 You can watch my Watercolor Escape Saturday livestream without signing up for Facebook. Contrary to popular belief, you do not need an account to view my stream! Once a person without a Facebook account follows this direct link CLICK HERE you will see one of three pages. 1. The first page may look like this:  2. You can access the CURRENT WATERCOLOR ESCAPE SATURDAY live video link by scrolling down. 3. Click on link.  4. When you click on the event, a pop-up window will appear. The Event Cover Banner will change to the live event once Dale starts at noon CST.  I look forward to seeing you then!
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 September 27-30, 2023 FOUR-DAY WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP Watercolor Impressions of the Great Northwoods I want to tell you it was an honor to teach these four full days at Dillman's. I hope my students had as much fun as I did. Like I said it was a pleasant learning experience for me to see the various interpretations of my demos. I am always thrilled to help you, the artist truly see.
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Upon completion of the Workshop, we sent an addendum containing the finished demos. Before and during the Workshop this workbook serves as a comprehensive roadmap for navigating the Workshop, offering a well-defined route to follow and promoting effective information retention when they got home. My 2024 Workshops Are Filling Up Fast! I'm Scheduling 2024-25 workshops now If you are interested in having Dale L Popovich IWS come do a workshop for your group, please contact us at [email protected] Ask him about the Workbook Dillman's Art Retreat 2023 Workshop Scrapbook I had a fantastic time teaching at Dillman's for four days! I hope my students enjoyed themselves as much as I did. Seeing how people interpreted my demonstrations was eye-opening for me as an artist. I shared my perspective on art with my artistic students so they could better understand it.
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Thank you everyone for your continued support. Next year, I hope you will be able to join me in God's country.
 My wife turned me onto a great podcast called Artist Helping Artist. The host, Leslie Saeta, and her co-host Margaret Sheldon discuss a specific topic that addresses how to sell more art online, along with guest artists, gallerists, and others sharing their knowledge of the business side of art. Even though these two artists have not published a podcast in several years, these two ladies are on trend with social media and marketing. I enjoyed their talks with famous artists like Doug Diehl and Stapleton Kearns. In fact, Stapleton Kearns judged the Indiana Heritage Art Show in Nashville, IN, several years ago. One warning once you start listening, you won't be able to stop!   As I was going through the massive collections of Artist Helping Artists podcasts – nearly 10 years, Leslie and Margaret shared their feelings about John F Carlson's book Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting. As you all know, this is my favorite art book of all time. Even though I am a watercolorist and Carlson worked in oils, it has valuable information about drawing, painting, perspective, atmosphere, and so much more. On their show, they mention some of the key ideas from the book... they hope that this will cause their audience (and mine) to reread it or purchase it for your art book collection. It's fantastic that a book nearly 100 years old still holds up. The podcast is about an hour, so listen to it while driving or taking a little time. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN.  The book is easy to find –you can buy a soft cover, spiral bound, or a Kindle book at AMAZON. If you own an iPad like I, you can purchase an iBook at APPLE'S ITUNES STORE.   Here's a sample from one of my students, Karen Isakson Wilson. She has been a student of mine for 40+ years.
September 27-30, 2021
FOUR-DAY WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP Watercolor Impressions of the Great Northwoods
I want to tell you it was an honor to teach these four full days at Dillman's. I hope MY students had as much fun as I did. Like I said it was a pleasant learning experience for me to see the various interpretations of my demos. I am always thrilled to help you, the artist truly see.
Dillman's Art Retreat 2021 Workshop Scrapbook
This year's Dillman's watercolor workshop started off with above normal temperatures, blazing autumn colors, and a packed studio. Artist started showing up early Sunday afternoon setting up their equipment for a four full day workshop. I was so pleased to see old friends and new artists. Two ladies stopped me in the parking lot to let me know they enjoy watching my Watercolor Escape Saturdays, YouTube videos and Dillman's Facebook live events.
