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for Master Disaster/Fresh Paths in Watercolor
"I can't
tell you how much I learned in this course, and when I came I
thought I knew everything!" anonymous in Idaho
"What I
learned the first day was worth the price of the whole workshop."
Larry
"This workshop
is worth more than any five workshops that you have ever gone
to--combined!" Gemevieve
"It was
one of the most influential workshops I have taken." Fran
"This was the most
inspiring workshop I have attended. You have given me the "no
fear" attitude toward art, especially my own!" Jeannine,
WVWS president
Fresh Paths in
Watercolor:
5 Strategies for Success
(developed from my course, "Master Disaster")
Appropriate for all Levels,
as long as everyone has a familiarity with watercolor.
4 or 5 days
What makes an outstanding painting? Clean, vibrant colors, an
organized palette, great design that truly fills the page, and
that secret ingredient turns a painting into fine art-content.
Learn the secret to cleanly removing muddy colors and mistakes.
Discover how to design empty, boring areas. Develop an amazing
tool to organize your color strategies and define your value
patterns.
Through a lively balance
of demos, digital presentations, discussions, one-on-one conferences
and plenty of individual help discover content.
Many have called this
the best workshop that they have ever taken. By teaching you
the vocabulary of success, you will go home charged, confident
and ready to take a fresh path.
Susan is an award winner
and signature member of NWS, TWSA, the Watercolor USA Honor Society,
as well as the author of the North Light book and DVD, Master
Disaster. Her current series of paintings, "Once Upon a
Time there were Free-Range Children," is being featured
in two solo museum exhibitions, supported by a grant from the
NC Council of the Arts.
More about "Fresh Paths in Watercolor: 5 Strategies for
Success"
This course is built to
inspire confidence in new and experienced artists painting in
any media. Never again will you ask yourself "what should
I paint" or "now what do I with this painting!"
One very experienced artist told me how much she learned from
the course, and added "and when I came I thought that I
knew everything!" This is what she and many, many others
have learned.
1. Learn my secret technique for correcting and adjusting your
painting.
2. Learn how to creatively deal with boring spaces
3. Learn what makes "mud" and dead colors, how to avoid
them, and how to use color strategies to express content.
4. Create an indispensible "flip book" for organizing
both color and design strategies.
5. Learn what is content and why it is the secrete ingredient
in fine art.
Through painting, demos,
discussions, power-point programs, and one-on-ones, we will work
though these five simple steps to take any painting to a full-bodied,
exciting completion. Throughout this course artists will be experimenting
on a couple of unfinished paintings. Ugly, problematic paintings
are the best! Then everyone will go on to create paintings in
their own style and areas of interest.
Based on my book and DVD, Master Disaster, Five Ways to Rescue
Desperate Watercolors [North Light, 2007], this course is different
from any other workshop that you have taken. One student even
remarked that it was better than any 5 workshops that she had
taken combined.
Due to allergies, this course is taught in watercolor, but the
strategies and the confidence that they inspire apply to all
artists in every media. The following is a outline of a typical
4 day workshop. Five day workshops are truly a gift which allows
time for creating and completing one or more paintings while
pumping me for advice and reassurance.
For more information,
email me at susan@tregay.com.
My work can be seen at
www.tregay.com,
and my newest work can be enjoyed at www.SusanWebbTregay.com
Two Fresh Paths
to Painting: Color Strategies and Content
1 day course
All Levels, as long as everyone has a familiarity with their
favorite media.
What makes an outstanding painting? Two or the most important
aspects of art are an organized palette, and that secret ingredient
turns a painting into fine art-content.
Through a lively balance of demos, digital presentations, discussions,
and plenty of individual help discover content, we will explore
and internalize these aspects. By teaching you the vocabulary
of success, you will go home charged, confident and ready to
take a fresh path.
Other
Workshop Themes to choose from:
"Color
and Design Strategies,
Take your painting to new heights in three days."
Study the color plans that have created masterpieces throughout
the ages. By pushing your painting toward one of these strategies,
you will learn to organize your palette, express moods and content
and pull your paintings together. Create mature, unified and
polished works. Discover how to avoid "mud."
Then explore
value and design strategies to take a boring painting beyond
what you ever dreamed possible. Value strategies are by far the
strongest way to create remarkable paintings. Learn that you
can push a painting toward one of these strategies at any stage
of the work. You will finish a bomb of a painting and create
a reference "flip book" that will become your painting
bible. Learn to paint not like me, but like yourself--only better.
(3 days, all levels, all media)
"Content
through Color Strategies, Fracturing and Borders."
Content, putting yourself
and your ideas into your paintings, is difficult for some to
fathom harder to teach. This course approaches content in a manageable,
concrete way that will open new doors of creativity for you.
Through the study of the color plans that have created masterpieces,
you will learn to reinforce the mood of your painting. By fracturing
and creating borders, you will make separate areas for additional
thoughts and information about your topic. Content. Content is
everything. Content is what makes a painting a work of art. (4-5
day workshop)
"Paint
on Location/Polish in the Studio"
Painting outside
is both invigorating and overwhelming. The work that most of
us do on location comes out either weak or very similar to most
other location paintings. This course is designed to address
these three problems. Learn to enjoy painting outside. Learn
to create gutsy and unusual paintings, and then carry these lessons
into a series of paintings from your references.
Each day you will sit in a lovely location, absorb its ambience,
and study it for unusual perspectives. Then, returning to the
studio, we will brainstorm and develop numerous possible designs
and color strategies to create unique "landscapes."
(4-5 days)
"Painting
Quick Travel Masterpieces"
This workshop
will give you the confidence to sketch while traveling. Broken
up into five individual steps, this sketching style can fit beautifully
into your travel constraints. The course can be taught outside
at your location, or bring me along on a trip--I love to travel
and spend serious time with students and artists. See my China and Italian sketches for some ideas. Create memories to go!
"Watercolor 101,
Jump Start Your Art"
You can learn to use this vibrant,
portable media in "Watercolor 101," a 2-4 day workshop.And
learn not to fear it, for corrections can and will be made at
any point in your paintings.
But don't limit yourself to the technical aspects of the media.
Through discussions, slides and a project, we will explore "content"--what
makes a painting a work of art. You will leave this course with
a plan for future growth, how to work in a series. This introduction
to watercolor is also an introduction to becoming an artist.
All of these
courses have been taught from Vancouver, B. C. to Beaufort, S.C.,
from to Wisconsin to the Asociacion Acuarelistas de Puerto Rico.
With two degrees in education,
I love teaching and pride myself in it. Due to my teaching experience
in a very progressive school system, I am better able to meet
the needs of a wide variety of artists. You will return to your
studios with concrete skills and "Flip Books" that
will be your foundation for continued growth. With a Master's
Degree in Learning and Behavioral Disorders, trust me, I can
teach anyone and handle any classroom management "challenge."
If I need to fly to your location, travel cost and time is a
major problem. 4 or 5 day workshops (or combinations of workshops)
are the best bet for both your organization and myself. To discuss
the wonderful possibilities that I can offer, call me at 828
693-0553 or write me at susan@tregay.com