About the Instructor — Steve Rogers AWS, NWS, TWSA:
His paintings have won hundreds of awards in juried competitions including the National Watercolor Society Purchase Award -“Best of Show” in 2006 and four awards in the American Watercolor Society. Steve is a Signature Member of the American Watercolor Society and was an Ambassador/Director of AWS and is also a Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society and Transparent Watercolor Society of America. He was the National Invited Juror for the 2007 AWS Exhibition where he served on the Jury of Selection. He was the Chairman of the Jury of Awards for the 2010 AWS Exhibition and he was Juror and sole Awards Judge for TWSA . Steve’s work has been featured in the magazines Watercolor Magazine, Watercolor Magic, International Artist, l'Art de l'Aquaelle, the Art of Watercolor, Pratique des Arts and the books Expressing the Visual Language of the Landscape, Secrets from the Contemporary Watercolor Masters - vol. 1 (in Chinese), The One Hour Watercolorist, and a Gallery of Marine Art, as well as two best - selling DVD’s – 7 Secrets of Painting Reflections in Watercolor and The Secrets of Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor.
About the Demo:
From the artist: My painting is grounded in realism, but it goes beyond portraying the physical reality and seeks to communicate the emotional and spiritual beauty of God’s creation. I paint in a straightforward manner in transparent watercolor on paper. The first and foremost secret is to paint with honesty. I set out to paint a truthful representation of the scene I have chosen. I want to communicate the feeling of late afternoon sunlight, or quietly disturbed water I am not trying to do the camera’s job of recording the facts of a place. I am painting the presence and sense of what I felt when I was there. While I paint and sketch on location to drink in the ambiance and become familiar with my subject, the majority of my paintings are done from the thousands of slides and digital images I take and later view while painting back at my studio. I am able to capture the first light of daybreak or some other fleeting effect. My painting is really of my memory of the place-It's color and light.