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• VIRTUAL - The Critique Forum

  • Start
    March 16, 2021
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  • End
    May 04, 2021
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
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  VIRTUAL - The Critique Forum
  

  Ellen Orseck

  Eight Weeks

  Tuesdays, March 16 - May 04,

  10:00am-12:30pm Central Time

  $200 members
  

  This 8-week course is designed to help artists develop artworks that are recognized as a cohesive series or to offer guidance for a series already in progress.  Artists may come to the class with a previously developed concept or walk through the steps of developing a thesis for a body of work that holds together in theme, technique and concept.  Based on the needs of the group, the instructor will assign exercises to identify and narrow the artistic direction of each student.  A portion of each class will be spent looking at art historical examples to inform and inspire.  Equal time will be allotted for each artist to have their work reviewed by the class in order to glean aesthetic, technical and intellectual feedback.  The optimum goal is to create a body of work that holds together conceptually and will be ready for presentation either digitally or in an exhibition setting.

  
  

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• VIRTUAL - The Art of Ink

  • Start
    March 19, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    May 07, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
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  VIRTUAL - The Art of Ink
  

  Ellen Orseck

  Eight Weeks

  Fridays, March 19 - May 07,

  10:00am-12:30pm Central Time

  $200 members
  

  Fluid, opaque, transparent, and varied; ink is a versatile medium that artists have used for centuries.  Comprised of solvents, pigments, resins, and other materials, ink can be applied with a pen, a quill, a brush or alternative tools. This 8-week course will examine the history and practical application of ink as a fine-art-medium to be used alone or in conjunction with other water media.   Experts from Dromgoole’s Fine Writing Instruments, via Zoom, will work closely with the class to demonstrate alternative ways of using writing tools and inks in the painting process. 

  
  

  Supply List:
  

  Ball Point Pen Black Ink (Your choice of pen and brand)

  Brushes - best are natural bristles or synthetic squirrel. I like Princeton Neptune Series,

  Number 4 round, Number 12 round, Oval Wash and Aquarelle ¾. (29.87)

  Containers with lids for mixing ink – five of them

  Daniel Smith Walnut Drawing Ink  2 oz (9.67) or Walnut Drawing Ink 2.4 oz (10.91)

  Dr. Ph.Martin Bleed Proof white (9.44)

  Erasers-Kneaded Gum Eraser, Vinyl Erasers

  Liquid Ink Black 1-2 oz container, your choice of brand.  Select one:

              Daler-Rowney (6.43)

  Higgins (5.34)

              Liquitex (5.87)

              Sennelier (12.52

  Speedball (4.99)

  Liner Pens Black Sakura Micron, Sepia Sakura Micron Sets (8.99 each)

  Quink Black (11.93) - Amazon

  Gray Scale & Value Finder (Amazon, Dick Blick, Walmart, or Jerry’s Artarama)

  Paper Towels

  Paper -Strathmore Mixed Media Paper 11 x 14-inch, 140 lb White (11.93)

  Pencil Sharpener, and an X-acto Knife or retractable Utility Knife

  Pencils

  Razor Blade or X-acto Knife

  Speedball No.5 Artist Set – nibs and holder (15.28)

  Tombow Mono Sand Eraser (5.99) - Amazon

  Toothbrush for Splattering

  ​​​​​​Walnut Drawing Stick (9.35)

  Waterbrush Derwent or Any brand, round, medium 3 mm (9.99)

  Watercolor Supplies (Please contact instructor if you need a watercolor supply list)

  Windex and An Old Toothbrush for Cleaning

   

  Art Supply Sources:

  Art Supply on Almeda

  Daniel Smith

  Dick Blick

  Hobby Lobby

  Jerry’s Artarama (10% discount)

  Michael’s

  Target

  Texas Art Supply

  Walmart

   

  A virtual field trip and ink demonstration may suggest other materials to be introduced later in the semester.

  
  

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• VIRTUAL - Watercolor from the Start - Part 1

  • Start
    April 05, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    April 26, 2021
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
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  VIRTUAL - Watercolor from the Start - Part 1
  Susan Giannantonio

  Monday evenings
  April 5, 12, 19, 26

  6:30-8:00pm Central
  

  $100 members/$140 non-members
  

  
  

   Watercolor from the Start
   Explore watercolor basics, whether you’re beginning or getting back in the groove. Supply Lists for either tight budgets or for splurging—your choice

  
  

   Playful paint-alongs each week

  
  

   4 weeks: Exploring materials

  
  

  Week 1 Exploring Color

  Samples, charts, color wheel

  Limited palettes: Favorite Combinations

  Paint - Along

  
  

  Week 2 Painting Materials

  Paper

  Brushes and Other Painting Tools

  Paint - Along

  
  

  Week 3 Shortcuts to composition. Getting to the painting part more quickly

  Tracing, graphing

  Copyright issues & copying others' work

  Paint - Along

  
  

  Week 4 Making Marks

  Tools for marks & textures

  Looking at Masters

  Paint-Along

  Note: Please note that registration will close January 30 at noon central time. Please register early.

