OUR WORKSHOPS
Watercolor Magic: Transform How You Paint
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Description
Discover the alchemy of watercolors and blow the lid off your creative process!
This workshop is designed to take your watercolors to the next level. Build unique skills and learn how to choose and mix pigments while painting a dramatic landscape from start to finish.
It’s not magic, but it sure feels like it.
Instructor David Pyle is going to show you how to create an irresistible composition, use values to create drama, and choose pigments and other tools that bring powerful (and seemingly magical!) properties to your art.
You’ll work from a reference photo to complete a landscape, Then you’ll apply what you learn for years to come!
Here’s What’s Included
Amy Wolfson, Valencia, CA
“David Pyle is wonderful. As an active watercolor artist, I enjoyed learning why colors do what they do. It opened a window of opportunity!”
Catherine Youngren, Coquitlam BC, Canada
“SBS’s art workshops are some of the very finest you’ll find anywhere!”
Debra Brashear, Acworth, GA
“The best art group I have ever belonged to! No matter your level, you are always encouraged and guided to improve your skills without fear of feeling less talented than others.”
Supplies
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Supplies are essential for this workshop, and we will be using Winsor & Newton paints. This color palette offers specific pigment characteristics that will open new creative doors — and you’ll use them long after you complete the workshop.
Get the full supply list from BLICK Art Materials once you enroll.
- Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolors: Cadmium Red, Permanent Rose, Cadmium Yellow, Transparent Yellow, French Ultramarine, Permanent Sap Green, Raw Umber, Payne’s Gray, Burnt Sienna, Turner's Yellow, Brown Madder, Cobalt Blue Deep, Perylene Green & Perylene Violet
- Watercolor Brushes - Size 7 & 12
- Watercolor Paper - 12'' x 16'', Cold Press, 140 lb (300 gsm)
- Blick Artist Tape
- Pencil
- Watercolor Palette
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Topics included
Building ‘musicality’ in your painting process
Choosing the right pigments
Choosing the right brush and paper surface
Value structures
Painting composition
Instructor Art
About the Instructor
David Pyle
David uses his background in art and chemistry to tell stories of the Western landscape with paint and pencil. With that intersection of art and science, he worked for Winsor & Newton and Liquitex, and subsequently with The Artist’s Magazine and American Artist Magazine. For nearly 40 years, he’s been experimenting with watercolors and their magical alchemy.