Workshops - Sunlight, Shade, and Shadow

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Sunlight, Shade, and Shadow Watercolor Workshop….

Linda Doll is a good humored, energetic instructor who stresses the importance of making personal design decisions at each stage of your painting. She has developed a unique and effective teaching style which stimulates optimism, enthusiasm, confidence and creative excitement within her students.

Her painting classes are designed to inspire beginners and to challenge advanced students with painting demonstrations, lectures, slide presentations, personal instruction, and individual critiques.

The focus of this workshop will be seeing, understanding, and capturing sunlight, shade, and shadow. We will also explore the basic controls of abstract design and the inventive use of color since more paintings suffer from lack of design and color organization than anything else.

We will learn to “create” a painting using photographs rather than just copying a photograph. The bulk of the class time will be spent experimenting with hands-on-painting problems. Previous sketches, old or new paintings, photos, memory or invention can be the source of subject matter. Attention will be given to the development of a personal painting style. Beginners are welcome; advanced students will be given individual challenges.

 

Recommended Experience Level:  All levels

 

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Linda A. Doll, aws, nws

 Linda is a painter, digital photographer, graphic artist, instructor and juror. A teacher of workshops and seminars throughout the US, Mexico, Canada, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Ireland and Bali, she is t h e head o f t h e USA Chapter of International Watercolor Society, a Past President and Life Member of the National Watercolor Society, she has been a Board Member and Juror for the American Watercolor Society, and has been a Board Member of Watercolor West. Linda is a Life Honorary Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and an Elected Life Member of the San Diego Watercolor Society. Her paintings and drawings are included in many books and have been used by several magazines for their covers. Linda is included in many of the Who's Who Publications including Who's Who in American Art.

 People and Still Life Subjects that hint at the person just outside the picture plane are Linda's favorite painting subjects. She portrays them without flattery or glamour in an aura of quietude, stressing their dignity and individuality. She combines areas of flat color with highly skilled composition and design to create an attitude of introspection when depicting her subjects. When not creating her “Peoplescapes” Linda enjoys working abstractly with color, value and design in her series “Lifescapes” which are Digital Collages.

 She says her “LIFESCAPES”, her digital collage pieces are quite exciting for her. There’s such freedom in being able to photograph exactly what she find aesthetically appealing and then to be able to combine or collage these photos back in the studio in Adobe Photoshop. She is then able to manipulate these photos, adjusting the image, colors, values, intensities, etc. just as she does when painting.“

 Linda Doll is a good humored, energetic instructor who stresses the importance of making personal design decisions at each stage of the painting. She has developed a unique and effective teaching style that stimulates optimism, enthusiasm, confidence and creative excitement within her students. Her painting classes are designed to inspire beginners and to challenge advanced students with painting demonstrations, lectures, slide presentations, personal instruction and individual critiques.

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Email: lindadoll@me.com - Website: www.lindadoll.com


Non Members Fee: $440.00 Members Fee: $400.00

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