Sketching with Watercolor
with artist/instructor Brenda Swenson
Dates: Three days: Friday, Saturday & Sunday, September 26, 27 & 28, 2008
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm each day
Fee: $250
Payment: Your place in the sketching workshop will be reserved in order of receipt of payment. Space is limited to 14. Make check payable to: Brenda Swenson.
Mail to: Brenda Swenson, 514 El Centro St, So. Pasadena, CA 91030
Register: Contact Brenda at (626) 441-6562 or email brenda@swensonsart.net.
Materials Supply List: A supply list will be sent to you upon receipt of full payment.
Instructor’s website: www.swensonsart.net
Description:
Enjoy the charming, loose, and colorful nature of watercolor at its best, sketching! Sharpen your observation skills, color awareness and learn simple design principles. Each day we’ll explore various sketching tools, techniques and papers. Learn how a sketch can be complete in itself, or a road map to larger studio paintings. Whether you want to improve your skills, create travel journals or take that next step as an artist you will come away from this workshop excited and inspired about your artwork. Benefit from daily demonstrations, friendly critiques, and lots of one on one help.
About Your Instructor
An active participant in the arts community, Brenda has served on the board of directors for the National Watercolor Society and Watercolor West. Her paintings and sketches have been featured in Watercolor Magazine (2000, 2004), Watercolor Highlights (2006), Quarterly Magazine, Wheels of Time and numerous other publications.
She is the artist author of Keeping a Watercolor Sketchbook, an Award of Excellence Finalist. Her newest book – Steps to Success in Watercolor – is due for release in June 2007. She has received numerous awards for her painting and is in demand to demonstrate her watercolor techniques to groups and to teach watercolor workshops.
To see more of Brenda’s work, visit her website: www.swensonsart.net
See also: Steps to Success with Watercolor – 3-day Workshop with Brenda Swenson.
