Reflect and Refine

Katherine Rodgers

Six-Week Class

Aug 11, 18, 25, Sept 1, 8, 15

6 pm - 9 pm, Tuesday Evenings

Tuition $390 Regular / $325 Members

Take time to reflect on your artwork and analyze the feedback you receive from the instructor and peers.  This course will help you identify strengths and weaknesses in your paintings, and use this information to refine your technique and style. Continually challenging yourself to grow as an artist, this class aims to introduce students to the principles of composition and provide them with the necessary skills to analyze and critique artwork effectively. 

Through practical exercises, demos, and discussions, students will develop a critical eye to evaluate and provide constructive feedback on artwork. Class begins with a group critique setting on what the student is currently working on.  The class will then move to simple exercises as a warm- up. Experimenting and trying new things is key to progression in your process and style development as an artist  – it's an essential part of the creative process!

Please email the instructor: Katherinerodgersfineart@gmail.com with any questions.  Please bring your watercolor supplies or use this list as a guide.

Safety Alert: Individuals attending this activity should be aware that they require the ability to safely descend stairs in an emergency.

Introduction to Watercolor

Katherine Rodgers

Six-Week Class

Aug 12, 19, 26, Sept 2, 9, 16

6 pm - 9 pm, Wednesday evenings

Tuition $390 Regular / $325

Members

Starting at the very beginning, this introduction to watercolor course will go over brushes, paper types, the use of water, negative space, glazing, types of washes, composition strategies, color mixing, and more. Using a limited palette, learn the basics of watercolor painting and develop your own personal painting style in a small group setting. Katherine will teach you shadows, form, and the principles of art.

Supply list

Safety Alert: Individuals attending this activity should be aware that they require the ability to safely descend stairs in an emergency.

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Find Your Path

Carla Gauthier

Four-Week Class

August 20, 27 & September 10, 17

9 am - 12 pm, Thursday MORNINGS

Tuition Non-Members $260 /

$220 Members

Do you want to push your painting, define your style, and create a body of work that is cohesive and personal? This will be a student-driven class, with more of a coaching/critique vibe, helping each artist work towards a simple goal – to find their “path” whether it be realistic or abstract, portraits, landscapes, still-life based….. whatever it is that inspires you. This class is not a “how-to” class. We will discuss concepts, artistic principles, techniques, color schemes that will help each artist regardless of their style and subject and often paint together to learn a new technique. Ideally, we become a consistent group, whose input is varied and meaningful. The idea is that you will focus on a subject and approach to carry your ideas forward in a connected way. Work outside class is essential.

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Supply List: 

Please bring regular watercolor supplies, palette, brushes, paper, paper towels, pencil, eraser, sponges, water sprayer etc.

Be prepared to paint outside of class, so that we can critique during class time and keep your painting goals on track.

Safety Alert: Individuals attending this activity should be aware that they require the ability to safely descend stairs in an emergency.

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Find Your Path

Carla Gauthier

Four-Week Class

August 20, 27 and September 10, 17

1 pm - 4 pm, Thursday AFTERNOONS

Tuition Non-Members $260 / $220 Members

Do you want to push your painting, define your style, and create a body of work that is cohesive and personal? This will be a student-driven class, with more of a coaching/critique vibe, helping each artist work towards a simple goal – to find their “path” whether it be realistic or abstract, portraits, landscapes, still-life based….. whatever it is that inspires you. This class is not a “how-to” class. We will discuss concepts, artistic principles, techniques, color schemes that will help each artist regardless of their style and subject and often paint together to learn a new technique. Ideally, we become a consistent group, whose input is varied and meaningful. The idea is that you will focus on a subject and approach to carry your ideas forward in a connected way. Work outside class is essential.

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Supply List: 

Please bring regular watercolor supplies, palette, brushes, paper, paper towels, pencil, eraser, sponges, water sprayer etc.

Be prepared to paint outside of class, so that we can critique during class time and keep your painting goals on track.

Safety Alert: Individuals attending this activity should be aware that they require the ability to safely descend stairs in an emergency.

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General Meeting and Demo

"Just Say Yes to Yupo"

Sunday, September 6, 2026

2 pm - 3:30 pm 

Demo Artist: Fontaine Jacobs

Join Fontaine Jacobs as she shares her passion for painting on Yupo!

Fontaine Jacobs is a self-taught artist who has shown in galleries and won awards for both her commercial and fine art throughout the United States. Her most famous commission was of Octavia Spencer from The Help. She was honored to present the painting and meet the actor at a Cancer Fundraiser in Memphis, Tennessee.

Fontaine is a Signature Member of WAS-H, who is working diligently to achieve her Elite Signature status. She has been accepted into IWE, where she has been selected for Fall Foliage, Blue-Faced Iguana, Iguazu Falls, and The King.

Fontaine paints portraits, landscapes, animals, and abstracts. She strives to merge impressionism with realism to capture an image or go completely abstract. From time to time, she gives instruction in watercolor. Visit http://www.fontainefineart.com to see additional works.

This registration is for both In-Person attendance and Live-Stream.

To receive an email with the link on or before the morning of the event, you must complete this online registration.

Safety Alert:  Individuals attending this activity in person should be aware that they require the ability to safely descend stairs in an emergency.

September Show Opening

Sunday, September 6

3:30 - 5 pm

WAS- H Gallery, 1601 Alabama Street Houston

Theme:

   

Join us for the free monthly Gallery show.

