Before Covid shut us down I was able to offer a free watercolor workshop during January on four Mondays at the Sussex County Art Society meeting place in the Hampton Township Community Center. We had at least eighteen people attend and it was a lot of fun. My approach was to use watercolor paintings by various artists that each highlighted a different and particular technique and some elements of composition. My first lesson was on a flat wash, noting that many artists work almost exclusively with flat surfaces. I used a Jersey artist who worked in oils, Will Barnett, and used an old painting of mine that could be presented as a flat wash image.
The second lesson was a graded wash and I used a Jeanne Dobie Florida scene. This image is my rendering. Learning from copying master painters!!.
We then moved on to more complex use of the flat wash, the blended and graded flat wash, mixing colors, here pink, orange and green in a Costal Village painting by Joyce Hicks, again my rendering as part of the demo.
On the fourth, final and most challenging day we attempted (I am tempted to say attacked, because the painting requires quick and forceful brushwork) some dry brush and wet in wet techniques. We used the haunting image, "The Marsh Mill," by Edward Seago as our learning platform. Again the image is my less haunting rendering from the class demo.
Lastly for this post I include a paint illustration for a fund raiser book for the Richard's building at the fair grounds, put out by Art in Sussex County. Sue Struble assigned me to illustrate the rooster logo attending the demolition derby. The book came out in late May with great illustrations by many Sussex County artists.
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