This Saturday, September 29, 2017 from 10 AM – 4PM
a watercolor workshop will be held to benefit The Montrose Center for the Arts to raise funds for the Center to acquire a building for visual, performance, and educational events.
Getting Loose
is a series of watercolor workshops with a focus on playful, colorful compositions for the beginner, as well as the advanced painter. Extra support assists beginners, and compositional challenges stimulate the advanced painter. Each workshop explores new techniques, skills, and design concepts. 
This session we will concentrate on these design principles:
- balance
- harmony
- movement
- pattern/rhythm
while we play with the following watercolor techniques:
- wet into wet color mixing
- dry brush
- negative painting
- value control
- graded wash
- creating texture
- line control
- stamping
- mixing “black” from primary color pigments
Registration is still open: Call the Montrose Community Foundation to reserve your slot today: 970-596-5555
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Orchids is my newest painting. After blocking in the basic composition, (two flowers on the upper and mid left and a long vertical for the stem), I created most of this work through negative painting. I painted a series of dark saturated colors in a “blocky” wash, grading from very dark and cool at the top to warmer and lighter on the bottom. I dropped a line of permanent rose from the top orchid, through the bottom orchid , which creates movement through the background, as it also ties the two flowers together visually. My goal was to create an abstract painting behind the flowers, which makes a more dynamic background. Use of negative painting and lots of white highlights give the flowers drama.