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Dillman's always offers a lovely early evening reception which included Denny Robertson, owner welcoming the instructors and students. From there we enjoyed a buffet dinner of salmon or chicken kiev, wild rice, fresh green beans and a display of tiny desserts. Oh, the owner, Denny kept the wine flowing. The Workshop As you may know, I share my personal library of photos I have taken over the years. This workshop was no different. I was so excited about introducing my passion for watercolor impressions of the Great Northwoods to my students. Take a look at my scrapbook below and see all the fun we had. Everyone painted two paintings a day. I pushed them to get loose and free – I have to say everyone was surprised at how much they produced. Dillman's is a great host planning every waking moment of our day. Lunchtime boat rides, box lunches, group dinners in town, gallery walks, snacks in the morning and afternoons, campfires and s'mores, and the most beautiful compound you ever would want to stay at in Wisconsin. At the end of the workshop, I gave away all of my demos to eight lucky students. To finish off the last day Dillman's had champagne, cupcakes, and handed out certificates of completion. Well done everyone. I will be back next year, Sept 25-30, 2022 - four teaching days, and will cover the same subject, Watercolor Impressions of the Great Northwoods. My wife Marilee will also be giving an art marketing workshop, Claim Your Online Presence as a Professional Artist on May 17-22, 2022 – four teaching days. I hope you will be able to make it to next year's workshop in God's country. 
 Finished my first week of a new Palette & Chisel Zoom watercolor studio class. This summer session runs for 4-weeks and you will complete four paintings. My instruction is done as a paint-along. Why? I feel my students retain what they learn better in small bite-size portions. The photo reference was from my personal library. This was early fall in northern Indiana on the Tippecanoe River. The attention was on the shoreline of the river paying close attention to the reflections in the water. 
The next Palette & chisel Zoom class starts July 15. I would love to have you in my class. Have any questions please email me.
  A Great Turnout for My Workshop: Watercolor Waterfalls and Rapids of the Great Northwoods June 3 and 4, 2021. 10:00am-4:30pm est THANK YOU EVERYONE. I want to share with you what an honor it was to teach this enthusiastic group. I crafted a two-full days workshop for LOLA. They are located in God's country – Land 'O Lakes, WI. I hope my students had as much fun as I did. Like I told them it was a pleasant learning experience for me to see the various interpretations of the demos. I am always thrilled to help artists truly see. MY WORKSHOP SCRAPBOOK. Here are a few images and comments posted on Facebook I want to share with you. FYI I have been giving watercolor workshops at LOLA since 2014, I always have a great turnout and this year was no different. I was so thrilled to see how well the group did with this difficult subject. If you have a few moments visit LOLA's website. This enthusiastic group of artist offers fun events throughout the year. https://lolaartswi.com.    Here's some comments from my students on Facebook     BY MARILEE JACOBI-POPOVICH Dale and I wanted to include technology in our rebranded newsletter format -- CLICK HERE to get on our newsletter mailing list. Our lives are surrounded by it nowadays and it's nothing to be scared of but embrace it! There is so much useful information, places to see, and a community to explore. They say that today's iPhone has more muscle under the hood than the NASA computers that put the man on the moon. In fact, my old iPhone 6s could be used to fly 120,000,000 Apollo-era spacecraft to the moon! On any given day Dale uses his iPad to display the image he paints from, does correspondence, stores his portfolio, and photo adjustments. He AirDrops the images he shot with his iPhone via AirDrop. Want to learn about Airdrop? Check out this video. http://bit.ly/airdrop-popovich. He uses Photos to color correct, crop, and adjust the lighting. I know the Androids have similar apps. I handle Dale's social media, design his marketing, and even layout this newsletter. That's just for starters. VALUES I found an app to help you understand values called NotanIzer. Sometimes a scene can be so colorful with textures you lose sight of value. Well, this app will help you see and understand values better. Whether you are in the studio or out doing a day of plein air painting. Easy to use on the fly, sitting at the doctor's office, or at your drawing table. I like it because it gives you flexibility allowing you to save your options in your camera roll. The app costs $1.99.
