Easy Landscapes

Easy Landscapes

Thursday Morningss

May 7, 14, 21, 28

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

$220 Tuition/$180 members

With a minimum of drawing, landscapes will be explored with attention to atmospheric perspective, color harmony, value, and texture.

This is a guided class — but individual expression is celebrated!

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST:

1.  The best paper you can afford (hopefully 100% cotton!!!) — minimum size 9x12”.

2.  Masking tape and boards (if not working on a block.) …We will be completing two paintings each day. (Necessary: two different paper set-ups, as we will be working on pieces simultaneously.)

3. Palette with large flat mixing surface -- old, white dinner plate works well too.

4.  Mid-sized (#6-8) cheap, STIFF fan brush

5.  Old toothbrush

6.  Winsor & Newton Designer's Gouache, Permanent White

7.  Masking tape

8.  Exacto knife.

9.  A couple of craggy NATURAL sea sponges

10.  An artist notebook (or the back of old paintings) for exercises.  (Cotton not necessary for this item.)

Nan Wright’s work is shaped by a lifelong habit of close looking. Her creative path began as a globe-trotting photographer, documenting everyday life across Asia, Europe, North Africa, and South America. That experience continues to inform her watercolor paintings, where light, texture, composition, and small visual surprises remain central concerns.

Today, Nan works in watercolor, trading pixels for pigments while maintaining the same observational discipline developed behind the camera. She is drawn to moments that feel familiar yet slightly unexpected—places where structure meets looseness, and clarity gives way to atmosphere. Her approach balances control and spontaneity, allowing the medium’s inherent unpredictability to play an active role in the final image.

Nan’s paintings have been featured annually on the Winter Park Art Trail and in Plein Air @ Altitude in Winter Park, Colorado, since their 2021 beginnings. She has also exhibited in Galveston, Steamboat, Avon, Breckenridge, and with Arts for Rural Texas in Fayetteville, and has received six invitations to the prestigious Bayou City Art Festival in Houston.  Nan was a recipient of the 2025 artist residence for "Westbound Art" on the California Zypher train.

In addition to exhibiting her work, Nan teaches watercolor classes at the 600-member Watercolor Art Society of Houston, where she also volunteers her time.

She is a member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Watercolor Art Society–Houston, Outdoor Painters Society, Women in the Visual and Literary Arts, Women in Watercolor, and Fraser Valley Arts.