Watercolor Unleashed! Ocean Waves

Watercolor Unleashed! Ocean Waves

Adult Online Art | Available

All Levels

8/6/2024-8/27/2024

1:00 PM-4:00 PM on Tue

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$210.00

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Online on Zoom | 4 Tuesdays | 1pm-4pm Arizona Time (*always on Mountain Standard Time) | Real time class | Recording available for 2 months

Capture a moment in time of the restless, thundering, incessantly rolling waves crashing onto sandy beaches - the atmosphere thick with salty spray and the call of sea birds. Putting all this energy onto a single two-dimensional piece of paper will be our goal!

 

Lessons will focus on:

 

  • Water movement – the “anatomy” of an ocean wave
  • Paint the white of the foamy white wave using rainbow colors
  • “Painterly Realism”, a loose approach – working toward the “mindset” of plein air painting - rather than “copying” a photo
  • Color theory, simplified – using “color as value” (as seen in all three North Light books plus magazine articles) - color mixing
  • Negative painting lessons and exercises for the watercolorist
  • Composition and Drawing

 

A photo will be provided for your use, but you are always welcome and encouraged to paint from your own reference material whenever you wish. You will receive photos and other class materials electronically through e-mail.

 

This Zoom class will be interactive, with demos, instruction, supplementary material and critique. Class time will be structured, yet open enough to accommodate the artistic spirit within us all. All levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. The only prerequisite is an attitude of joy in the act of painting!

Pollard, Julie Gilbert

Julie Gilbert Pollard paints in oil and watercolor in a fluid, painterly manner. Her painting style, while representational, is colored with her own personal concept of reality. "The eye may see as a camera 'sees', but the mind's eye sees an altered, imagined image, what it wants and hopes to see. It's that illusive image uniquely mine, along with a heightened sense of 'realness' that I try to express in my paintings. This world of ours is often a frightening and mysterious place, but it is filled with scenes and subjects that excite my eye and imagination! The magical allure of the natural world, and my reverence for it, compel me to attempt to capture its essense on canvas or paper."