Workshop Information
This interactive online workshop will begin with warm up exercises with color to paint loose and flowing watercolors, using flowers as our subject. We can focus on creating color and discovering design with flowers and nature to inspire us. I will provide some photos of flowers for your use, but please feel free to have your own favorites or even real flowers – always helpful (I will probably have a few live ones also!)
We will then move into painting the portrait – discovering the use of color shifts to achieve translucent and glowing flesh tones. Experiencing an approach to the head will give us freedom to explore unexpected color and expression. We will focus of course on the features, flesh tones, hair, clothing & background in the portrait which will help us reach our goal of creating a painting that “breathes” - and using color changes to keep us excited by exploring our control of values for design impact. Students may use the photo or photos I will be working with or they can use their own. I will show you how to apply the watercolors - both with application on dry paper and wet areas.
Cost: Members: $225, Non-Members: $250
Recommended supplies:
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Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7409862189
Directions for Zoom or FB Live here.
About the Artist
Janet Rogers has been a working professional artist for overt 35 years, and has achieved Signature Status in The American Watercolor Society, The Florida Watercolor Society, South Carolina Watercolor Society and others. She has garnered many awards over the years for her sensitive paintings of people which are spontaneous, direct, and expressive. Janet shares easily with others her passion and joy for the fluid and unexpected nature of watercolor.
Her workshops and demonstrations featuring impressions of people and also flowers are very popular across the United States, Canada, and in Europe. Four instructional and inspiring DVDs - “Expressive Watercolor Florals”, “Expressive Watercolor Portraits”, “Watercolor Rhythms with Figures”, and “Expressing the Bouquet in Watercolor” are also available.
Janet also has been featured in watercolor painting videos on You Tube., as well as a delightful new Interview on YouTube.
You can view her work at http://www.watercolorsbyrogers.com and you may also join one of her online classes and workshops.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“I love the qualities of watercolor – its fluid nature. To me, the interaction of artist with the medium is like a dance – full of motion, feeling and expression. I love to watch the painting develop and to discover new color and composition.
As a teacher, I would like to enable students to find their connections with watercolor in new and expressive ways.”
Janet Rogers, AWS