Watercolor Society of Oregon Workshop in October

Just letting anyone know there is space left to anyone interested!!!!

Myrna Wacknov Workshop - Day 2

This is where I was yesterday at about three.  decided better take a picture of it then before I ruin it.   Evaluating stage now - I did add a little more dark mid values and some detail so I'll take another photo tonight.  I'm going to try to get another one started this morning so  I'm going in early.  Great group of ladies and Myrna is just way to much fun!  She has the very same exact camera as mine so I also got a lesson on setting and tricks this camera preforms..... WHO knew?!!

 

Value Sketchs and light direction studies

 

Edit:  Myrna shows her version of "the San Diego Woman" on her blog here 

Myrna Wacknov Workshop - Day 1

Our workshop started with Myrna opening with her goals for what she expects to teach.  Lots of examples and discussion.  Our first entire day is spent finding a suitable image from our resources or hers.  My images I brought were pretty bad with stripes due printer ink supply so I will use one of  Myrna's.  We worked on reproducing our design and format after we worked on how to light our portrait.  I forgot to take photos of any of my thumbnail sketches so you'll just have to guess - see you all tomorrow.

Workshop Painting

I did this painting last month in the Salminen workshop at Cannon Beach. We had done the abstract project for the first three days and the last day and a half we were to work in our usual (more realistic) style but use the ideas from the beginning of the week. I had the painting drawn on the paper Friday morning and had even started painting when J.Salminen did his demonstration on reflections. The process is described in detail in his second video, Urban Landscape in Watercolor. As you can see, as a result of that demo on tail light reflections, I was able to transfer some of what he did to my table top reflections. You never know what, when, or how you are going to use information from workshops. This was immediately gratifying.