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2025 Virtual Workshop Instructions
California Watercolor Association Workshop Series 2025
Amit Kapoor 2025 In Person Workshop
Amit Kapoor – How to Capture the Magic of Light & Shadow & How to Simplify a Complicated Subject
May 16-18, 2025 (3 Days), 9 AM – 4 PM PST
*Recording of the entire workshop will be available for 30 days
All Skill Levels
The workshop will begin with a discussion of the Fundamentals of Composition (6 GOLDEN RULES). We will explore these Golden Rules and how they apply to creating a well-balanced painting.
1. Source of Light (Light & Shadow)
2. Perspective
3. Staging & posing
4. Camera Angles and Views
5. Elements & Properties
6. Line of Action in the figures
During the next three days of the workshop, we will apply these rules in the demo paintings and let the students work them into their paintings focusing on capturing the magic of light and shadow.
Workshop Dates: May 16-18, 2025 (3 days), Friday through Sunday, 9 AM - 4 PM PST
Recording Available: Yes
Skill Level: All Levels
Registration Fees: Non-Members $455, Members $395
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Mr. Amit kapoor is a leading master of watercolor medium in India. He has been recognized with top international honors for his paintings and his art graces the walls of many private and corporate collectors. He is in constant demand for solo exhibitions, workshops and instruction. His art captures the very soul of his subjects with passion. His exceptional drawing skills and extra ordinary abilities In art makes him proficient in any medium. His subjects include lot of compositional works where lovely play of light and shadow and prespectives are the main traits He is also the co founder and Principal of Anitoons The School Of Art And Animation. He is guest lecturer in many prestigious Art colleges like College of Art, Delhi, Apeejay Institute of Design, Jamia Millia Islamia (Mass Communication department), Meerabai Institute of technology . He was also in the jury Panel of Jamia Millia Islamia (Mass Communication department), in the jury panel of Jaipur Animation Film Festival (JAFF). He has been interviewed by several International influential media and magazines and he has high reputation for professional production and inspired leadership. Recently in 2013 he also launched his first book in watercolor medium “Amit kapoor LANDSCAPES IN WATERCOLOR“. He is the only Indian Watercolor Artist to get Silver Star Award from National Watercolor Society, USA. He is only Indian Artist invited for Live Demonstration by world’s biggest Art Channel “ SAA”, UK.
Artist Website: https://www.amitkapoorwatercolor.com/
Social Media Sites
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amit.kapoor.904750/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amitkapoor_watercolors/
Date | Time | |
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Friday, May 16, 2025 - Sunday, May 18, 2025 10 places available. |
9:00 AM-4:00 PM |
To receive the Member Price, please log in, choose Workshops, then click the blue Sign Up Now button above. If you are not a CWA member, you may click the Sign Up Now button at any time.
Alternatively, you may download and print out the Registration Form, fill it out and mail it with your check to the name and address printed on the form.
Thomas Schaller 2025 Virtual ZOOM Workshop
Thomas Schaller – Design and the Power of Imagination
June 16-18, 2025 (3 Days), 9 AM – 4 PM PST
*Recording of the entire workshop will be available for 30 days
All Levels Welcome. Some Experience with Watercolor Recommended.
Why we paint is far more important than what or how we paint. My work is a study in contrasts: light and dark, vertical and horizontal, warm and cool, the real and the imagined, and elements of the past, present, and future. I love to design with conflicting elements - allowing them to find balance and resolution on the surface of the paper in surprising and expressive ways. And I try never to paint just what I look at, but rather how it is I see. Painting for me is less about the result and more about becoming fully present in the process. I learn by better listening to my own creative voice. And I invite you to take part in this process - not to listen to any narrative of mine, but to help you to find and develop the artistic voice that is yours alone.
Workshop Dates: June 16-18, 2025 (3 days), Monday through Wednesday, 9 AM - 4 PM PST
Recording Available: Yes
Skill Level: All Skill Levels
Registration Fees: Non-Members $410, Members $350
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Thomas W. Schaller AWS NWS TWSA ASAI, is an award-winning artist, architect, and author based in New York City. As a renowned architectural artist, he received a Graham Foundation Grant and was a two-time recipient of the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize. He has authored three books; the best-selling, and AIA award winner, Architecture in Watercolor (VNR – McGraw Hill) The Art of Architectural Drawing (J.Wiley and Sons), and Thomas W. Schaller, Architect of Light : Watercolor Paintings by a Master. (Penguin Random House)
Web Site: https://www.thomasschaller.com
Social Media Sites:
https://www.facebook.com/thomaswschaller
https://twitter.com/twschaller
https://www.instagram.com/thomaswschaller/
Date | Time | |
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Monday, June 16, 2025 - Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Full |
9:00 AM-4:00 PM | WAIT LIST ONLYPlease click here to be added to the waitlist. |
To receive the Member Price, please log in, choose Workshops, then click the blue Sign Up Now button above. If you are not a CWA member, you may click the Sign Up Now button at any time.
Alternatively, you may download and print out the Registration Form, fill it out and mail it with your check to the name and address printed on the form.
Keiko Tanabe 2025 In Person Workshop
Keiko Tanabe – Keep it Simple and Strong
October 27-29, 2025 (3 Days), 9 AM – 4 PM PST
Intermediate (Some experience with watercolor is recommended)
My work is impressionistic. I like to represent people or places and allow the painting to evolve from the structure of what is recognizable. The challenge is to balance the care needed to make the representation interesting… and perhaps believable, with the freedom, looseness and painterly quality that makes painting so unique and expressive.
Workshop Dates: October 27-29, 2025 (3 days), Monday through Wednesday, 9 AM - 4 PM PST
Recording Available: Yes
Skill Level: Intermediate
Registration Fees: Non-Members $455, Members $425
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Keiko was born in Kyoto, Japan and currently lives in San Diego, California. Mostly self-taught, she embarked on a professional art career in 2005. Since then, her paintings have been in many national and international exhibitions, both juried and invitational, and gained world-wide recognitions. Her work has been purchased by private and corporate collectors from all around the world. She also had her paintings published and featured in leading art magazines and a number of publications in the U.S., Europe and Asia. A sought-after workshop instructor since 2011, she has conducted numerous workshops and live demonstrations around the world. She has frequently served as a juror in art exhibitions both on national and on international levels. In 2018, she was appointed to the advisory board of the American Watercolor Weekly. She has several books and 4 DVD’s published. She is a signature member of National Watercolor Society, American Watercolor Society, American Impressionist Society and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, respectively. She was awarded the master artist status from the San Diego Watercolor Society. Since 2021, she has been an Official Savoir-Faire, Sennelier, Cretacolor, Fabriano & Raphael Advocate. She is also an Escoda International Brand Ambassador.
Artist Website: https://www.ktanabefineart.com
Social Media Sites
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ktanabewatercolor/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keikotanabewatercolor/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KeikoTanabeFineArt
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@keikotanabewatercolor
Date | Time | |
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Monday, October 27, 2025 - Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Full |
9:00 AM-4:00 PM | WAIT LIST ONLYPlease click here to be added to the waitlist. |
To receive the Member Price, please log in, choose Workshops, then click the blue Sign Up Now button above. If you are not a CWA member, you may click the Sign Up Now button at any time.
Alternatively, you may download and print out the Registration Form, fill it out and mail it with your check to the name and address printed on the form.