Women of Watercolor:
CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS 2020
WOW will offer 5 types of educational opportunities during the summer of 2020:
The classes below are scheduled to take place in summer 2020. Maximum class sizes will be determined by Summit County.
Information and registration forms will be mailed out to members 2-4 weeks prior to class.
The classes below are scheduled to take place in summer 2020. Maximum class sizes will be determined by Summit County.
- A basics class for newer painters in July
- An Urban Sketch Crawl in July
- Two 3-day workshop intensives with a professional instructor in July
- 4 half day Mini-Classes in August
- 1 Plein Air painting session in September
Information and registration forms will be mailed out to members 2-4 weeks prior to class.
Painting at Alpine Gardens July 2019.
2020 SUMMER BASICS CLASS
Workshop: Watercolor Basics
Date: Tuesday July 7, 2020
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 – Ann Brewster’s studio
Cost - $30 per WOW member, $55 non-members. If a non- member wishes to join WOW, the additional $25 will go toward membership through 2020.
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: Tuesday July 7, 2020
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 – Ann Brewster’s studio
Cost - $30 per WOW member, $55 non-members. If a non- member wishes to join WOW, the additional $25 will go toward membership through 2020.
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
2020 URBAN SKETCH CRAWL
July 16 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 old buildings, a children’s park, 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 Wellington parking lot off Main Street, Breckenridge.
Take a look at this 6-minute video of a Sketch Crawl in Portland, OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYa9D7l2lI
July 16 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 old buildings, a children’s park, 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 Wellington parking lot off Main Street, Breckenridge.
Take a look at this 6-minute video of a Sketch Crawl in Portland, OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYa9D7l2lI
2020 3-DAY SUMMER WORKSHOPS
We will offer two Plein Air painting classes in July of 2020, see below.
Maximum class size will be determined by Summit County.
Dates Workshop 1: Monday-Wednesday 7/20 - 7/22, 2020
Dates Workshop 2: Monday-Wednesday 7/27 - 7/29, 2020
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 2020, see below.
Maximum class size will be determined by Summit County.
Dates Workshop 1: Monday-Wednesday 7/20 - 7/22, 2020
Dates Workshop 2: Monday-Wednesday 7/27 - 7/29, 2020
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.
2020 SUMMER MINI CLASSES
You can sign up for as many mini-classes as you like.
If you want to attend more than one class, please note order of preference when you send in your registration form.
Mini Class 1:
August 6 9:00 -3:00 Negative Space $30 Gail Firmin
Mount Royal Room Frisco County Commons
Learn how to carve images out of negative space and create lost and found edges to give your nature paintings richness and depth. Some watercolor experience highly recommended. We will begin class by doing some drawing exercises to introduce the principle of negative space. Then we will move on to a simple watercolor, carving shapes out of the background. Finally, we will work on a composition of leaves and branches using the negative painting techniques we've practiced. Discussion of design principles, color triads, and different watercolor techniques will be included.
Supplies: Bring your watercolor supplies to class: A quarter sheet (11x15) of 140 lb paper, a couple pieces of copy paper or drawing paper, gatorboard or support, tape, brushes, water bowl, spray bottle, pencil and kneaded eraser, paper towels and a palette with watercolor paints, (suggested colors or similar: raw sienna, burnt sienna, cobalt blue, permanent rose), blow dryer.
Mini Class 2:
August 13 9-noon Transparent Color $15 Kate Kiesler
Mount Royal Room County Commons in Frisco
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. Please bring your own photograph to work from and your usual supplies.
Mini Class 3:
August 20 9-noon Painting Birds $15 Linda Marr
Mount Royal Room Commons Room in Frisco
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 4:
August 27 9:00 – 3:00 Watercolor Portraits $30 Karen Ramsay
Mount Royal Room Commons Room in Frisco
Please come join me for a day of painting watercolor portraits. Watercolor allows us to capture exciting and expressive portraits. With the beauty of line, color, along with light and shadow shapes, we can accomplish an informal to a formal portrait.
Along with your painting and sketching supplies, please bring:
• reference photos • these can be personal, magazine or computer images.
character type photos can be quite fun.
(copyrighted photos may not be used for sale or competitions) • keep in mind good shadows and different angles, these make for
more interesting paintings.
• convert colored images to black & white, bring both • enlarge photos, (i.e. 8 x 10) helps to see details
• tracing paper
• black fine tip marker
I look forward to painting with you all!
FALL PLEIN AIR WORKSHOP
September 3 9:00-Noon Abstracting the Landscape $15 Sandi Bruns
Location to come
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.”
Bring your regular plein air painting supplies (and big brushes) for this adventure!
You can sign up for as many mini-classes as you like.
If you want to attend more than one class, please note order of preference when you send in your registration form.
Mini Class 1:
August 6 9:00 -3:00 Negative Space $30 Gail Firmin
Mount Royal Room Frisco County Commons
Learn how to carve images out of negative space and create lost and found edges to give your nature paintings richness and depth. Some watercolor experience highly recommended. We will begin class by doing some drawing exercises to introduce the principle of negative space. Then we will move on to a simple watercolor, carving shapes out of the background. Finally, we will work on a composition of leaves and branches using the negative painting techniques we've practiced. Discussion of design principles, color triads, and different watercolor techniques will be included.
Supplies: Bring your watercolor supplies to class: A quarter sheet (11x15) of 140 lb paper, a couple pieces of copy paper or drawing paper, gatorboard or support, tape, brushes, water bowl, spray bottle, pencil and kneaded eraser, paper towels and a palette with watercolor paints, (suggested colors or similar: raw sienna, burnt sienna, cobalt blue, permanent rose), blow dryer.
Mini Class 2:
August 13 9-noon Transparent Color $15 Kate Kiesler
Mount Royal Room County Commons in Frisco
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. Please bring your own photograph to work from and your usual supplies.
Mini Class 3:
August 20 9-noon Painting Birds $15 Linda Marr
Mount Royal Room Commons Room in Frisco
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 4:
August 27 9:00 – 3:00 Watercolor Portraits $30 Karen Ramsay
Mount Royal Room Commons Room in Frisco
Please come join me for a day of painting watercolor portraits. Watercolor allows us to capture exciting and expressive portraits. With the beauty of line, color, along with light and shadow shapes, we can accomplish an informal to a formal portrait.
Along with your painting and sketching supplies, please bring:
• reference photos • these can be personal, magazine or computer images.
character type photos can be quite fun.
(copyrighted photos may not be used for sale or competitions) • keep in mind good shadows and different angles, these make for
more interesting paintings.
• convert colored images to black & white, bring both • enlarge photos, (i.e. 8 x 10) helps to see details
• tracing paper
• black fine tip marker
I look forward to painting with you all!
FALL PLEIN AIR WORKSHOP
September 3 9:00-Noon Abstracting the Landscape $15 Sandi Bruns
Location to come
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.”
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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Registration dates and policies will be different in 2020.
Please refer to the Registration Forms that will be emailed out to members.
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
