San Diego Watercolor Society

From Sketchbook to Studio - Painting Light in Watercolor

Instructor:  Iain Stewart

Explore the medium of watercolor in a relaxing and creative environment. Award winning watercolorist, Iain Stewart's, sole focus will be bringing your creativity to light and aiding you in dispelling the myths of the difficulties of painting in this wonderful medium. Given the right encouragement and understanding of the basic fundamentals, watercolor is a creative outlet unmatched for its ease of use, cost of materials, and pure enjoyment of artistic expression. 

Experience Level:  All levels

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Non Members Fee: $440.00 Members Fee: $400.00

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Matting and Framing

Instructors:  Denise Tverdoch and Susan Hewitt

Save time and money by doing your own framing.  In this one day workshop we will teach the basics of matting and framing for gallery exhibition.  You will learn about framing options, acceptable matting and glazing.  Multiple mounting techniques, including floating, will be covered.  Mat cutting, double mats, multiple openings – you will have the opportunity to learn it all.

Limited enrollment will provide plenty of time for hands-on practice.

Experience Level:  all levels

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Non Members Fee: $75.00 Members Fee: $75.00

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Workshop is full.  If you wish to be on the Wait List, please contact SDWS at sdwsregistrar@gmail.com.

Matting and Framing

Instructors:  Denise Tverdoch and Susan Hewitt

Save time and money by doing your own framing.  In this one day workshop we will teach the basics of matting and framing for gallery exhibition.  You will learn about framing options, acceptable matting and glazing.  Multiple mounting techniques, including floating, will be covered.  Mat cutting, double mats, multiple openings – you will have the opportunity to learn it all.

Limited enrollment will provide plenty of time for hands-on practice.

Experience Level:  all levels

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Non Members Fee: $75.00 Members Fee: $75.00

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Love of Life: Nature and Culture Through the Whitaker's Art

Instructor:  Ken Goldman

In the early 80’s, after Fred Whitaker had died, Ken was a close artist friend to Eileen and they critiqued each others art work. He will offer insights into some of their artistic conversations and the comments they gave to one another.

 

 Ken will begin his worksop with a one hour Keynote presentation titled Dance To Your Own Tune; Adhere To Your Own Style  Ken will share his favorite Whitaker paintings plus analysis and commentary on Fred and Eileen’s design strategies and artistic cross-influences.

 

Recomended experience level:  all levels

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Non Members Fee: $110.00 Members Fee: $95.00

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Abstract Acrylic Painting and Collage

Instructor:  Robert Burridge

Creative tearing and paint splashing starts off this all new “Loosen Up Workshop.”  Also you will learn how to begin a new fresh body of work with your own artistic voice and point of view. Think “artist retreat,” producing a body of work, a series of paintings or your conceptual solo show.

Experience Level:  All levels

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Non Members Fee: $540.00 Members Fee: $500.00

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From Sketches to Masterpieces

Instructor Shuang Li

Focusing on composition and design, during this workshop you will use sketches and reference materials
for your composition, select shapes, lights, colors, and other visual elements into your composition, create
dramatic atmosphere compositions, and turn your own sketches into well-designed successful paintings.

Recommended experience level:  all levels

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Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00

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All That Glitters

Instructor:  Barbara Fox

Barbara will teach advanced watercolor techniques to achieve realistic effects. Using a still life and photographs, participants will learn how to plan a still life painting, and to use the technique of layering washes to build color and contrasts, painting glass and/or metal, and the texture and color of fruits and flowers.

Recommended experience level:  This workshop is designed for those who are familiar with the basic techniques of watercolor painting.

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Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00

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Experimental Watermedia Workshop

Instructor:  Stephen Quiller

The emphasis of this workshop will be color and experimental watermedia in acrylic and gouache with some graulating watercolor. We will begin using acrylic as a water medium and as the week progresses introduce gouache as a translucent and opaque overlay and the last day combine these media with granulating watercolor.  During the five day workshop artists will be in the studio and we will focus on color, color mixing and color relationships in acrylic and gouache.

Experience Level:  All levels

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Non Members Fee: $590.00 Members Fee: $550.00

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Finding Success Through Composition and Glazing

Instructor:  Chuck McPherson

This workshop is designed for painters who seek more from their paintings! Strong composition and depth of color lend a “voice” to your art that will turn heads. Paint from your own reference material, guided by Chuck’s layout review at the beginning of class.

