NEW WATERCOLOR CLASS
Wednesdays, 9:30am—12pm
INSTRUCTOR: TERRY DENSON
Beginners/Intermediate
$80 monthly (4 classes)
Terry Denson is a popular artist and experienced instructor. She regularly teaches workshops and classes in southwest Florida. She displays her work in art festivals and exhibition throughout Florida nationwide, where she frequently wins awards. She is a signature member of the Kentucky Watercolor Society and the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society and an active member and demonstrator in the Florida Watecolor Society
Beginners will have a structured approach to learning watercolor, including correct use and varieties of materials, paint and brushes.
Classes will cover the application of smooth, graded and variegated washes, how to apply watercolor paint in different ways, and to take advantage of the special characteristics of different pigments of watercolor paints. They will cover how to mix any color using the three primaries, then expand to painting grays, browns, greens and shades of white. Students will earn to use masking fluid, plan the use of color and contrasting techniques. Get introduced to basic color theory and basic texturing techniques. Beginning students will be provided materials for the first class.
Intermediate students will focus on desired skill development, control of the medium, composition, creative impact and development of an individual style. With the aid of the instructor, students will identify their skill level, strengths and weaknesses; determine where they want to go with the medium; and plan a course of self-directed study that will help them achieve their own goals.
Watercolor painting will be treated as a process that begins with design, composition and thoughtful color selection and ends with a finished painting that has impact, is well designed and executed. Session will include painting, information exchange, mini-lessons, demonstrations and the opportunity to try new brushes, paints and painting surfaces.
WEDNESDAY 10:00 – 12:30
WATERCOLOR
INSTRUCTOR: JOSEPH MELANCON
Some experience helpful -$80.00 monthly (4 classes)
Joseph is a nationally known watercolor artist with signature status with NWS and having won awards in AWS and FWS. His watercolor paintings are unique and beautiful. Come and learn from the best.
Artists who take Joseph’s classes and workshops become better painters. Joseph begins by finding what you do right. No matter what your level of painting is, he takes you to the next level. You leave each class experience with a personal road map for continuing to improve. Joseph takes you through the whole process of planning and executing successful paintings. What is your goal? How do you compose the painting for the strongest composition and design? What do you leave in and what do you take out? What kind of brush strokes, edges, light, color harmony, drawing and relationships do you need in your paintings? What do you need to do to make your work read across a room and move the viewer?
Each day will be a whole new experience of ideas, techniques and discoveries. Joseph cares deeply that you understand painting. Classes include demonstrations, painting time, critiques and private instruction.
ABOUT JOSEPH MELANCON
Joseph is a versatile artist whose range of work includes painting, collage and sculpture. He paints on paper, wood panels and canvas. Lifelong interests including landscape, figure, antique toys, the circus and the American Indian are portrayed with multilayered meaning using abstraction as well as expressive realism.
His works are very personal with a passion for process, composition and the painterly surface. Design and dimensional production work in science and history museums and advertising media contributed greatly to Joseph’s extensive knowledge of methods and materials used in his work.
For many years he taught drawing and painting at Eastfield College in Dallas, Texas in addition to giving workshops and Lecture/Demos across the country.
Books featuring his paintings include; 200 NEW PAINTING IDEAS, 1998 North Light Books SPLASH FIVE: The Glory of Color, 1998 North Light Books ARTS FOR THE PARKS TOP 100: Artist’s Celebrating our National Parks 1996,National Park Academy of the Arts, Inc. CREATIVE WATERCOLOR: Step-by-Step Guide and Showcase, l995 Rockport Publishers SPLASH THREE: Ideas & Inspirations, 1994 North Light Books
Joseph was featured in a seven page article in the February, l995 issue of American Artist Magazine. He has won 25 awards in national juried exhibitions, including the CFS Medal in the American Watercolor Society and Best of Show in the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies.
He is a Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society, Southwest Watercolor Society, Western Federation of Watercolor Societies and others.