Northwest Landscapes - Beginning

Learn to paint landscapes inspired by the Northwest palette with a bold, fresh approach.   Work on new images and continue to expand your skills.  Develop an understanding of key steps to creating strong compositions through thumbnail sketches, value studies and exploring color strategies prior to working on larger paintings.  Gain knowledge about mixing transparent, staining and opaque pigments to achieve beautiful washes, build layers of rich colors and preserve the light in your composition.  Emphasis will be on how to create a personal interpretation of the land through simplification and honing in on what is most important.   Inspiration will be gained from demonstrations, visual reference photos and viewing the works of master watercolorists. 

Note for Beginners:  If you are not ready to invest in the set of pigments on the supply list, I have some palettes set-up with watercolor pigments that you can borrow.  The supply cost for the pigments and palette would be $50.  You will be responsible for bringing the other supplies on the list.