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.
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| Education Center | The occasional plein-air workshops are held outdoors on location. |
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
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.
Non Members Fee: $265.00 Members Fee: $235.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Saturday, April 21st, 2018 - Sunday, April 22nd, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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
Non Members Fee: $440.00 Members Fee: $400.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Monday, May 7th, 2018 - Thursday, May 10th, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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.
Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Saturday, May 19th, 2018 - Sunday, May 20th, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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
Non Members Fee: $540.00 Members Fee: $500.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Monday, June 11th, 2018 - Thursday, June 14th, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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
Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Saturday, June 23rd, 2018 - Sunday, June 24th, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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
Non Members Fee: $540.00 Members Fee: $500.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Monday, July 9th, 2018 - Thursday, July 12th, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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
Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Saturday, July 21st, 2018 - Sunday, July 22nd, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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: All Levels
Non Members Fee: $640.00 Members Fee: $600.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Monday, August 13th, 2018 - Friday, August 17th, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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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
Non Members Fee: $110.00 Members Fee: $95.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Saturday, August 18th, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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
Non Members Fee: $540.00 Members Fee: $500.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Monday, September 10th, 2018 - Friday, September 14th, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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
Non Members Fee: $540.00 Members Fee: $500.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Monday, November 12th, 2018 - Thursday, November 15th, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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.
Non Members Fee: $180.00 Members Fee: $155.00
This workshop takes place on:
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| Saturday, November 17th, 2018 - Sunday, November 18th, 2018 | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM | Login and sign up |
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