Painting Impressions with Watercolor
Monday, April 8 – Friday, April 12, 2024
Do you paint everything that your eyes see? In this class, you will start seeing things differently and learn how to turn reality into a captivating, impressionistic image. The goal is to capture the essence of the subject that conveys a certain mood and atmosphere. Keiko will show you how to take the initial inspiration through a simplification process to create an expressive painting that is strong in composition and content.
The introduction focuses on the fundamentals, including getting to know your materials and seeing things with an artist’s eye. The topics covered in this workshop include composition and making a preliminary drawing, a variety of watercolor techniques in paint application and brush handling, what makes a good design, understanding relationships of dark and light values, planning and intuition, and how to edit complex visual information.
Keiko will do a daily demonstration with helpful tips and insights and reference photos will be provided. There will be plenty of one-on-one guidance/critique and a question-and-answer session daily. This workshop is open to all levels of participants although basic knowledge and some previous experience is strongly recommended to reap the biggest benefits.
About the Instructor
The instructor for this workshop will be Keiko Tanabe, AWS, NWS, AIS, LPAPA. Often working en plein air, her atmospheric watercolors perfectly capture a sense of time and place. Through her use of color, textures, and signature brushwork, Keiko’s landscapes and cityscapes beautifully convey both the exotic and the simple scenes of the many places she travels. Never attending art school, Keiko took only one drawing class to learn basic technical skills before she started painting in 2005. One year later, after learning additional drawing and watercolor painting skills at a local community school in San Diego, Keiko decided to paint full-time. From then on, she intensely taught herself to be fluent in watercolor painting, just as one would do to master a foreign language. Her subjects include landscape, cityscape, waterscape, and interior scenes, all of which will be demonstrated in the workshop using representational and impressionistic compositions. Since 2011, Keiko has successfully delivered numerous workshops and live demonstrations around the world. She has released 4 DVDs, published several books of her art, and has been featured in many art magazines.
Learn more about Keiko at these sites:
- www.ktanabefineart.com
- https://www.instagram.com/keikotanabewatercolor/
- https://www.youtube.com/@KeikoTanabeFineArt
Location
The workshop will be held in one of the classrooms at Yachats Commons, located at 441 Highway 101 N, Yachats, Oregon. Coffee, tea, and water will be offered each day. You may bring your own food and beverages and store them in the building’s kitchen, or you can visit any of the numerous eateries within walking distance for lunch breaks.
Supply List
Here is the supply list for the workshop.
Registration
The fee for the five-day workshop is $550 for WSO Active, Lifetime and Subscriber Members. Payment may be made by PayPal, credit card, or check.
Capacity for the workshop is 24 attendees, and registration is currently full. Names are being taken for a waitlist. It is not uncommon for space to open up in a sold-out workshop. You can sign up for the waitlist at the link below. If space opens up, any non-members who are taken from the waitlist will be required to join WSO to get a confirmed seat in the workshop.
Refund policy
For confirmed attendees, cancellations will be accepted no later than March 22 (14 days prior to the beginning of the workshop). Cancellations made after March 22 will be refunded only if the spot is filled with a replacement participant. Exceptions may be made in the event of serious illness, accident, or death in the family. All refunds, less a $25 processing fee, will be mailed after the convention ends.
