With                            with Robbie Laird                   January 23-31, 2010

Explore flowing watercolor with transparent and opaque effects as a way to discover your own balance between mystery and detail.  Create your strongest paintings by finding your best personal fit using:

 FUNDAMENTALS of Design,

 INDIVIDUAL Vision, and

 TECHNIQUES of Expression… to find your personal FIT

This workshop is about using INFORMATION TO PAINT INTUITIVELY.  We will be exploring the personal process of painting using: Color for emotion; Value for structure and strength; Line, texture and various techniques for a personalized “signature”.

  SESSION 1 –– Use the Emotion of Color – Achieving Glorious Color!

                        “Soaking it in and Letting it Flow!” - For Feeling!

·        Color Demo – Planned use of color wet into wet for overall feeling.

·        Studio Time – Your choices and use of color

Celebrating Your Creativity! (Critique)

  SESSION 2 –– Plan Stronger Paintings with Value and Structure 

                        Add Strength and Structure with Specifics – Information and Exaggeration

                        “Sketch and Stretch”- For Informed/ Intuitive Expression

·        Value Demo – Values to build a structure/ ambiguous to specific

·        Sketch, sketch, sketch!

·        Stretch, stretch, stretch!

·        Studio Time – Your choice of design structure and use of values.

Celebrating Your Creativity! (Critique)

  SESSION 3–– Gathering Resources   Being (at the center of the place)!

Horseback ride to the waterfall- Photography and sketching

  SESSION 4–– Making Connections, Putting it all together to express the feeling of the place  

Show “Your Signature” with Artists’ Tools and Techniques

·        Demo – Personal choices of various techniques.

·        Combinations and Connections.  Redefinition and Artistic License.  

·        Let The Feeling Dictate… design…color…techniques…

·        Studio Time – Using “artist’s marks” your own way.

Celebrating Your Creativity! (Critique)

  SESSION 5–– Use Information to paint Intuitively- Extend your vision

·        Demo – Synergic possibilities and techniques

·        Studio Time – What if?

·        Small paintings…work on more than one simultaneously.

Celebrating Your Creativity! (Critique)

  DAILY–– Personal Information Gathering AM, /Painting Evaluation PM    

             1.  “Quick Capture”,  “Expressing the Essence”, and “Creative Contemplation”

             2.   Personal evaluation including a personal plan of action and affirmation. 

Celebrating Your Creativity in this Beautiful Place!