  
  

  More details:  www.susangiannantonio.com

  Supply List:

  GiannantonioBeginnerWatercolorSupplyList.pdf

  
  

   

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• IN PERSON - Portrait Painting

  • Start
    April 08, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    April 29, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    1601 W. Alabama at Mandell, Houston TX 77006
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  IN PERSON - Portrait Painting
  

  Professor Mohammad Ali Bhatti
  Thursdays,  April 8, 15, 22, 29
  9:30am - 12:30pm
  $180 members/$220 non-members

  This class is designed to learn basic techniques of portrait painting in watercolor medium. Class demos will help you to learn portrait painting skills, techniques, and applying tone values. In many ways, portrait painting is a fun class. It is exciting, full of artistic challenges as well as giving you confidence in working with the loose brush and in understanding light and shade.

  
  

  Click HERE for supply list.

  https://artistmohammadali.com/Save

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• VIRTUAL - Watercolor/Watermedia Fast & Loose

  • Start
    April 08, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    May 27, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
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  VIRTUAL -   Watercolor/Watermedia Fast & Loose
  Susan Giannantonio

  Thursday afternoons
  April 8 - May 27 - 8 sessions

  1:00-3:00pm 

  $225 members/$305 non-members

  Are you tired of looking at realistic depictions of your painting subject? Do you love other painters’ work because of its fresh, bold strokes? The goal of this class is to paint A LOT.  We will have many timed, quick sessions including blind contour painting and drawing.  Our objective is to see how gestural our marks will become once we get out of our own way! If you prefer to work with acrylics, inks or gouache in this class and paint in a thin watercolor style, join us!

  More details:  www.susangiannantonio.com
  

  Supply List:
  
  Giannantonio_fast_loose.pdf
  

  
  

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• Don Andrews Workshop

  • Start
    April 12, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    April 14, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    1601 West Alabama
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    0

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  IN PERSON: Designing Nature Watercolor Workshop -Don Andrews  
  

  April 12-14, 2021
  $250

  Seasoned artists and teachers will tell you that their biggest breakthrough came when they began applying design concepts into their paintings. Early in our painting life we all struggle to copy nature as we see it. Painting becomes a lot of work with little reward. What's missing is an understanding of design. Design concepts are logical, learnable, and once you have them they'll be evident in every painting you paint.

  

  See more of about Don and his work at www.donandrewsstudio.com. 

  Don Andrews Workshop Materials List 
  

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• IN PERSON - Texture and Dry Brush

  • Start
    April 17, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    April 18, 2021
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    1601 W. Alabama at Mandell, Houston TX 77006
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  IN PERSON - Wood Texture and Dry Brush

  Les McDonald, Jr.
  Saturday & Sunday,
  April 17 & 18
  9:00am - 4:00pm
  $150 members/$170 non-members

  Texture is a major application in most of your paintings. You will find that Dry Brush applies to much of your painting. Instruction on types of texture and dry brush will be approached.  All levels welcome.

  
  

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• IN PERSON - Cityscape/Landscape Painting

  • Start
    April 24, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    April 25, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    1601 W. Alabama at Mandell, Houston TX 77006
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  IN PERSON - Cityscape/Landscape Painting
  

  Professor Mohammad Ali Bhatti
  Saturday & Sunday, April 24 & 25
  9:30am - 3:30pm
  $150 members/$170 non-members

  This class is designed to learn basic techniques of Cityscape/Landscape painting in watercolor medium. Class demoes will help you to understand color value, form, and space such as painting sky, clouds, mountain, water, trees, bushes etc. The focus of the classes will understanding of shapes, perspective, color and composition techniques. Bring good quality photos of landscape or cityscape of your own choice as reference for painting.

  
  

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• Refresher Course for Previously Trained Workshop Monitors

  • When
    May 03, 2021
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    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (CDT)
  • Location
    WASH 1601 West Alabama at Mandell, Houston, Texas 77006
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  REFRESHER COURSE FOR PREVIOUSLY TRAINED WORKSHOP MONITORS

  Beth Graham, president@watercolorhouston.org

  

  Monday morning, May 3, 2021

  10:00-11:00 a.m.

  No fee for refresher course, but use your current monitor code to register.
  For vaccinated members only due to the health needs of the instructor.

  This course is an update for previously trained workshop monitors, focusing on the new Audio-Visual system. Monitor code is changing for the Summer Semester! Update your training to receive the new code.

