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Date: Tuesdays, April 1, 15, 29 & May 13, 2025
Time: 3:00-5:00 PM Pacific Time, 6:00-8:00 PM Eastern Time, 11:00 PM-1:00 AM London Time
Level: All
Medium: Ink & Watercolor
This class will focus on the beauty that birds create in the form of eggs, feathers, and nests. The variety of shapes, patterns, and colors provide endless artistic possibilities. We’ll use a variety of media, including pencil, ink, and watercolor to capture eggs, feathers, and nests. Each class will include background natural history to help inform your artwork, demonstrations of various techniques, and practice lessons. Optional weekly assignments will help you practice and build your skills.
Week 1: Eggs
We’ll start at the beginning by learning how eggs are made and why painting them with watercolor works so well. We’ll focus on making eggs look dimensional, keeping edges clean, and adding shadows and markings.
Week 2: Feathers
Learn about different types of feathers and then practice painting dark, light, and barred feathers in watercolor.
Week 3: Simple Nests
Learn about different types of nests and nest materials. Starting with simple nests, we’ll focus on making nests look dimensional. Then we’ll begin to look at how to approach complicated nesting materials as a lead into the final session.
Week 4: Complicated Nests
You’ll tackle a more complicated nest during this session, focusing on using negative drawing and painting techniques to build depth and complexity.
$295.00
Jean Mackay is an artist, educator, and naturalist. She has been keeping an artist journal for more than nearly 20 years as 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 in upstate New York, Jean’s watercolors reflect a keen eye for detail and profound sense of wonder. She is the author/illustrator of The Nature Explorer’s Sketchbook (2020). Jean teaches online and in-person classes and offers immersive workshops nationally and internationally. She has been an instructor with Winslow Art Center since 2020.
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