Friday, June 10, 2016

Beginning and Intermediate Homework 6/9/16 Working From Your Figure Sketches

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After 2 1/2 hours of intense concentration, we all ended up with a fair-sized pile of studies, some much better than others, no doubt. All o...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Intermediate Homework 6/2/16 Figure Practice

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Intermediate watercolor homework: Figures, Letting go! Here are a few images that might inspire you to make more general statements in ...

Beginning Homework 6/2/16 Figure Practice

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Here are a couple of images that can get you started seeing the figure as a sequence of layers. Try painting the whole fi...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Intermediate Watercolor 5/26/16 What color are the Darks?

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  What color are the darks? Socks                                                           Mary Whyte               The colors ...

Beginning Watercolor 5/26/16 Designing the Page

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When you begin getting to know a new subject, whether it's a plain air scene or a photo, there is always the possibility that some aspec...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Beginning Watercolor Homework, 5/19/16 Layers, Step By Step

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To extend our classwork into the realm of understanding a painting subject as a series of layers, I'd like everyone to make a demonstrat...

Intermediate Homework, 5/19/2016 Separating the major Shapes

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I usually define the major shapes in a realist painting as those that need to be separated in order to comprehend the illusion of space. Of ...