Description

Learn how to represent the many landscapes of the west with watercolor and watermedia. We’ll study coastal forests, canyonlands, grasslands, deserts and alpine habitats. You will discover ways to simplify subjects, like eroded canyons and cliffs, adding texture when plants and rocky slopes require it.We’ll work loosely with sketchbook media, and continue to more finished watercolors. Diverse cloud forms and skies will serve as the grounds for our finished watercolors, which we will build, often layer by layer.

About the Instructor

Molly Hashimoto teaches around the west, with a focus on natural history and landscapes of the west.

She is a watercolor artist, illustrator and printmaker, and her work has been published for many years by Pomegranate Communications. She is the author and illustrator of five titles for Mountaineers Books, Colors of the West, Mt. Rainier: An Artist’s Tour, Birds of the West, Trees of the West, and the newly released Wildflowers of the West. She is at work on a new title about the west for Mountainners Books; release date will be 2027.

Materials List

Provided by instructors:

Watercolor pencils, tube watercolors that are not on the list, some papers