Description
Interpret your observations of the coastal Pacific Northwest environment to create abstract art that is wholly your own. You’ll expand your artist’s eye by learning different ways of seeing, loosen your grip on realism, and move into an exploration of essence. Starting in small format and moving larger in an iterative approach, you’ll lean into different mediums, including watercolor, graphite, oil pastel, and cut paper, to personally express the magic of the landscape. Meg shares examples and creative process methods that can free your hand and strengthen your visual voice.
Materials List
You will need to bring:
Smartphone with digital camera or other digital camera device such as an iPad. Photographing in the field can be the sole or supplemental source material for the workshop’s studio time.
Participants may bring whatever they normally use for outdoor, informal field sketching such as portable sketchbook, watercolors, pencils, pastels, etc. Sketching in the field can be the sole or supplemental source material for the workshop’s studio time.
All other course materials and supplies are provided by the instructor.
Provided by instructors:
Water soluble oil pastels
Oil pastels
Graphite crayons
Charcoal
Liquid acrylic
Watercolor
Gouache
Brushes
Papers: small and larger format multimedia papers including postcard and tile sizes, canvas paper, Rives BFK, colored papers
Informational handouts with key points, supply sources, and reading list