Water in the Landscape
Painting the Nature of Water: waterfalls, tumbling water, waves crashing into rocks.
July 20-23, 10:30 am to 4:30 pm
Location: Paint spot: Artelier is located at 10045 81 Avenue NW, Edmonton (back alley entrance). The workshop space is one block south of The Paint Spot.
$395 ($315 + $80 Supply fee)
Registration through the Paint Spot
Water is one of my favourite subjects to paint, the way it flows down a river, tumbling into rocks as it burbles along. How a still lake can act as a mirror for the nature around it, reflecting light and colour in stunning majesty. Water is always changing, and it is this impermanence that makes it so fascinating to paint.
Learn how to paint the nature of water. I will teach you how to capture its movement as it tumbles and crashes around rocks. To paint the light that reflects off of water in an array colours creating distorted images in its soft waves. To illustrate how the surrounding nature can affect the ebbs and flows of a section of water.
In this Four-day workshop, each morning, we will work on studies with an aspect of painting the movement of water. In the afternoon, we will apply what we learned to a full landscape working on your own projects.
We will cover:
- The use of masking in the waterfall, and water movement
- Painting the rocks under the surface of the water
- Capture the luminescence of a wave that is crashing
- Painting the reflected lights and color on the water surface
I will be teaching with demos in the morning and coaching you on your projects in the afternoon. You are welcome to follow along with the demos or work from your own reference photos.
Techniques in watercolor we will touch on:
- Planning a painting
- masking
- layering
- color mixing the shades in water
- sponging
- spritzing water
- scraping
- cling wrap
- wet into wet
- wet on dry
- pushing and pulling
