The Watercolorist: 2015

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

STILL LIFE WITH CONTIGUOUS COLOR SCHEME. September 17, 2015

Students painted still lifes using a contiguous color scheme. I got photos of only three paintings.

Keiko

Elena

Polar Bear

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

A VIEW THROUGH A WINDOW, October 1, 2015

Students did a view through a window. The object was to use the paint in a different way for inside vs. outside

Cybelle

Polar Bear

Antoanela

Michelle

Elena

Reba

Ioana

Antoanela did this view of light through leaves at home

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

PAINTING LEAVES, LINES AND FORM, September 10, 2015

In this first class, students painted leaves using a limited palette of ultramarine blue and burnt sienna. The first painting emphasized line, the second painting emphasized form.

1. Kathleen

2. Cebelle

3. Keiko

4. Reba

5. Reba

6. Antolanela

7. Polar Bear

8. Polar Bear

9. Michelle

10. Michelle

11. Masako

12. Elena

13. Elena

14. Masako

15. Cybelle

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

PAINTING A TURNER August 20, 2015

After doing an exercise to experiment with water and to practice layering colors, students used reproductions of W.M.F. Turner's oil paintings to make their own versions of "Turner's".

Debbie

Keiko (exercise)

Kathleen (exercise)

Debbie (exercise)

Kathleen

Genev

Keiko

Roxanne

URBAN LANDSCAPES August 13, 2015

In this class, students used photos to paint views of downtown San Jose from a high point of view. In preparing for this project, we looked at the works of Dong Kingman, Jacob Lawrence and Wayne Thiebaud.

Keiko

Kathleen

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

WHITE PINES LAKE IN COLOR July 30, 2015

In this third class of this session, students returned to the subject of White Pines Lake. The first class project was to paint a landscape in black and white. Now, returning to the same scene, students used color, emphasizing texture and contrast.