I’ve rejoined Claire Giordano’s Adventure Art Academy, where each month Claire posts on-location painting tutorials from beautiful places. (Read what I learned the first time I was a member two years ago!) She’s one of my favorite teachers, and what really spurred me to rejoin when I did was learning that she was going to teach a three-class sequence on one of my favorite subjects: alpenglow! Here is my work from that class.
Classes
Poppy Balser Class Notes, Part II
In my Artist Palette Profile of Poppy Balser, I shared some things I had learned from taking a class session with her. That session, which could be taken as a standalone or part of a series, focused on colors and supplies. I have continued to take her class series, which moved onto different types of demos.
Lessons from Ruth Wilshaw’s Classes
I recently took a pair of classes by Ruth Wilshaw on Domestika: Atmospheric Landscapes in Gouache and Fantasy Landscapes in Watercolor & Gouache. Without spoiling everything in the classes, I wanted to keep my notes on what was personally meaningful to me.
Mixing Pinks in Watercolor
Last spring, I enjoyed a lovely pink floral workshop with the delightful Barbara Luel. I forgot to post about it at the time, but since the pink season is coming up again soon, I thought I’d post on it now!
I learned to paint realistic skies with Maria Smirnova
I just love skies, as you know! After enjoying last summer’s Cloudscapes class with Maria Coryell-Martin, I recently took two more sky classes, this time through Skillshare, both from Maria Smirnova (@magrish).
Loved & Learned from Kolbie Blume’s Intermediate Landscape Course Module 1: Light
After two years of painting, I am finally beginning to allow myself to think of myself as intermediate rather than a beginner, and accordingly I am working through Kolbie Blume’s Intermediate Landscapes course. (I actually started it before I did the beginner course!)
A four-module course, the first module concerned light, layers, and contrast. The paintings in this module involved planning multiple layers, making decisions about value contrast, and capturing light effects like glow, shadow, and backlighting.
Loved & Learned from Kolbie Blume’s Beginner Landscapes
Beginner Landscapes is a mini-course offered by Kolbie Blume in the course library for members of the Artists Co-op, their monthly subscription service. After nearly two years of watercolor, the most recent of which was spent working through most of Kolbie’s other products (like their 10-Day Painting the Wilderness Challenge, 10-Day Seascapes Challenge, and Wilderness … Read more
Lessons from Shelby Thayne’s Layered Mountains
One of the first watercolor classes I ever took was Shelby Thayne’s “Night Skies” class, back in April 2021. Recently I took her “Layered Mountains” class, and it feels like I’ve come full circle. It’s a funny story how I found Shelby. It was early 2021, at that point in the pandemic when everyone was … Read more
Palette Updates After Taking Liz Steel’s Watercolor Class
I recently went through Liz Steel’s Watercolor course, which was a great way to geek out about color. The course is appropriate for beginners but probably ideal for people with, say, about a year of experience (like me!), and focues on color choice and pigment characteristics, brush technique, and trying different styles. One of the … Read more
I Loved Maria Coryell-Martin’s Cloudscapes Class!
I took a wonderful “Cloudscapes” class from Maria Coryell-Martin, founder of Expeditionary Art / Art Toolkit. Due to a time zone mishap, I missed the actual class, but I caught up on video and had a wonderful time. In two hours, we painted ELEVEN SKIES. I love skies!