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Catherine Hillis – Water, Sky, Land: Plein Air Painting In Watercolors (Online); Mondays, May 2-23, 2022

This class was held in the past and is no longer available for registration. Please view our Online Course Catalog for current class listings.

Date: This class has been postponed due to a family emergency.
Time: 9:30 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Time, 12:30-3:00 PM Eastern Time, 5:30-8:00 PM London Time
Level: All
Medium: Watercolor

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In this four-week class with acclaimed watercolor artist Catherine Hillis, you will learn the essentials from the safety and comfort of your own home so you can paint outdoors in this fluid medium.

Catherine will explain equipment, discussing what supplies are best to use in the field and how they differ from items used in your studio.  Learn to observe nature and simplify the landscape into connected shapes.  The first class will included multiple demonstrations of skies.  The second class will focus on foliage, fields and flowers.  The third session will include water and reflections.  Catherine will work from photographs taken in the field but will demonstrate her technique live.  The fourth session, Catherine will critique student work and answer your final questions.

Catherine Hillis has always been an achiever in the arts   As a youngster, she won awards for her artwork and she acted and modeled in print and television ads, later majoring in theater. As a young adult, she worked as a costume designer and actress in repertory theatre.

Hillis moved from the theatre arts to visual art  during the 80’s.  She paints in all mediums but her favorite is watercolors because of its transparency and  immediacy.  The artist finds herself drawn to scenes that are neglected, finding intrinsic beauty in the most forgotten of places.

Working both outdoors and in the studio, she travels extensively to plein air competitions including Cape Ann Plein AirSedona Plein Air; Telluride Plein Air in 2020, Easels in Frederick; Los Gatos Plein Air; Paint Annapolis; Parrsboro Plein Air, Nova Scotia; Curacao Plein Air; Winter Park Plein Air Invitational; Paint the Peninsula; Plein Air Painters of the Southeast; Bucks County Plein Air and Finger Lakes, New York.   The artist’s biography has been included in Who’s Who Among American Women since 2006. www.catherinehillis.com

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