Experience art, wine and bites, and community!

Gallery Hours are:

Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 3 pm

   If you have any questions, call WAS-H at (713) 942-9966 or

   email gallerydirector@watercolorhouston.org or

   admin@watercolorhouston.org.

Plein Air for Members

Alla Adams, Coordinator

Monday, Labor Day, September 7

11 am - 3 pm

Glenwood Cemetery

2525 Washington Ave., Houston, TX 77007

Our Motto:  Progress over Perfection

This Plein Air event will focus on a sculpture in an outdoor setting

Additional information is emailed to those who register.

Join us for an inspiring day of art and creativity at Glenwood Cemetery, located at Washington Avenue overlooking Buffalo Bayou. Its iconic design was based on principles of garden cemeteries.  

This Plein Air event will focus on painting a sculpture in an outdoor setting.

Click here to see the supply list for watercolor painting in Plein Air

Below are some helpful YouTube video demos to practice at home before going to this event on location. With YouTube videos, I usually first watch the entire demo to see the result and make notes of important points. Then, I start the video again and paint along. I like the convenience of YouTube demos that can be paused, and so I can paint and learn at my pace.

I hope you enjoy practicing in advance and are excited about our topic – painting an open-air artwork in Plein Air!

Watercolor Glazing Technique by Liron Yanconsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1CZSbWk1fTQ&t=0s

Watercolor Painting Tips and Techniques: Sculpture by Achintya Hazra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=C_6XAzmFSik&t=0s

How to Paint a Statute Bust in Watercolor by Paint Basket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHkOmSZRK-8

Expressive Watercolor painting Tutorial: Stone Sculpture by Gee Massam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ZDFAANLRM0c&t=0m23s

Getting the Right Contrast in Watercolor: Angel Statue by Liron Yanconsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74C8A1Ya29s

Monthly Member Workshop

Painting Roulette!

with 

Susan Giannantonio

Create an Experimental,

Non-Objective Mixed Media Painting by Using Prompts

Saturday, September 12

9:30 am - 3:00 pm

Basic Members: $50

Premium Members: $35

Gold Members:  $25

Student Members:  $25

Ready to loosen up and let chance inspire your creativity? Painting Roulette! is an experimental, non-objective mixed-media experience where prompts guide you through the process of creating a painting without worrying about the end result. You’ll layer, scrape, stamp, draw, collage, and play with color and texture using acrylics and a variety of tools and materials.

Bring at least two surfaces to experiment with—paper, board, or canvas—and whatever paints, brushes, markers, and collage materials you have on hand. Try gesso on one surface and leave another unprimed to see how each responds. Come ready to experiment, take some creative risks, and have fun discovering where the process takes you!

Supplies are all optional. Bring what you have.

Supports:  

Work as large as you are comfortable. Paper, canvas, any preferred support. It is fun to do a large painting! I suggest at least 16 x 20” paper, board or canvas.  12 x 12” would work. Bring at least 2 substrates.  You might want to experiment by applying gesso to 1 and leaving the other one plain.  Each has its own properties and you may discover you prefer one over the other.

Paints:

Demo will be primarily acrylics. You may bring any of the following: fluid, ink, heavy body and/or even craft paint

A few colors, perhaps 1 or 2 triads (red, blue, yellow) plus black and white. Demo will use gesso for white.  If you want to bring more, you are welcome to do so. Even metallics are a fun embellishment.

Painting tools:

A variety of brushes. Challenge yourself to go big with brushes that are appropriately large enough to fit your substrate. Chip brushes, liner, mop. The important thing is a variety but you only need perhaps 3 or 4.

Credit card, catalyst wedge or putty knife for spreading

Any other unusual paint applicator: stamp, scraper, palette knife, fine line applicator, makeup brush

Markers of any kind: Caran d’ache, Inktense pencils, posca or other acrylic markers

Misc tools:

Small quantity of any ephemera: newspaper, music manuscript, magazine, handwritten notes/letters

Gel or matte medium or PVA glue

1 to 2” Chip brush for gluing

Out of Our Comfort Zone:

Still Life / Round Robin (Rescheduled)

Monday, September 14

1 pm - 4 pm

Moderators: Cheryl Evans and Susan Giannantonio

Members $20, Non-Members $25

Bring one item to contribute to a still life. Interesting shapes or patterns might add visual interest. We will focus on drawing one item’s "portrait" at a time (see video). Make a mark, move on. 

Once we’ve done object “portraits”, a collaborative still life will be set up with all objects in the middle of the room. Participants will enjoy drawing/painting for the rest of the session.

Supplies: 

Potentially 24 sheets of any size drawing paper (could even be printer paper or craft paper) to do a drawing of everyone’s object.

Whatever substrate you wish to use for the large still life setup.

Drawing tools, colored or black (optional).

Painting materials, artist’s choice.

This creative encounter is designed to meet the needs of the intermediate and advanced artists wanting to elevate their work to the next level by meeting monthly to explore a specific art challenge or subject. 

The challenge will be presented by the moderators, but NO FORMAL INSTRUCTION will be provided, and ALL artist fees will go directly to WAS-H.

This is an “a-la-carte” event and each month participants must register and pay for the session on the WAS-H web site to reserve a space in the Out of Your Comfort Zone Encounter.

Creativity, growth, and pushing the boundaries will be celebrated!

Safety Alert: Individuals attending this activity should be aware that they require the ability to safely descend stairs in an emergency.