Beginning Watercolor Workshops

Sketch in the City (New York)
   Thursday & Friday, May 27 & 28, 2010 Rain or Shine (Shelter available)
         The 2nd Annual New York Sketch in the City -- a 2-day plein air drawing workshop focusing on buildings, architectural details, perspective, sighting angles and proportion.
      This is a special opportunity to become more comfortable working “in the field” and improve skills that will benefit all areas of your drawing.

                   Thursday: The Cloisters- outside and inside
                       Friday: Central Park-The Lake Bridge, Bethesda Fountain and Arcade & Belvedere Castle
                                                                                  Tuition $250 (includes admission to The Cloisters)
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
June 1-4, 2010 Tuesday-Friday 4 full days Grafton, New York

        Based on the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Dr. Betty Edwards you will learn the basic strategies of seeing that enable you to draw your perceptions clearly and accurately. You will learn to “turn off” the dominant left hemisphere, which interferes with drawing because of what it knows, and “turn on” the non-dominant right hemisphere that sees clearly and can draw beautifully. You will learn a set of “tools” that will serve you well in all future drawing experiences. It is great fun and you will be truly amazed.   No previous art experience is necessary!

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Drawing and Painting Flowers in Watercolor
June 21-25, 2010 5 days Grafton, New York (Beg-Int)

This workshop has an expanded drawing component that Ann has been developed for beginning and intermediate art students who want to break through to a new level of drawing flowers for watercolor. Through a unique combination of blind contour, contour and gesture drawing, students experience increased perception and facility in drawing flowers-a facility that will carry over into their painting. Through a variety of techniques that make transferring their drawings to watercolor paper possible students will experience a freedom from the anxiety often experienced when painting a drawing done on watercolor paper. After having studied the flowers closely through drawing, we'll see what happens when we cut loose and paint without drawing. Having reached a new depth of understanding through drawing we'll go on to invent and explore different painting possibilities in a safe and supportive atmosphere.

There will be a special section of negative painting, and an abundance of live flowers. Bring your own photos if you have them. Ann's comprehensive reference file will be available. Intermediate students may also set up and light their own arrangements.

An exciting workshop that introduces the absolute beginner to the methods and ways of seeing needed to draw and paint portraits in watercolor, this beginning portrait workshop is fun & enlightening for the beginner and intermediate student alike. Basic portraiture concepts are introduced: proportion, seeing values, shadow shapes. You will work from photographs of your own family and the workshop reference file. No previous art experience is necessary. Honest!

Winter Landscape & Holiday Cards
          November 21 & 22, 2010 Week-end, Berlin, NY

            A fun-filled week-end spent painting the winter landscape and its various elements-bare trees, night skies, falling snow, snow covered pines…On Sunday we add more symbols of the season-stars, candles, birds, animals, angels -whatever images strike our fancy and learn a variety of ways to make our own holiday cards. Always full of new watercolor and card making and embellishing techniques. Make your own personal greetings to send loved ones-they will love them!

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Intermediate and advanced students can always count on supportive independent instruction in any of the workshops.

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