Women of Watercolor:
CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS 2021
WOW will offer 4 types of educational opportunities during the summer of 2021:
All county health protocols will be followed, including masks, current coronavirus vaccine and social distancing if applicable.
Registration forms will be emailed out to members 2-4 weeks prior to class.
2021 Summer Class Registration Form
All county health protocols will be followed, including masks, current coronavirus vaccine and social distancing if applicable.
- An Urban Sketch Crawl on Thursday June 24, 9 am - 1 pm
- A basics class for newer painters on Tuesday July 6, 9am-3:30 pm
- Two 2 1/2-day workshop intensives with Colorado Watercolorist, Steven Griggs, July 19,20,21
and July 26,27,28, 9 am – noon. - 3 half day Mini-Classes: August 19, 26 and September 2
Registration forms will be emailed out to members 2-4 weeks prior to class.
2021 Summer Class Registration Form
Painting at Alpine Gardens July 2019.
2021 SUMMER BASICS CLASS
Workshop: Watercolor Basics
Date: July 6, 2021
Time: 9 am - 3:30 pm (bring a sack lunch)
A part two will be added again this year depending on interest.
Instructor: Jerre Smith
Location: Private home
Cost: $30 per WOW member, $55 non-members. If a non- member wishes to join WOW, the additional $25 will go toward membership through 2021.
About this class:
Goals of the course would be to:
• provide beginner watercolorists with basic information that will speed up their learning curve and set them up for success.
• provide a review of watercolor basics for painters who would like to revisit them.
Topics to be covered will include:
• WC supplies - papers, brushes, paints, brands and where you can buy them
• setting up your workspace
• knowing the characteristics of your pigments
• mixing colors from a limited palette - 3 different ways!
• brush strokes
• composition - value sketches, color schemes
• the importance of variation- lights and darks, warms and cools, and hard and soft edges, size and distance between objects
• exploring watercolor techniques -glazing, wet in wet, softening edges, lifting, masking, scraping, salt, brush work, washes
Supplies: NOTE, the club will provide a small kit to those who are new to watercolor and have never taken this class. It will include one #12 brush, one sheet of Arches wc paper, a small palette and some paint. Students who are not new to wc should bring their own brushes, paint and paper, as listed below.
Brushes-1 round watercolor brush, size 12 (I recommend Cornell 7020 Ultra Round, from Jerrysartrama)
1 round watercolor brush, size 4 or 6
1 flat wash brush, 1.5” or 2” wide, or larger
Paints - Please bring ARTIST Grade paints (like Winsor Newton or DaVinci )
Alizarin Crimson or quinacridone red
Gamboge or Aureolin (yellows)
Ultramarine Blue or Phthalo Blue
Paper – One full sheet (22 x 30”) of Arches 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper
Additional materials: Reference photos to paint from, a pencil, white or kneaded eraser, clipboard, ruler and small note pad, a pallet if you have one
Supply sources: Online catalogs like- Cheap Joe’s, Blick, Jerrysartarama.com, and sometimes Amazon. Retail stores: Meiningers, Michaels, Hobby Lobby
Workshop: Watercolor Basics
Date: July 6, 2021
Time: 9 am - 3:30 pm (bring a sack lunch)
A part two will be added again this year depending on interest.
Instructor: Jerre Smith
Location: Private home
Cost: $30 per WOW member, $55 non-members. If a non- member wishes to join WOW, the additional $25 will go toward membership through 2021.
About this class:
Goals of the course would be to:
• provide beginner watercolorists with basic information that will speed up their learning curve and set them up for success.
• provide a review of watercolor basics for painters who would like to revisit them.
Topics to be covered will include:
• WC supplies - papers, brushes, paints, brands and where you can buy them
• setting up your workspace
• knowing the characteristics of your pigments
• mixing colors from a limited palette - 3 different ways!
• brush strokes
• composition - value sketches, color schemes
• the importance of variation- lights and darks, warms and cools, and hard and soft edges, size and distance between objects
• exploring watercolor techniques -glazing, wet in wet, softening edges, lifting, masking, scraping, salt, brush work, washes
Supplies: NOTE, the club will provide a small kit to those who are new to watercolor and have never taken this class. It will include one #12 brush, one sheet of Arches wc paper, a small palette and some paint. Students who are not new to wc should bring their own brushes, paint and paper, as listed below.
Brushes-1 round watercolor brush, size 12 (I recommend Cornell 7020 Ultra Round, from Jerrysartrama)
1 round watercolor brush, size 4 or 6
1 flat wash brush, 1.5” or 2” wide, or larger
Paints - Please bring ARTIST Grade paints (like Winsor Newton or DaVinci )
Alizarin Crimson or quinacridone red
Gamboge or Aureolin (yellows)
Ultramarine Blue or Phthalo Blue
Paper – One full sheet (22 x 30”) of Arches 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper
Additional materials: Reference photos to paint from, a pencil, white or kneaded eraser, clipboard, ruler and small note pad, a pallet if you have one
Supply sources: Online catalogs like- Cheap Joe’s, Blick, Jerrysartarama.com, and sometimes Amazon. Retail stores: Meiningers, Michaels, Hobby Lobby
2021 URBAN SKETCH CRAWL
June 24 9:00 – 1:00 Urban Sketch Crawl $15 Mary Lou Johns
Here is a great opportunity to assemble a few minimum supplies for quick sketching and try them out in the streets of busy Breckenridge. During this outing, Mary Lou Johns will lead us to interesting storefronts, Maggie Pond plaza, and lots of street activity. You’ll stop to take photos and do quick sketches, paint optional. These may turn into fun subjects for future paintings. Wear sturdy shoes and pack lightly. Bring your lunch for a noon picnic and a review of the sketching experience. Meet at 9:00 am in the Tonapah parking lot off Ridge Street, Breckenridge.
