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Watercolor possesses a quality unlike any other painting medium: the ability to express light through transparency. Contrary to popular belief, this brilliance isn't achieved simply by leaving the paper—or even the initial light washes—uncovered. It is revealed through the careful orchestration of every layer that follows.
Each transparent wash, every shift in value, and each passage of increasing opacity either strengthens or diminishes the painting's sense of light. As darker values are thoughtfully introduced, the luminous passages emerge with greater brilliance, allowing light to travel through the transparent layers and reflect back from the paper beneath.
During this two-day plein air workshop on Balboa Island, we'll explore how to recognize, preserve, and ultimately reveal light through deliberate value relationships, pigment control, and thoughtful layering. Rather than treating light as something to avoid painting over, you'll learn how every brushstroke contributes to revealing watercolor's greatest strength—its extraordinary ability to express light.
Each day the workshop will begin at 9:00am. There will be a lunch break from 12:00pm-1:00pm. The workshop will conclude each day by 5:00pm.
This will be a smaller intimate workshop, I hope you can join me there and please plan to attend the Just Plein Fun Gala, Quick Paint event and Exhibition at the Huse Skelly Gallery on the 7th!
Watercolor possesses a quality unlike any other painting medium: the ability to express light through transparency. Contrary to popular belief, this brilliance isn't achieved simply by leaving the paper—or even the initial light washes—uncovered. It is revealed through the careful orchestration of every layer that follows.
Each transparent wash, every shift in value, and each passage of increasing opacity either strengthens or diminishes the painting's sense of light. As darker values are thoughtfully introduced, the luminous passages emerge with greater brilliance, allowing light to travel through the transparent layers and reflect back from the paper beneath.
During this two-day plein air workshop on Balboa Island, we'll explore how to recognize, preserve, and ultimately reveal light through deliberate value relationships, pigment control, and thoughtful layering. Rather than treating light as something to avoid painting over, you'll learn how every brushstroke contributes to revealing watercolor's greatest strength—its extraordinary ability to express light.
Each day the workshop will begin at 9:00am. There will be a lunch break from 12:00pm-1:00pm. The workshop will conclude each day by 5:00pm.
This will be a smaller intimate workshop, I hope you can join me there and please plan to attend the Just Plein Fun Gala, Quick Paint event and Exhibition at the Huse Skelly Gallery on the 7th!