  Workshop Monitors are those members who have taken this training to be certified to do the tasks required to assist teachers during a class or workshop.  Trained Monitors receive a 50% tuition discount when serving as workshop monitor.  

  Topics include opening & closing security gates, monitoring the locked door for arriving students, operating AV technology, kitchen & clean up tasks, and more. 

  Help  our wonderful teachers focus on instruction and working with students, and save yourself some money!
  

  One spot per each in-person class & workshop will be available for registration at the reduced monitor tuition. Only those who complete this training and can handle the AV equipment successfully will be provided a code and then be able to register as monitor.

  NOTE: You must show proof of vaccination when you arrive at class.

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• VIRTUAL - Watercolor from the Start -Part 2

  • Start
    May 03, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    May 24, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
  • Spaces left
    39

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  VIRTUAL - Watercolor from the Start - Part 2
  Susan Giannantonio

  May 3, 10, 17, 24

  6:30-8:00pm Central
  

  $100 members/$140 non-members
  

  
  

  Watercolor from the Start

  Explore watercolor basics, whether you’re beginning or getting back in the groove. Supply Lists for either tight budgets or for splurging—your choice

  Playful paint-alongs each week

  
  

  4 weeks: Creating Simple Paintings
  

  
  

  Week 1 Simple Landscape Textures
  

  Practicing Landscape Marks
  

  Paint - Along
  

  
  

  Week 2 Simple Flower Textures
  

  Look at Masters

  Merging Colors

  Green Mixes
  

  Paint - Along
  

  
  

  Week 3 Depicting Water/Seascape
  

  Waves, Reflections
  

  Skies

  Paint - Along
  

  
  

  Week 4 Wrap-up
  

  Values
  

  Looking at Masters

  Review

  
  

  More details:  www.susangiannantonio.com
  

   Supply List:
  

  GiannantonioBeginnerWatercolorSupplyList.pdf

   

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• VIRTUAL - The Peony - Gong-bi Techniques

  • Start
    May 04, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    May 25, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
  • Spaces left
    11

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  VIRTUAL - The Peony - Gong-bi
  Techniques (detailed style)
  

  Peihong Endris
  

  Tuesdays
  May 4, 11, 18, 25
  1:30 - 4:00 pm
  $150 members/$190 non-members
  

  The Gong-bi technique, founded approximately 2000 years ago during the Han Dynasty, uses highly detailed brushstrokes that delimits details very precisely and, opposite of a free style, without independent or expressive variation. Together, we will study this technique with its focus on delicacy, precision, detail, and patience. Welcome all levels.
  

  
  

  Supply list:

  1. Two sheets of 20”x15” boards as wooden or Plastic Corrugated (Michael’s care Plastic Corrugated sheet 20” x 30”, to make two sheets)

  2. A roll an inch masking tape or Blue tape.
  3. One 2.5 or 3 inch flat soft bristles as sheep hair brushes.

  4. A box of Chinese Marie's colors (https://www.jerrysartarama.com/maries-chinese-watercolor- painting-set)

  5. 2-5 sheet of Non absorbency rice paper, We called Shimming size Shuen or Cicada Wing ( on orientalartsupply.com the shimmer size Shuen called P14BP and Cicada wing Size Shuen called P14C. Amazon called MEGREZ Chinese Japanese Calligraphy Practice Writing Sumi Drawing Xuan Rice Paper Thickening Without Grids 100 Sheets/Set - 34 x 68 cm (13.38 x 27.77 inch), Shu (Ripe) Xuan

  6. 2 small and one large combinations brush as surrounding with white sheep hair and inner with brown hard briskets. One fine tip brushes for detailed lines work.

  7. A bottle of Sumi-e ink. Couple of porcelain dishes as your old dish or any kind of trays. A roll of paper towel. A wash container.

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• Training to Become a Workshop Monitor

  • When
    May 05, 2021
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (CDT)
  • Location
    WASH 1601 West Alabama at Mandell, Houston, Texas 77006
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  TRAINING TO BECOME A WORKSHOP MONITOR

  Beth Graham, president@watercolorhouston.org

  

  Wednesday morning, May 5

  10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

  $10 fee
  For vaccinated members only due to the health needs of the instructor.

  Workshop Monitors are those members who have taken this training to be certified to do the tasks required to assist teachers during a class or workshop.  Trained Monitors receive a 50% tuition discount when serving as workshop monitor.  

  Topics include opening & closing security gates, monitoring the locked door for arriving students, operating AV technology, kitchen & clean up tasks, and more. 

  Help  our wonderful teachers focus on instruction and working with students, and save yourself some money!
  

  One spot per each in-person class & workshop will be available for registration at the reduced monitor tuition. Only those who complete this training and can handle the AV equipment successfully will be provided a code and then be able to register as monitor.

  NOTE: You must show proof of vaccination when you arrive at class.

