Breaking Down the Landscape In Watercolor
with Lindsay Isenhart
Saturday, March 15 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Ages 16 – Adult $55 ($50 Members)
This class is designed for beginner level painters who want to prepare themselves to sketch the landscape either when traveling, plein air, or to create small simple watercolors from their own photographs. We will break down the landscape composition into simple elements and learn to layer, glaze, and resist watercolor for short bursts of painting. Multiple small compositions will be in progress at once. You may bring your own photographs or inspiration to use in addition to provided resources. Students may bring any watercolor paints or brushes that they may have, or use the materials provided for the class. Watercolor paper journals are provided. We will break for lunch about 12:00.

Watercolor Workshop with Lori Eslick
Saturday, February 8 9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Ages 16 – Adult $75 ($65 Members)
In most good (landscape) paintings there is a story, a person finding home, their ‘home’, or a place that they love. As a picture book illustrator, I have been placing children, people, families in a place that they love, frankly: that I love, in the beauty of our natural world.
We are going to be world making. In other words: we will create a world for our model (your photo) to live in. Your person/pet that you will paint, could even be a pet (if you don’t wish to paint a human) will be in a landscape/cityscape/beach, where ever you choose. Our day of painting will explore the ideas of how a landscape painting is able to be enhanced with more life in it. We as painters, can make a world for them, a beautiful place. Like a landscape, like being at the ocean or Lake Michigan (for us West Michigan painters), and while walking on that beach, the painting can take a viewer there.
Lori will do demos as we work on our painting together during the day. You will walk away from our class with 2 watercolor finished paintings, and one big smile of accomplishments! Student need to bring a photo(s) of a person/pet, to use for your reference…and a photo(s) of a landscape.