Description
Saturday and Sunday, November 14 & 15
9 am – 4 pm
This 2 Day Workshop is for watercolor — all levels.
Lunch: Please pack a lunch to eat during a short lunch break. A convenient place to pick up a bag lunch in the morning before the workshop is Cape Cod Bagel on Palmer Avenue, just about two miles from Falmouth Art Center.
There seems to be a never-endinq quest to loosen up in watercolor and it’s probably the most common goal of students. It’s easy to fall into the trap of putting too much into your paintings, and editing out the non-essential whether working from photo reference or painting on location is vital. As I tell my students, what you leave out of a painting is as important as what you put in.
Painting loosely doesn’t just ‘happen’, it comes from gaining a comfort level with your skills and materials over time. However, there are techniques that can speed up this process.
My workshop will focus on using value studies from the outset to identify the large shapes in a scene. These large shapes provide the artist with opportunities for lost edges when painting in watercolor, which is essential if we are to take full advantage of the medium. Too often the ‘found edges’, or details, take over the painter’s thinking process, and the result is a tight watercolor.
We will move on toward color paintings using value studies as our guide, and complete color painting lessons together. Demonstration paintings will be done by Andy to reinforce the lessons.
In order to loosen up it is imperative to have a clear vision of what you want to accomplish with your painting and then execute it quickly. This class will give you the tools and confidence to do just that.
Falmouth Art Center uses email to correspond with students for updates on scheduling, etc. Please check your email to be sure you do not miss any updates.
Refund Policy:
Refunds will not be given within one week of the start of a class and one month before the start of a workshop. Classes are not pro-rated, and there are no makeups for missed classes. A $25 processing fee is withheld from all refunds.
The Art Center reserves the right to cancel any class or workshop due to insufficient enrollment, in which case tuition will be fully refunded.
Andy Evansen’s love and aptitude for art goes back to early childhood, and he decided to make a career using the gifts he was given. He began his professional career as a medical illustrator, but that industry soon became reliant on computer graphics, and he realized he missed working with pencils, brushes and paper. Once he began painting, watercolor was an easy choice as his preferred medium, and he found himself attempting to capture the landscape with an economy of brushstroke evident in the work of the British watercolor artists he admired. In addition, he was impressed with the way those artists seemed to capture everyday scenes in such a way that revealed a hidden beauty, subjects that many would simply pass by. A lifelong resident of the American Midwest, this appealed to him a great deal.