Experience Level:  All levels

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Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00

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Be Brave!

Instructor:  Rich Hawk

Do you want to paint more intuitively, paint with flow, freedom, and ease of expression, within a solid design framework? Understand values? In this class learn to create solid compositions and successfully use negative space.

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Non Members Fee: $265.00 Members Fee: $235.00

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Sunlight, Shade, and Shadow

Instructor:  Linda A. Doll

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.

Experience Level:  All Levels

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Non Members Fee: $390.00 Members Fee: $350.00

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Bold Painting with a Big Brush!

Instructor:  Craig Anderson

Learn how to be a more confident artist, create loose watercolors and have fun doing it. The workshop will include what defines a great painting and the steps involved to go from concept to completion. Learn to use more vivid colors and construct darker values in your paintings. Increase the number of keepers in your portfolio.

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Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00

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California Vibe Watercolor Portraiture

Instructor:  David Lobenberg

In this workshop you will learn watercolor portraiture that goes beyond the norm with super expressive
paint applications and wildly intense colors. Six successive steps will be emphasized during the workshop to enable you to follow your own path towards success.

Recommended experience level:  all levels

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Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00

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Poured Painted Surfaces

Instructor: Helen Shafer Garcia

Putting paint on paper can be a mixed bag of unexpected surprises. Pouring paint onto paper creates combos of astonishing, intense and luminescent colors. Discover ways to define the space around shapes with contrast and glazed colors. Reveal some of the underlying imagery of shapes with watercolors, acrylics, and gouache.

Recommended experience level:  all levels

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Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00

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Textures in Watercolour

Instructor:  Angus McEwan

The aim of the workshop is to realise the true potential of watercolour in its ability to describe unique surface characteristics of different objects (from life).The utilization of numerous applications will be explored to help the students uncover the many possibilities available within the media. We will also study the methods used by Andrew Wyeth and apply those techniques to photographic reference material.

Recomended experience level:  all levels

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Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00

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Paintings Full of Texture

Instructor:  Kathleen Scoggin

This workshop focuses on creating various types of texture on paper, canvas or board using acrylic paint and acrylic inks. You may use watercolor if you wish. Design and Composition will be explored as part of the process. From these textured starts, abstract or more realistic paintings will be developed.

Recommended Experience Level:  All levels

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Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00

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Abstraction by Design

Instructor:  John Salminen

The workshop will focus on abstraction, encouraging representational painters to experiment with a different style and challenging experienced abstract painters to explore new possibilities in expressing their creative voices. Demonstrations, critiques and lots of individual help will be given.

Recommended experience level:  Advanced

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Non Members Fee: $590.00 Members Fee: $550.00

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A Critique with Jim Millard

SDWS folks know Jim Millard as “the Professor” for his award-winning watercolors and expertise in teaching. Bring in two or three of your paintings that you feel are not quite successful.  For a small group of 12 attendees, Jim will evaluate, demo and suggest solutions to improve your work.  A serious critique is a key to improving your future paintings. 

All Levels

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Non Members Fee: $110.00 Members Fee: $95.00

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Watercolor Workshop

Instructor:  Frank Francese

Nature, country, city, beach and natures moods (storms , etc.) are all painted during this workshop. Frank includes two daily demonstrations in which design, color, and values are explored. Daily critique at 3pm. A good attitude is a must.

Recommended experience level:  all levels

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Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00

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Capturing Light and Atmosphere en Plein Air

Instructor:  Keiko Tanabe

All Levels
In this workshop, Keiko explains how to tackle basic outdoor elements as well as key artistic elements to build a painting that is simple and strong in composition, content, and helps invoke a certain mood. One-on-one uidance is given and a group critique conducted at the end of day.

Recommended experience level:  all levels

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Non Members Fee: $490.00 Members Fee: $450.00

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Watercolor Portraits

Instructor:  Nancy Oleksa

An unusual Watercolor portrait class whose focus is the understanding and application of the color wheel to add depth and expression in portrait painting. Concentration will be on the features of the face alone, to maximize expression and depth while keeping the painting’s colors clean and bright.

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Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00

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