classes

Bookmarks for Ogunquitangle

I’m attending Ogunquitangle in ME this year, organized by the wonderful Jenny Perruzzi over at Your Creative Spirit. Each attendee is asked to bring a little something that can be shared with every other attendee. Something small and inexpensive. A tool you use often, or a bit of craft or art from yourself. I’ve decided to bring along magnetic bookmarks! I love these little things because they are so small, so easy, and SOOO useful. I use them in my for-fun reading books,…

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Landscape studies

I did a couple quick studies from the photos I posted the other day. They’re a bit sketchy, but you can get an idea of the sort of work we’ll be trying to do on Saturday. Here’s to hoping for sun! =) I’m still working on painting a mural on our hallway’s wall. I’ll post a picture of that as soon as I can – it’s sort of hard to photograph. There are no good angles. I may have to…

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Watercoloring Outside on Saturday

Here’s some info on a class I’m teaching this Saturday over at wingdoodle! (Weather report says sun!) Outdoors Watercolor Bring your paints, brushes and paper to the outdoors. We’re going down to the covered bridge, and maybe the park, to capture some real autumn colors. There’s nothing like painting outside, but bring a light jacket in case fall has already gotten chilly! I’ll be teaching more color mixing and brush manipulation while we’re out there. Date: Saturday, October 1st, 12-3pm…

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More classes!

I had a couple more classes since the last post. I taught a Intro to Drawing course last Tuesday, and a Colored Pencil Workshop today. I still have some problems keeping the right pace in the class but today’s class was phenomenal! We actually ran out of time! =) We got through drawing an apple though and I just had to share this one with you guys: As you can see Sandra’s apple ended up not being an apple, but…

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Watercolor Samples

During my watercolor class and afterwards I had to make a lot of example cards to show techniques. Here are some of them together in case anyone wanted to see them. =) I’m happy with how the packaging material ones came out. I was pleasantly surprised at the watery look of the flat plastic packing sheets (top left). I have another class today – drawing this time! – and I am feeling less than prepared. I still need to find…

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Watercolor Class

Watercolor Class went spectacular! It was short of perfect but it was my first class after all. I’ve planned a lot more classes from now til October and I hope a lot of people sign up. I’m especially excited for “Outdoors Watercolor” were I’ll take people out of the store and down to our covered bridge and maybe the park for a while too. It’ll be a real lesson in taking your paints to-go and painting what you see. It’ll be…

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Watercolor Class!

I’m teaching a class! Beginner’s Watercolor to be exact, here’s the class info: “This Saturday is a watercolor class for those of us who want to just get started with painting. I will be teaching some basic watercolor techniques including washes, graded washes, splatter, salt and even scraping the paint! Once  we have those down we’ll get painting! I have a lot more techniques up my sleeve I can teach you guys so I can’t wait to get started. The…

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