Take a look at this 6-minute video of a Sketch Crawl in Portland, OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYa9D7l2lI
June 24 9:00 – 1:00 Urban Sketch Crawl $15 Mary Lou Johns
Here is a great opportunity to assemble a few minimum supplies for quick sketching and try them out in the streets of busy Breckenridge. During this outing, Mary Lou Johns will lead us to interesting storefronts, Maggie Pond plaza, and lots of street activity. You’ll stop to take photos and do quick sketches, paint optional. These may turn into fun subjects for future paintings. Wear sturdy shoes and pack lightly. Bring your lunch for a noon picnic and a review of the sketching experience. Meet at 9:00 am in the Tonapah parking lot off Ridge Street, Breckenridge.
Take a look at this 6-minute video of a Sketch Crawl in Portland, OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYa9D7l2lI
2021 3-DAY SUMMER WORKSHOPS
We will offer two Plein Air painting classes in July of 2021, see below.
Maximum class size will be determined by Summit County.
Dates Workshop 1: Monday-Wednesday 7/19 - 7/21, 2021 9 am - noon
Dates Workshop 2: Monday-Wednesday 7/26 - 7/28, 2021 9 am - noon
Instructor: Steve Griggs
Cost: $100
About this class: Learn how to create moving and evocative watercolor paintings with free and generous brush strokes. During this Steve Griggs workshop, you are invited to try out a variety of watercolor painting strategies and techniques to create loose, intuitive, free, and spontaneous effects. You will learn about color mixing, glazes, composition, drying time, thickness, and edges while painting short, warm-up sketches as well as finished landscape or cityscape paintings. There is sure to be a lot of laughter and camaraderie as participants move out of their comfort zones and encourage one another’s efforts.
We will offer two Plein Air painting classes in July of 2021, see below.
Maximum class size will be determined by Summit County.
Dates Workshop 1: Monday-Wednesday 7/19 - 7/21, 2021 9 am - noon
Dates Workshop 2: Monday-Wednesday 7/26 - 7/28, 2021 9 am - noon
Instructor: Steve Griggs
Cost: $100
About this class: Learn how to create moving and evocative watercolor paintings with free and generous brush strokes. During this Steve Griggs workshop, you are invited to try out a variety of watercolor painting strategies and techniques to create loose, intuitive, free, and spontaneous effects. You will learn about color mixing, glazes, composition, drying time, thickness, and edges while painting short, warm-up sketches as well as finished landscape or cityscape paintings. There is sure to be a lot of laughter and camaraderie as participants move out of their comfort zones and encourage one another’s efforts.
2021 SUMMER MINI CLASSES
Mini Classes are $15 per class
Mini Class 1:
August 19 9-noon Transparent Color $15 Kate Kiesler
Location: To be determined
Are you mixing mud? The beauty of watercolor is its transparency and in the use of the white
of the paper. This class will help students understand their color choices when mixing paint.
Get luminous greens, greys, and browns by limiting your palette and choosing transparent
pigments.
Supplies: Please bring your own photograph to work from and your usual supplies.
Mini Class 2:
August 26 9-noon Painting Birds $15 Linda Marr
Location: To be determined
Learn to draw and paint our local Summit CO birds! We will start with basic bird anatomy,
and continue with how to depict birds from different angles and postures.
We will try different painting styles, from cartoon images to realistic representations, with a variety of backgrounds.
Supplies: Your everyday watercolor paints, brushes, water container, paper towel or rags, pencil, drawing paper,
masking fluid, if you have it. I will also have some. You may bring your own reference photos, or use mine.
Mini Class 3:
September 2 9-noon Abstracting the Landscape $15 Sandi Bruns
Location: Outdoor - to be determined
We’ll paint outdoors and look for elements in the landscape to simplify or exaggerate (or
perhaps change entirely) with the goal of making a painting based on what we are seeing and
feeling, but not replicating every detail we see. The idea is to make an interesting, well
composed picture, not a “photograph.”
Supplies: Bring your regular plein air painting supplies (and big brushes) for this adventure!
Women of Watercolor gather around artist/teacher Randy Hale as he paints a demo at beautiful Lake Dillon, Colorado.
This was one day of a three-day workshop that he conducted for WOW.
This was one day of a three-day workshop that he conducted for WOW.
Sarah Bracco conducts a Mini Class for the Women of Watercolor.
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WOW Mini Class Policy
Registration, Replacements, Refunds
Registration:
- Members will register for all mini classes through the registrar.
- Registration forms will be emailed out in April and must be returned with a postmark no earlier than May 25. (If you are not available to mail your registration, find someone who can mail it for you.)
- Classes will be filled based on the postmark date.
- Waiting lists will be compiled for classes that have more registrations than the 12 slots available.
- No walk ins will be allowed in classes.
- No one can ask an instructor if they can attend a class.
- If a member is unable to attend a class, she must notify the registrar that she is unable to attend the class.
- The registrar will then notify the first person on the waiting list of the class opening. That person will then send the required class fee to the treasurer.
- If there is no waiting list, the registrar will notify the membership of the class opening via an email alert.
- If a member does not show up for a class, she forfeits the class fee.
- If a member drops out of a class and the class is not full, she forfeits the class fee.
- If a member drops out of a class, but the class is filled, she gets a refund from the treasurer.
- If the instructor cancels the class and it is not rescheduled, members will be refunded class fees.
- If a cancelled class is rescheduled, but the member cannot attend, her class fees will be refunded
