Breaking New Ground with Watercolor
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBA
Jan 11-Feb 15, 2010
Meets 6:30 PM-9:30 PM
on Mon
Tuition: $270.00
Material Fee: $20.00
Level: INT
Status: This program has been canceled
During this six-week session, we’ll explore two exciting, non-traditional watercolor techniques:
1. Watercolor on colored paper (2 weeks): Working with your own watercolor pigments, sometimes blending them with opaque white for light values atop mid-value papers, you’ll learn a refreshing new approach to watercolor, while gaining new insights into ways of unifying a composition, and developing new approaches to form, value, and color.
2. Oriental Watercolor Techniques (4 weeks): Break loose from the planning and control which characterize traditional watercolor! Your introduction to Oriental watercolor will bring you (as it has to me) astonishing creative release. You’ll revel in form and color with much less regard to literal, preconceived imagery. I promise you an emotional, rather than intellectual approach to the medium, while still offering representational fulfillment to the degree you desire.
Materials particular to these techniques will be furnished by the instructor.
Instructor -- Lewis B. Lehrman
Lew Lehrman graduated from the Graphic Arts program at Carnegie Institute of Technology, studied at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, then spent three decades in commercial art and illustration before becoming a professional watercolorist in 1984. He has been an instructor in watercolor (here and elsewhere) since 1991. He is also well known for his six books, published by North Light and by International Artist Books. He served as Founding North American Editor of International Artist Magazine.