Workshop Possibilities

 

 

Besides being full of content, my workshops hope to build confidence, give encouragement, inspiration, poetry and fun.

 Workshops with concentrated lessons on:

• Color: harmony, theory, and mixing

• Values: using contrast for power in your work

• Composing and designing your paintings with care, intention, and intuition

• Design with photos, sketches and imagination

• Technique: glazing, dry brush, wet-in-wet etc.

• Tricks of the trade

• Drawing: pure and simple

Workshops include:

• Demonstrations - Discussions

• Basic instruction in Transparent Watercolor

• Experimental challenges

• Freedom and encouragement to be your own creative self

• Pushing for your own artistic growth

• Lots of handouts

Great Paintings Have Great Design

I paint many subjects, but to me, it's all about design.  No mater the subject, real or abstract, my main concern is the composition.  In my workshops, we will spend much time on design.  Design can encompass virtually  any style from non-objective abstract to the most detailed reality. It is never my objective in a class to influence your preferred style...only to enhance it.

Learn to make better choices early on in your work.

Everyone Starts as a Beginner

• It works just fine to have a mixed group of students. Often groups consist of a few fairly inexperienced people to quite professional. Everyone learns from everyone.  Me too.

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• Most of my workshops are not for total beginners.  You at least need to know how to put paint on your palette and have painted a few watercolors. 

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• However, I could and would take on total beginners - if it's the whole group. In that case, we would start at the very beginning.

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• I believe art is an eternal challenge.  You never reach perfection, but you never want to stop reaching.  We all fit in there somewhere.

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• The objective of my workshops is to take growth steps toward your own personal goals - No matter how far along the artistic journey you are today.

A Message from John                              22"x30"

                    Concentrates                                     9"x9"

Slat-Backs                                                        22"x30"

If Your Group is Interested in Workshops

Please feel free to contact me either by e-mail or phone.  It is easy to just talk about the possibilities   with no obligations.   Click on the Contact Me button

 

 

Future Workshops:

• Museum of Eastern Idaho               May 20-24, 2008 Contact Museum: 208-524-7777

• Kansas Watercolor Society  October 13-15, 2008     Contact Wichita Center for the Arts -                            Kathy Sweeney 316-634-2787 ext 219                              or Kansas Watercolor Society:                                      Carol Ranney 316-263-0984 

• Art in the Ouachita Mountains - Hot Springs, Arkansas, October 19-23, 2009                                                 Contact Vanessa Segraves, 239-250-8339                   email: vanessa@livenaples.com                      

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