Theodore Wirth Park's Quaking Bog, October 2023
Upcoming Watercolor Classes: Focus on Nature
Inspired by Fall in Minnesota. We can paint everything from the colors in a single leaf to a landscape of blaze orange maple trees against a blue sky. Through demos, critiques, and painting sessions in class, we'll cover color mixing, and how to see and use value changes to strengthen your paintings.
Classes will be Tuesdays, October 29-December 3 from 9:30am to 12:30pm
Registration now open.
Minnetonka Center for the Arts
Past Workshops
Watercolor for Beginners - Everwood Farm, August 2022
I was thrilled to be back at Everwood teaching this one day workshop. Working in the barn with the doors wide open, a gentle breeze, and fifteen eager painters, many who had never painted before. Which was hard to believe by the end of day. What a great group. I tried out my idea of painting a landscape without drawing. Inspired by this short video of artist Lena Gemzoe painting.
A Valentines Day event, orchestrated by Matt Swenson, creator of the Minnesota Art Truck. 2 hour painting workshop at Burning Brothers Brewing with access to the Mn Art Truck for Valentine's Day shopping.
Watercolor workshop
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Workshop limited to 16 attendees
Cost: $35 per person + 1 beer and all materials included: Paint, Palette, Brushes, Cold Press Art Paper, Tape, Pencil
During the two-hour workshop I demonstrated my approach to watercolor landscape painting, using my "Belle Plaine Barn Scape" as an example.
Overview of materials
Introduction to three basic watercolor techniques: Gradated wash, Wet on wet, and Dry-brush
Using these techniques, students created their own landscape painting.
This 9-day plein air workshop in Tuscany was hosted by AncoraItalia Tours, just outside Lucca, in Italy.
We painted in many different locations including; Florence, Pisa, Siena, San Gimignano, Cinque Terre and Castello Verrazzano, a wine estate and medieval castle.
In the evenings we gathered at our home base, Mulino, a beautifully renovated 12th century olive mill in the hills above Lucca. Reviewing our work and adding finishing touches to our paintings.
Beginning Watercolor class at Everwood Farmstead in Wisconsin. During this day long workshop we explored the basics of painting with watercolor through storytelling, demonstration and hands on exercises. Some of the topics we covered:
Introduction to the right materials:
Why using cheap paper doesn’t work
Value of good brushes and good paint
Basics of color
Using your sketchbook
Importance of the right attitude:
Silencing your inner critic
Painting with confidence
Tips on teaching yourself