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2022 Virtual Workshop Instructions
California Watercolor Association Workshop Series 2022
Leslie Wilson 2022 Virtual Workshop
Leslie Wilson – Watercolors – Fresh and Loose
August 15-17, 2022 (3 Days), 9 AM – 4 PM, Hours of Instruction: 20
Advanced Beginner to Expert
Explore watercolor painting to its fullest with emphasis upon a direct painting process, incorporating elements of design and your own creative vision. Students will develop more advanced watercolor painting skills using still life, live model, and/or photographic references, and including demonstrations, coaching and critiques as needed.
Workshop Dates: August 15-17, 2022 (3 days), Monday through Wednesday, 9 am - 4 pm
Instruction Hours: 20
Recording Available: Yes
Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Expert
Registration Fees: Non-Members $375, Members $315
Artist Website: Leslie Wilson
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Leslie Wilson is a watercolor artist offering original watercolor paintings and commissions, including landscapes, still life and figures in an impressionistic style. Art has always been fundamental in her life. She has focused on watercolor painting for more than 30 years, capturing the moment in vibrant light and color, both en plein air and in the studio. She loves transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary and reminding people of the places they have been, the people they have met, and the truly remarkable light and color in our world.
Date | Time | |
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Monday, August 15, 2022 - Wednesday, August 17, 2022 14 places available. |
9:00 AM-4:00 PM |
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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.
Michael Reardon 2022 Virtual Workshop
Michael Reardon – Watercolors Techniques
September 19-21, 2022 (3 Days), 9 AM – 4 PM, Hours of Instruction: 20
Advanced Beginner to Advanced
In this workshop you will work on techniques to strengthen your skills in watercolor landscape painting. Fundamentals covered will include: creating a strong composition, evoking a sense of light through the use of values; and manipulating color for its full expressive effect. While Michael will demonstrate his painting style and the use of colors in his palette, he will encourage participants to develop their personal style and approach to watercolor.
A demonstration will start each day, followed by individual painting with careful guidance. A review of the day’s work concludes each day. You will also explore ways to work with photo references so that they help, not dictate, your final painting.
All levels are welcome. Some experience with watercolor recommended.
Workshop Dates: September 19-21, 2022 (3 days), Monday through Wednesday, 9 am - 4 pm
Instruction Hours: 20
Recording Available: Yes
Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Advanced
Registration Fees: Non-Members $400, Members $340
Artist Website: Michael Reardon
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Michael Reardon is a watercolor artist based in Oakland, California. His work has received numerous awards in national and international competition. He is widely sought as a juror and workshop instructor.
He is a Signature Member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, California Art Club and has Master Signature status in the California Watercolor Association. He has received many awards, including Best of Show at the Triton Museum of Art Statewide Exhibition of Watercolor and the Ogden and Mary Pleissner Memorial Award from the American Watercolor Society. His work has been featured in many magazines, including American Artist Watercolor, the Artist’s Magazine, Southwest Art, Watercolor Artist, Plein Air, Fine Art Connoisseur, and L’Art de l’Aquarelle. He is the author of Watercolor Techniques, published by North Light Books.
Learn more about Michael Reardon
Date | Time | |
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Monday, September 19, 2022 - Wednesday, September 21, 2022 19 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.
Fealing Lin 2022 Virtual Workshop
Fealing Lin – Transparent Watercolor Portraiture and Figure
October 12-14, 2022 (3 Days), 9 AM – 4 PM, Hours of Instruction: 20
*Recording of entire workshop will be available for 30 days
Intermediate to Expert
Although portrait painting can be very intimidating, Fealing will teach you how to relax and enjoy the process as you discover the spontaneity and uniqueness to watercolor. You will also learn how to capture the quality of light available to you. You will achieve a level of transparency with your images and develop an understanding of head architecture that will give you the confidence to take on even the most challenging portraits. Award winning watercolorist, Fealing combines semi-abstract strokes and impressionistic concepts to elicit life and movement in her portrait and figure paintings. There will be daily lecture, exercise and demo. Fealing will assist and critique student’s works whatever way she could, and allow the students to work on their own pace. During this workshop, learn how value and temperature change, as well as how to use transparent glazing to allow the glow of the paper to shine through. By balancing colors and weaving lights and darks, you will achieve painterly and successful paintings. She will spend time in the workshop discussing the value and essentials of a good drawing, although the focus will be on painting.
Workshop Dates: October 12-14, 2022 (3 days), Monday through Wednesday, 9 am - 4 pm
Instruction Hours: 20
Recording Available: Yes
Skill Level: Intermediate to Expert
Registration Fees: Non-Members $235, Members $175
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Based in Los Angeles, Fealing is a signature member of National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Watercolor West, Missouri Watercolor Society and others. She is a popular workshop instructor and judges for national and international shows. Her works and articles appear nationally and internationally including in France, in England and in Estonia. Both Fealing's portraits and cityscapes were published in many Splash books and various magazines in the United States.
"I live for art," says Fealing, "The challenge of each process of every painting keeps me humble, so I can continually be inspired by all of the beauties in this world."
Date | Time | |
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - Friday, October 14, 2022 12 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.