Whidbey Island 2nd Workshop (Open)

A second workshop has been added to learn the joys of capturing the moment, color and mood of  Whidbey Island.  This workshop will cover the basic watercolor techniques that can speed up your process, loosen you up, and increase your success in capturing outdoor scenes.

 
There will be daily skill building exercises focusing on controlling moisture in the your paper, mixtures in your brush,  and application timing to get the watercolor effects you want. Geoff will review the difference in brushes, color palettes and show students how to let water do the work for them.  There will be daily demonstrations, one day in the classroom and two in plein air taking inspirational scenes through a process of simplification while enhancing design dynamics, expression and creating atmosphere.  It all starts with practicing watercolor’s quartet of skills; values, major shapes, visual dynamics, and calligraphy.  

Geoff will be following up individually with students to reinforce concepts and skills such as judging values, separating light and shadow, “one-go”mark making, and softening edges in order to get an impressionistic expressive watercolor painting.