APRIL 4 - 7: WATERCOLOR TRAVEL JOURNALING
The Alabama Folk School at Camp McDowell, Nauvoo, AL, 1-205-387-1806 /
For the traveler, landscape painter, gardener -- anyone who wants to record what they see and experience in a personal watercolor journal. You’ll learn 6 skills: simplify your subjects, render them quickly in pencil, enhance your drawings with ink, add color with watercolor washes, design your sketchbook pages, and incorporate words into each page’s design. We will work from real life and your photographs. Activities will include demonstrations, in-class exercises and outdoor excursion, circumstances permitting. Some drawing experience helpful; all levels welcome.
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- MAY 6-8: ADVANCED WATERCOLOR JOURNALING
Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA 1-770-394-3447 / www.spruillarts.org
This is an advanced class for the traveler, landscape painter, gardener -- anyone
who wants to record what they see and experience in a personal watercolor
journal. Learn to sketch three popular subjects: buildings/city scenes, trees/
landscape, and people. Topics will include perspective and color mixing as well as advanced sketching and watercolor techniques. We will work from real life and your photographs. Activities will include demonstrations, in-class exercises
and outdoor excursions, circumstances permitting. Students must have prior
experience in drawing and watercolor or have taken a class in watercolor
journaling/sketching.
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- JUNE 1-3: ADVANCED WATERCOLOR TRAVEL JOURNALING: LANDSCAPE
The Bascom Art Center, Highlands, NC 1-828-526-4949 / www.thebascom.org
This is an advanced class for travelers and painters who like to record what they
see and experience in a personal watercolor journal. We will focus on landscape, with an emphasis on sketching and painting skies, water and land forms such as fields, woods and gardens. Topics will include color mixing, color harmony and composition. We will work from real life and your photographs. Activites will include demonstrations, in-class exercises and outdoor excursions, circumstances permitting. Students must have prior experience in drawing and watercolor or have taken a class in watercolor journaling/sketching.
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JUNE 4: SAMPLER: WATERCOLOR FOR BEGINNERS
The Bascom Art Center, Highlands, NC 1-828-526-4949 / www.thebascom.org
Get acquainted with watercolor. Learn about brushes, paints and papers in an introductory class. Learn basic fun techniques to create small paintings of everyday objects in lively colors! Marilyn, whose specialty is watercolor journaling, will also show students possible uses of watercolor beyond the basics learned in this sampler class.
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- JULY 3 - 8: THE ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL IN INK & WATERCOLOR
For the traveler, landscape painter, gardener -- anyone who wants to record what
they see and experience in a personal watercolor journal. Youʼll learn 6 skills:
simplify your subjects, render them quickly in pencil, enhance your drawings with
ink, add color with watercolor washes, design your sketchbook pages, and
incorporate words into each pageʼs design. We will work from real life and your
photographs. Activities will include demonstrations, in-class exercises and
outdoor excursion, circumstances permitting. Some drawing experience helpful;
all levels welcome.
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- JULY 16 - 17: SKETCHING NATURE IN WATERCOLOR - AT GRATIOT LAKE
For the nature lover, landscape painter, gardener -- anyone who wants to record what they see and experience outdoors in a watercolor sketchbook. You’ll learn how to simplify subjects, render them quickly in pencil, enhance your drawings with ink and watercolor, and add words to your pages. We will work from real life and photographs. Activities will include demonstrations, drawing and watercolor lessons, and outdoor sketching (weather permitting, of course). Some drawing experience helpful; all levels welcome. Bring a sack lunch each day.
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OCTOBER 2 - 8: TREES: IDENTIFYING AND SKETCHING THEM IN AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC, 1-800-365-5724 /www.folkschool.org
Haven't you always wanted to know the names of trees? Join a Master Gardener and an artist as we take you around campus to identify, sketch and make notes on some of the more than 50 species of trees in their autumn glory. You'll learn how to recognize trees; how to sketch leaves, seeds, bark, nuts and the trees themselves; how to enhance your sketches with ink and watercolor; and how to make field notes and start your tree "life list," all in a personal journal. Course will include indoor lessons, demonstrations and outdoor excursions involving easy walking on Folk School trails. All levels welcome.
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