WATERCOLOR UNLEASHED! Paint a Waterfall with Wildflowers
Adult Online Art | Available
Online on Zoom | 5 Tuesdays | 1pm-4pm Arizona Time (always on Mountain Standard Time) | recording available for 2 months
September 2, 9, 16, 23,30, 2025
Learn to paint water that looks wet, reflective, and splashy. With a stunning waterfall as your model, paint water as it cascades, then splashes around and over the rocky streambed, with – of course – wildflowers getting in on the act! Techniques will be demonstrated to address the various puzzles with which the artist is faced when painting this stunning, fascinating and challenging subject!
- Basic “anatomy” of a waterfall…
- Learn to paint rocks that look solid and hard…
- Paint splashy wildflowers growing along the stream…
- The painting process – keeping it manageable…
- Watercolor methods and techniques that apply to the subject-matter…
- Negative painting lessons for watercolor…
- Creative use of color – color mixing - painting with green - “using color as value” (as seen in her North Light Books and Videos)…
- Aiming for a plein air “feel” and sensitivity in your painting when working from photos …
There will be demos, instruction at all levels, critique and lots of painting time. 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!
Julie Gilbert Pollard
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."