Student Art

Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow!

After learning some new ways to draw: Blind Contour, Modified Blind Contour, Opposite Hand and using a grid to enlarge, transfer and rearrange their own drawings, look at the creative images that happened!

The first step in learning to draw is SEEING! Blind Contour and Modified Blind Contour Drawing is a great way to train your eye and hand to work together!

Every painting goes through an awkward stage also know as the “ugly stage”. It’s a time when you may not be sure if it is worth going on or not. 99.9% of the time it is! If you already don’t like it, then what have you got to lose? Try something little or go big. …

See what everyone painted using complementary colors! (reds and greens or blues and orange or yellows and purple)

Learn what YOUR colors can do! You may have more colors that you thought!

Look how colorful white flowers can be!

What is December without painting snowy trees? Here are more and they keep getting better and better!

Painting with a vibrant powdered pigment is unpredictable, fun and beautiful!

We learned to paint dew drops and then added them to leaves and more!

Masa Paper is like rice paper. It is thin, absorbent and kind of fragile. It doesn't sound like it is meant for watercolors, but look what we have done!

This was a very playful way to learn watercolor techniques. We first covered watercolor paper with many colors and techniques that did not have to look like anything. You can’t go wrong! Then we used the papers to create something new. So fun and creative!

A fancy word for layering your watercolors! Look what can happen when using only 3 colors!

Oh, what fun we had!!!!

Painting on a slick plastic surface, called yupo, can be full of surprises. Look what everyone created…

Look at these amazing eyes!!!

Look at these great paintings created with watercolor pencils!

The negative shapes are just as important as the positive!

This is the 12th(?) annual Snowy Trees display! I never get tired of painting snowy trees and it seems as if I am not alone! Look at these stunning trees!

This class was more than just about painting a ribbon. It was about turning edges and light and shadow. Useful things to understand for painting so many things!

It is amazing what you can do with only ONE color! If you have a variety of values the painting actually looks colorful!

There are so many ways to add ink to your watercolors. Here are just a few!