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• IN PERSON - Portrait Painting

  • Start
    May 06, 2021
  •  
    (CDT)
  • End
    May 27, 2021
  •  
    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    1601 W. Alabama at Mandell, Houston TX 77006
  • Spaces left
    8

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  IN PERSON - Portrait Painting

  Professor Mohammad Ali Bhatti
  Thursdays,  May 6, 13, 20, 27
  9:30am - 12:30pm
  $180 members/$220 non-members

  This class is designed to learn basic techniques of portrait painting in watercolor medium. Class demos will help you to learn portrait painting skills, techniques, and applying tone values. In many ways, portrait painting is a fun class. It is exciting, full of artistic challenges as well as giving you confidence in working with the loose brush and in understanding light and shade.

  
  

  Click HERE for supply list.

  https://artistmohammadali.com/Save

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• IN PERSON - Cityscape/Landscape Painting

  • Start
    May 15, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    May 16, 2021
  •  
    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    1601 W. Alabama at Mandell, Houston TX 77006
  • Spaces left
    10

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  IN PERSON - Cityscape/Landscape Painting
  

  Professor Mohammad Ali Bhatti
  Saturday & Sunday, May 15 & 16
  9:30am - 3:30pm
  $150 members/$170 non-members

  This class is designed to learn basic techniques of Cityscape/Landscape painting in watercolor medium. Class demoes will help you to understand color value, form, and space such as painting sky, clouds, mountain, water, trees, bushes etc. The focus of the classes will understanding of shapes, perspective, color and composition techniques. Bring good quality photos of landscape or cityscape of your own choice as reference for painting.

  
  

  Click HERE for supply list.

  https://artistmohammadali.com/Save

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• IN PERSON - Water, Water Everywhere: How Do I Paint That?

  • Start
    May 22, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    May 23, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    1601 W. Alabama at Mandell, Houston TX 77006
  • Spaces left
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  IN PERSON - Water, Water Everywhere: How Do I Paint That?

  Les McDonald, Jr.
  Saturday & Sunday,
  May 22 & 23
  9:00am - 4:00pm
  $150 members/$170 non-members

  There are so many ways to approach the subject of painting water in watercolor art, but sometimes, the simplest approaches are the best. 

  Water is almost always moving, changing, always different. It can act as a mirror, reflecting its surroundings back at us, or it can be opaque and impossible to read; it can be calm or whipped up by weather, deep or shallow.

  Water looks lighter and warmer (less blue) as it approaches the shore. Dry brush created broken edges give impression of fluidity.

  Water is transparent; you can see through it and hence see objects in it.

  
  

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• Kim Minichiello Major Workshop Bold & Dynamic WC

  • Start
    October 04, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    October 06, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    1601 West Alabama
  • Spaces left
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  Kim Minichiello Bold and Dynamic Watercolor Workshop 

  October 4-6, 2021

  Go beyond what many consider to be traditional watercolor techniques by using bold color, interesting compositions, and unique subject matter. Kim will show you her approach to designing a painting for a more dynamic composition, and how to get values to read giving your 2-dimensional work more 3-dimensionality. This workshop will also cover the many nuances and differences in papers, types of brushes and pigments. Learn how to mix grays and neutralize colors, as well as the secret to successful watercolor painting, by understanding pigment to water ratios and viscosity.

  In this workshop you will be working on two 12” x 12” paintings,  a yellow bromeliad and the water lilies.  With these works Kim will emphasize the importance of working with color temperature and how she utilizes this property of color in her work. 
  

  Skill level: Beginner to intermediate.
  

  See more of about Kim and her work at www.kimminichiello.com. 

  Supply List:

  WASH Bold Dynamic Supply List.pdf
  

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• Kim Minichiello Major Workshop Textural Effects in WC

  • Start
    October 07, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    October 08, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    1601 West Alabama
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  Kim Minichiello: Achieving Textural Effects In Watercolor Workshop 

  October 7-8, 2021

  As a former Walt Disney Imagineer, working on the design of Disney Theme Parks worldwide, to tell a particular story, Kim had to make the new look old.  She carried that same love of vintage time worn objects telling stories through my artwork.  Join her as she shares her techniques for achieving texture in watercolor. For an oil or acrylic painter, texture can be achieved by applying thick paint in an impasto manner.  In watercolor, texture must be achieved to look three dimensional on a two dimensional surface.  In this workshop we will work on a number of technques to achieve texture in your work and then will paint a rusty, vintage gate.   She’ll share a variety of techniques that she uses in my work to give passages in watercolor interesting variety, as well as, imply texture on worn and aged surfaces.  
  

  See more of about Kim and her work at www.kimminichiello.com. 

  Supply List:

  WASH Texture Workshop Supply List.pdf
  

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