CLASSES:
Don't see the class you'd like to take scheduled here? Contact me - we can come up with something!
Watercolor Workshop - Foundations/Loosen Up!
Why are people afraid of watercolor? This is a workshop to help you relax and learn to love the medium. Using a wet-on-wet approach, we’ll demolish the old tropes – yes, you CAN change things, no, “mud” does NOT have to be the usual result of color mixing, controlling the “uncontrollable” IS possible, and MORE!
We focus on working with water, learning how to mix colors, understanding paper, and using the strengths (and weaknesses) of the medium to your advantage.
Within these hours (including a ½ hour for lunch), we’ll work lots of wet paint along with using many different surfaces and methods.
This is a workshop that focuses on new techniques, learning to control the uncontrollable, and having a blast with this amazing medium. It is a great workshop for beginners as well as those who are looking to shake up their practice.
Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Saturday, May 3rd, 10am-3pm, 307 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA
Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Sunday, June 22nd, 1-5pm, 24 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plains, MA
TWO DAY WORKSHOP! Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Saturday AND Sunday, June 26th and 27th, 10am-3pm, Provincetown, MA
Breaking the Rules with Sarah and Lisa
Come play and break “The Rules”, a single day workshop with Sarah Kahn, acrylic collage artist, and Lisa Goren, watercolorist.
“Watercolor should not be combined with acrylics.” This is what we know to be true. Right?
Not! This class is for artists and creatives who are feeling stuck, who wonder about combining differing mediums, and who enjoy and value experimenting and exploring in less academic, rule-abiding ways. Lisa and Sarah will take you through inspiring demonstrations, and allow you time to experiment with watercolor and with acrylics in ways you would not have imagined. By learning from two experienced artists, you will come away with a broadened sense of both mediums, and feel equipped with unusual and exciting techniques for continuing on your journeys in your studio and beyond. COME PLAY!
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Thursday, June 19th, 10am-3pm, Provincetown, MA
Watercolor Workshop - Paint a Landscape/Seascape
Focus in this class will be creating a landscape or seascape during the session from your own photos (or ones provided)
It is helpful to have taken my Wet-on-Wet workshop before this course but it isn’t required.
This will be scheduled again in the new year - contact me if you're interested.
Deep Dive - Painting Water
Watercolors offer an exciting and unique way to connect with this molecule that makes up most of our planet. But painting it – ugh! This 4 hr. workshop will include several exercises that will help you see different ways to approach this wonderful subject. The first half of the class will focus on these unique exercises after which we’ll take a ½ hour lunch.
The second half will focus on creating a painting with water as an integral part of the piece. While I’ll have some suggestions for that painting, you’re also welcome to bring a subject you’d like to paint so that you can get started on a painting you’d like to do.
We’ll work very wet (it’s water after all!) and these exercises may blow your mind – we’ll change the mindset that water is the most difficult subject!
It is helpful to have taken my Foundations workshop before this course but it isn’t required.
This will be scheduled again in the new year- contact me if you're interested.
Marketing for Artists With Jennifer Okumura
'Marketing and Social Media as part of your creative Arsenal'
Next scheduled workshop: VIRTUAL Soon to be scheduled again!
The first hour will be about getting your “marketing house” in order with Lisa, and the second hour will be social media with Jennifer.
$75 RSVP president.nawama@gmail.com
NEW - GO BIG!
Working LARGE in watercolor is a challenge. How do you keep the paper flat? Where do you start? Waiting for paint to dry! What if you “mess up”?
Each student will bring their own project that they want to work on. I will be in touch with everyone before the workshop begins to make sure that you’re prepared. And each student will work on either a full sheet of paper (22” x 30”) or a full square (22” x 22”). (There will be an opportunity to purchase paper through the class if you don’t have any.)
Throughout the 5 hour workshop (with ½ hour for lunch), we’ll stop at points to go over specific strategies using lifting, advance planning with water and paint, and more.
You may not have a finished piece or you may have more than one. This is a workshop to help you GO BIG in watercolor.
This will be scheduled again in the new year - contact me if you're interested.
