Workshop Information
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In-Gallery Workshops: All in-gallery workshops are held in our beautifully light-filled education center inside the San Diego Watercolor Society in The ARTS District of Liberty Station. (Location)
ZOOM Workshops: Virtual workshops will be conducted using Zoom. They will include a combination of live painting demo(s), interactive communication with the instructor, and individual painting time - all from the convenience of your home studio.
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Premier Workshops
Premier Workshops are typically two to four days. They are taught by nationally and internationally renowned artists. Workshops are open to artist of all levels.
Florals and Fruit: From Real to Really Amazing - ZOOM
Suzanne Hetzel
Zoom Workshop
Take your florals and still lifes from traditional to extraordinary! From the comfort of our home studio, you'll explore new techniques - from realistic to abstract - and leave with fresh approaches for vibrant, eye-catching paintings.
Experience Level - Intermediate to Advanced.
Non Members Fee: $300.00 Members Fee: $275.00
| Date: Monday, November 9, 2026 - Wednesday, November 11, 2026 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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Beyond the Brush: A Mixed Media Playground
Beyond the Brush: A Mixed Media Playground with Denise Cerro
Discover exciting ways to create art using paint, paper, fabric, found objects, and more. Experiment with layering textures and materials to bring unique ideas to life.
Experience Level - This workshop is designed as an introduction to mixed media.
Non Members Fee: $185.00 Members Fee: $165.00
| Date: Saturday, January 16, 2027 - Sunday, January 17, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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It's Just a Face
It's Just a Face with Roberta Dyer
We will use the face as a vehicle for creating dynamic, decorative, exciting works of art using patint, stamps, crayons, pencils, charcoal, collage, and anything else that comes to hand. It'll be fun!
Non Members Fee: $225.00 Members Fee: $200.00
| Date: Saturday, January 23, 2027 - Sunday, January 24, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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Drawing and Painting Birds
Drawing and Painting Birds with Ken Goldman
Learn from Ken Goldman how to draw and paint convincing birds in any water media of choice.
Non Members Fee: $225.00 Members Fee: $200.00
| Date: Saturday, February 20, 2027 - Sunday, February 21, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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From Energy to Expression: Acrylic Landscapes
From Energy to Expression: Acrylic Landscapes with Sarah B. Hansen
Explore how to move beyond simply describing the lanscape, and begin paiinting its spirit, energy, and emotional resonance.
Non Members Fee: $425.00 Members Fee: $400.00
| Date: Monday, March 8, 2027 - Wednesday, March 10, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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Creative Mixed Media & Acrylic Painting
Creative Mixed Media & Acrylic Painting with Robert Burridge
Learn new techniques for creating mixed media work with specific themes, like self-portraiture and figures.
Non Members Fee: $525.00 Members Fee: $500.00
| Date: Monday, April 12, 2027 - Wednesday, April 14, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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What Do You Want to Say, and How Will You Say It?
What Do You Want to Say, and How Will You Say It? with Ruth Ellen Hoag
Do we as contemporary artists, or you, specifically, have painting rules you live by? What are they?
I think we can boil down the rules of painting to pretty much one thing: “A Lot vs a Little” this will be the through line for looking briefly at the tools, or elements, of art. Then mainly diving into composition and exploring how design is relevant or not, and what truism is there in composition and design and how each individual is going to take these ideas into their own direction.
Non Members Fee: $400.00 Members Fee: $375.00
| Date: Monday, May 10, 2027 - Wednesday, May 12, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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Coffee and People
Coffee and People with Lisa Wang
Lisa will explain how to best use Chinese bruses for different washes and a variety of brushwork. Focus to be on drawing skills, which is the foundation of painting, edges, and value contrast.
Non Members Fee: $550.00 Members Fee: $500.00
| Date: Thursday, May 27, 2027 - Saturday, May 29, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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Master Landscape Workshop
Master Landscape Workshop with Joseph Zbukvic
A landscape workshop for advanced painters with one of the world's most accomplished painters and teachers.
Non Members Fee: $850.00 Members Fee: $800.00
| Date: Sunday, May 30, 2027 - Tuesday, June 1, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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What Can We Learn from the Masters?
What Can We Learn from the Masters? with Mike Kowalski
Using watercolor masters as a jumping-off point, we'll see what we can add to our own work by gleaning what we find exciting, ineresting, and bewitching in the paintings we study.
Non Members Fee: $475.00 Members Fee: $450.00
| Date: Monday, June 7, 2027 - Wednesday, June 9, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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Reflections and Feathers ZOOM Workshop
Reflections and Feathers - Painting a Bird in Water, a ZOOM workshop,
with Lorraine Watry
Lorraine will demonstrate her approach to capturing both the beauty of reflective water and the realism of the subject being reflected.
Non Members Fee: $325.00 Members Fee: $300.00
| Date: Friday, July 9, 2027 - Sunday, July 11, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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Mastering Watercolor Techniques
Mastering Watercolor Techniques with Vlad Yeliseyev
Through demonstrations, discussions, and hands-on exercises, students will see watercolor from a fresh perspective an dlearn to approach each painting with greater purpose.
Non Members Fee: $650.00 Members Fee: $625.00
| Date: Monday, August 9, 2027 - Thursday, August 12, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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From Field Sketch to Finished Landscape
From Field Sketch to Finished Landscape: Desigining and Strenghening Paintings in Gouache with Thomas O'Brien
Non Members Fee: $185.00 Members Fee: $165.00
| Date: Saturday, August 21, 2027 - Sunday, August 22, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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Expressive Portraits in Watercolor
Expressive Portaits in Watercolor: Light, Structure, and Personal Voice with Rabi Alieva
Learn how to truly understand the face, its proportions, planes, and value structure, and use that knowledge to create expressive, emotionally compelling work.
Non Members Fee: $425.00 Members Fee: $400.00
| Date: Monday, September 6, 2027 - Wednesday, September 8, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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Refining Your Artist Voice
Refining Your Artistic Voice: Creating Art With Impact Acrylic Workshop with Liz Walker
This workshop is designed to help artists gain more freedom inthe creative process and discover their own unique artistic voice.
Non Members Fee: $400.00 Members Fee: $375.00
| Date: Monday, November 8, 2027 - Wednesday, November 10, 2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
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