Dates: Thursdays, March 23, April 6, April 27 & May 11, 2023
Time: 3:00-5:00 PM Pacific Time/6:00-8:00 PM Eastern Time/ (March 23 session 10:00 PM-12:00 AM London time) April 6, April 27 & May 11 – 11:00 PM-1:00 AM London Time
Level: All
Medium: Ink & Watercolor
Watch spring unfold with a heightened awareness of color during this watercolor series focusing on in-depth color exploration, experimentation, and practice. We’ll paint a variety of spring nature subjects, including flowers, birds, and butterflies, concentrating on a specific color in each session so you can get to know your palette and gain confidence with mixing clean, vibrant colors. Each class will include an overview of pigments, color play and mixing, and a focal piece that showcases the dominant color. This series gives you the flexibility to sign up for one or more sessions, with a discount for choosing all four.
March 23: Earth Colors – Early spring is still full of browns and grays. Explore earth colors and discover great mixes using burnt and raw sienna, burnt umber, and yellow ochre. We’ll sketch American robins and paint a robin’s nest as our focal piece.
April 6: Yellow – Get to know warm and cool yellows and experiment with mixing tricky yellow shadow colors on spring wildflowers and butterflies. We’ll paint forsythia as our focal piece.
April 27: Green – The color that best exemplifies spring often leaves painters mystified. We’ll mix lots of greens and learn more about “convenience” greens. We’ll also experiment with splashes of green for foliage and work on a focal piece of ferns unfolding using negative painting techniques.
May 11: Blue and Violet – Both standing alone and when mixed, blues are often the workhorses of nature painting. We’ll consider which blues to choose for moody skies, bright violets, and lively shadows and then paint a bluebird as the focal piece.
Jean Mackay is an artist, educator, and naturalist. She has been keeping an artist journal for more than nearly 20 years a way to study and share the beauty and diversity of nature, as well as to record the art of everyday living. Working in all kinds of settings, from tide pools to farm fields to her own backyard, Jean’s journals reflect a keen eye for detail and profound sense of wonder. Jean teaches at the Hog Island Audubon Camp in Maine and at the Art School of Columbia County in New York. Her blog, Drawn In, shares the ordinary, yet extraordinary things that she encounters close to home and farther afield. www.jeanmackayart.com
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