Workshops
The San Diego Watercolor Society Workshops are held in our beautiful, light-filled education center in the SDWS Gallery in The ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station, 2825 Dewey Road, Bldg #202, San Diego, CA 92106.
Prices are discounted for SDWS Members. To receive the discounted price, please log in, then choose Workshops to find the desired workshop, register and receive the automatic discount.
If you are not a member or your membership has expired and would like to receive the discounted price, renew your membership or join SDWS prior to signing up.
Questions? Please contact our workshops registrar at workshops@sdws.org.
Workshops
Sketches to Masterpieces
Instructor: Shuang Li
This workshop focuses on COMPOSITION and DESIGN. During the workshop, you will learn important design principles of composition. Learn how to turn your own small sketches into well-designed successful paintings! The class will be working with watercolor based mediums. Learn Shuang Li’s approach to capturing on-site landscape photos and sketches.
Recommended experience level: All levels
Non Members Fee: $200.00 Members Fee: $175.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Saturday, July 27th, 2019 - Sunday, July 28th, 2019 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM |
WAIT LIST ONLY |
Workshop Full. Wait List Only.
Figurative Design - Character Development
Instructor: Jeannie McGuire
In Jeannie’s Figurative Design Watercolor Workshops she aims to act as a mentor and inspire artists to create character in their figurative work. Jeannie shares her painting application and spontaneous thoughts and stories that guide her design process and style. As a student you are encouraged to be imaginative about the people in your reference photos and to study their expressions, body language, surroundings and interactions.
You will hear about intuitive design and composition, versatility of pigment/water ratios, intentional and spontaneous marks, use of titanium white as an additional pigment, and the freedom to change your mind.
Recommended experience level: all levels
Non Members Fee: $640.00 Members Fee: $600.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, August 12th, 2019 - Friday, August 16th, 2019 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Textural Watercolor
Instructor: Risë Parberry
Use granulating watercolors and saturated paper to portray your unique world view! Move beyond painting literal representations by learning to distill the essence of your subject matter and create art with a bold, experimental attitude influenced by gravity. See more detail on this 3 -day textural pigment journey @ SDWS.org Workshops! Some previous watercolor experience necessary.
Recommended experience level: Intermediate levels
Non Members Fee: $200.00 Members Fee: $175.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Saturday, August 17th, 2019 - Monday, August 19th, 2019 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Composition & Narrative
Instructor: Chuck McPherson
For watercolor painters seeking more from their paintings, a strong composition and a good narrative will lend a “voice” to your art that turns heads. Paint from your own reference material. Chuck’s layout reviews and demos will emphasize that once you have created an interesting narrative, it’s on to telling the story with composition.
Recommended experience level: all levels
Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $165.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, September 7th, 2019 - Sunday, September 8th, 2019 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Shaping Up Your Watercolor
Instructor: Charles Rouse
Charles uses value/shape method of painting to bring more life to your paintings and confidence as an artist. Charles will address all the fundamentals of brushes, paints, paper, application technique, layout, composition, and the acquiring of reference. He will show new ways to simplify and strengthen your work.
Recommended experience level: all levels
Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, September 9th, 2019 - Friday, September 13th, 2019 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Watercolor Secrets Revealed
Instructor Tom Lynch
Tom has a uniquely styled landscape painting style, strives for a level of excitement and drama that seems to push somewhere beyond what the environment naturally provides. Tom will assist in considering subjects searching for something striking, like sky color, light direction, shadow patterns, or sunlight glint on water. He embellishes those striking features to impact the viewer.
Recommended experience level: All levels
Non Members Fee: $590.00 Members Fee: $550.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, November 4th, 2019 - Thursday, November 7th, 2019 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Watercolor Block Prints
Instructor: Helen Shafer Garcia
Imagine the combination of relief block prints and watercolor. You will learn to design and carve images with little effort on a soft synthetic material suitable for print additions. These designs will build detail and strong lines for our watercolor painting using simple printmaking methods. Bright colors, lines, and shapes just pop immediately on the surface using fully charged dropped in watercolor pigments.
Recommended experience level: All levels
Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $165.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Saturday, November 9th, 2019 - Sunday, November 10th, 2019 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Abstract Acrylic Painting and Collage
Instructor: Bob Burridge
Recommended experience level: all levels
More Information Coming Soon!
Non Members Fee: $640.00 Members Fee: $600.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, January 13th, 2020 - Thursday, January 16th, 2020 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Plein Air
Instructor: Iain Stewart
Recommended experience level: all levels
More Information Coming Soon!
Non Members Fee: $540.00 Members Fee: $500.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, February 10th, 2020 - Thursday, February 13th, 2020 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Bridges/Urban Landscapes
Instructor: Antonio Masi
Recommended experience level: all levels
More Information Coming Soon!
Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, March 9th, 2020 - Thursday, March 12th, 2020 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Figurative impressionist
Instructor: Ted Nuttall
Recommended experience level: all levels
More Information Coming Soon!
Non Members Fee: $640.00 Members Fee: $600.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, April 6th, 2020 - Thursday, April 9th, 2020 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Landscapes/ Light
Instructor: Don Andrews
Recommended experience level: all levels
More Information Coming Soon!
Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, May 11th, 2020 - Thursday, May 14th, 2020 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Emotional Responses to Nature
Instructor: Frank Eber
Recommended experience level: all levels
More Information Coming Soon!
Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, June 8th, 2020 - Thursday, June 11th, 2020 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Expirmental/Aggressive Textures/Unusual Mediums
Instructor: Jan Stitts
Recommended experience level: all levels
More Information Coming Soon!
Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, July 13th, 2020 - Thursday, July 16th, 2020 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Impressions of Built, Natural, & Imagined Worlds
Instructor: Michael Reardon
Recommended experience level: all levels
More Information Coming Soon!
Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, August 10th, 2020 - Thursday, August 13th, 2020 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Portriature/ Figurative & Still Life
Instructor: Matthew Bird
Recommended experience level: all levels
More Information Coming Soon!
Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, September 7th, 2020 - Thursday, September 10th, 2020 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
Landscapes/Flowers/ Foliage
Instructor: Carol Carpenter
Recommended experience level: all levels
More Information Coming Soon!
Non Members Fee: $390.00 Members Fee: $300.00
This workshop takes place on:
| Date | Time | |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2020 - Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
