
Click here to register
Sunday April 10, 2022
Yoga and Painting Workshop “Nurture in Nature: Beauty in the Unplanned”
Time TBA 2-3 hours long in the afternoon
Deep Run Park Shelter #3
Henrico County Virginia
Sponsored by the Glenmore Yoga Center
Tag team teaching with RN and certified yoga instructor, Sue Agee, of Glenmore Yoga Center and PeaceLoveRVA. This workshop promises to be a creative, and expanding experience based on an interplay of meditative yoga and watercolor practices in a beautiful natural environment.
Check out Glenmore Yoga Center for more information and to register.
FULL with WAITLIST
May 10- June 7, 2022
Introduction to Watercolor
Tuesday Mornings 10-12:30
Visual Arts Center Richmond, Virginia
See the description for the Intro to Watercolor weekend workshop below
Check Visarts.org/classes for registration availability in late Dec/early Jan 2022
FULL with WAITLIST
January 22-23, 2022
Introduction to Watercolor Weekend Workshop
10am-4pm
Visual Arts Center Richmond, Virginia
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.
For more details and to get on waitlist, click here.
FULL
April 2-3, 2022
Color Theory with the Masters
10am-4pm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, Virginia
Studio School, 1st floor
$145 (VMFA members $130) | Limit: 8 Prerequisites: basic drawing & painting skills.
In this fast-paced wet-media workshop, students will use exercises and studies to explore color concepts such as temperature, intensity, chromatic neutrals, color schemes, and limited palettes to help construct harmonious color compositions. Learn how the masters, including some from the VMFA collection, have used these same color challenges in their artwork. Students may choose to work in watercolor, acrylic or oil paints and must be familiar with their chosen medium and the 12-step color wheel.
For more details about registration click here (workshop 34)
July 17-22, 2022
Watercolor Studies - All Levels
Nimrod Hall, Summer Arts Program
Bath County Virginia
A week long retreat to the historical and beautiful Nimrod Hall on the edge of the George Washington National Forest. (3hrs west of Richmond, Virginia)
Instruction will include plein air, composition, and color theory augmented with slideshows of masterworks and teacher demos. Price includes lodging, all meals, access to walking trails, enclosed swimming pond and tubing on the river. Evening “porching” while watching firefly shows with new friends is an added bonus.
More information will be available mid January, here.