Class Description: Poplar Dunes: 1/2-day Watercolor Workshop with Cedar Kindy
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I love the poplar trees that survive on the dunes and frame the vistas of Lake Michigan. This is a great beginner class to learn how to paint a basic landscape: background, middle ground, and foreground. It also covers all the fundamental watercolor techniques of wet-on-wet, dry brush, wet-on-dry, salt for texture, accenting with gouache, and even painting with a straw! Don’t draw? No worries, because this painting consists of a few simple vertical and horizontal lines. All taught by step-by-step demonstrations, so it is easy to follow along and learn the basics of watercolor landscape painting.
All Levels - ages 18 +
All supplies provided!
Cedar Kindy
Bio:
Janet ”Cedar” Kindy, a graduate of the American Academy of Art in Chicago, has been painting for over 40 years. She is passionate about watercolor and changing it’s bad rap about being a difficult medium. Using her teaching format, anyone can paint a successful watercolor…and have fun doing so.
Artist Statement:
I am an accidental watercolorist. I studied classical oil painting. Traveling extensively, I began to painting plein air in watercolor because of its portability. My first watercolors were horrible; hundreds of paintings later, while studying with Nita Engle, I finally developed a feel for the medium…and fell in love. Water, it’s primary element, makes watercolor a wild and emotional experience like no other type of painting.