Painting Water Reflections and Nature in Watercolor   Dale L. Popovich IWS will be offering a two-day Beginning/Intermediate Watercolor Workshop on Saturday, April 24th and Saturday, May 8th from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm. In this Zoom workshop students will walk away with a better understanding of transparent watercolor. He will be teaching his personal step-by-step process of how to start and finish a watercolor. Dale will concentrate on reflections of water. Students will acquire an understanding of how reflections of the shorelines reflect into the water, and how to interpret them. He will also give participants an understanding of the values, temperatures, intensities, and hues, and how they react as a reflection. A better understanding of how to cross mixed colors that best capture the reflections in the water will be demonstrated. In this process, he will illustrate how to block-in and build a painting properly. Students will experience various applications of watercolor, color palette, properties of watercolor, tools, and techniques. Dale’s objective through the step-by-step instruction will show how to avoid watercolor problems and grow as a painter.  You will be painting this image – water reflections and nature in watercolor – this is from Dale's personal library Workshop #1, April 24th, Dale will conduct a 2.5-hour painting workshop on Zoom stopping between steps and answering questions along the way. During the painting process, photos will be taken of each step. The photos will be added to the original packet creating the Popovich’s Start-to-Finish packet. Workshop #2, May 8th, Dale will lead a Zoom Group Critique sharing his screen with students. During this time, he will walk artists through two paintings and answer any additional questions. Tuition is $115 for members and $135 for non-members. Supplies are not included in this workshop. After payment is received, a supply list will be provided. In addition, a full reference packet will be sent prior to the workshop which will also include the Zoom links. Students must register and pay before the first class. To register stop in, call, or visit the website at www.chestertonart.org or Eventbrite.com (search Chesterton Art Center). For questions, please call the Chesterton Art Center at 219-926-4711. The Chesterton Art Center is located at 115 S. 4th St., Chesterton, IN 46304. For a list of all classes being offered at the Art Center, please see the website www.chestertonart.org. 
Dale L Popovich will teach you how to add a splash to your watercolor paintings through his 3-full day watercolor workshop. Using Dale’s personal photo references you will learn to interpret water, waterfalls, rapids, and the his love of nature. He will share his 42+ years of professional teaching, knowledge, and techniques. For all levels. His unique step-by-step instruction in transparent watercolor will show you how to avoid watercolor problems and grow as a painter. Each demonstration is taught as a paint-along — students will watch, go back, and recreate what was just painted. Through Dale's guidance, there will be two start-to-finish paintings a day so you can experience various subject matter, color palettes, properties, tools, and techniques. You will investigate the many facets of the color blue. How to understand the temperatures of blue and have a better understanding of cross-mixing with other colors so you can best capture the moving water and color variations. He will share how to mix greens with confidence so you can create a beautiful marriage of water and landscape. Dale will also demystify aerial perspective helping you understand how to create distance in paintings or depth and much more...
  I have been giving workshops for the Lakeland Art League located in Minocqua, WI for several years. This ambitious, fun-loving group of nearly 100 members shares their passion with the community including shows, charity events, and a weekly open studio. Since the COVID their organization like so many others has come to halt. Lakeland's leadership reached out to me and asked if I would do a Facebook Live Demonstration for their group. They wanted their art community to feel connected and creative, so virtual was the way to go. Some of you may remember last year I gave 12 weeks of Watercolor Escape Saturdays on Facebook Live Demos. Many of Lakeland's members joined in and loved it.
Here's the link you will need to watch at Monday, February 8th, 2021 10:00 am cst-- Lakeland's Facebook page. CLICK HERE Below you will see the reference packet. This includes:
 This Week's Demonstration I am going to focus on water, moving water. Do not let this scare you – it is not as hard as you think, and I will share my splashy secrets. There are a tremendous amount of streams and rivers in Michigan to explore. The beauty of simple pleasures with their rugged trails, nothing makes us feel more alive. The wandering gypsies in us enjoy hiking these areas during all four seasons and all-weather types. Marilee and I will crack open our favorite waterfall books over breakfast and escaping for a day of touring and taking in their majesty. During this time we settled on Kakabika Falls on US-2 in between the small towns of Watersmeet and Marenisco in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. You will find it off of County Road 527 on the Cisco Branch of Octonagon River. There is a small parking lot and from there follow the trail, and you’ll see multiple different drops. MORE INFORMATION. Every year Kakabika Falls is quite different because of the snowfall and rain. In October 2012 it was apparent to us the drought up north for the past 7 or 8 years has taken a toll on the falls. In years past you would only see a few of the very large boulders and massive amounts of water flowing through this area. But now all of the secrets of the river were exposed in a prehistoric beauty. Here is a YouTube link to our October 2012 trek. YouTube Link Click Here So let's dive in. Demo techniques: • How to paint abstract. • Patterns in nature. • How to paint abstract m patterns in nature. • Not over-mixing colors. • Applying color with the toothbrush. • How to paint soft edges. • How to use dry brush strokes to paint trees. • How to transition colors in a wash. Please note the pencil sketch was on indigo handmade watercolor paper but you can also use Arches #300 paper. The drawing is simple–minimal lines. After this demo I want you to walk away with: 1. Understand the timing in applying the watercolor. 2. How to handle a dark, subject matter and still making it colorful. 3. Learn the dynamic color range you can achieve with a five-color palette. 4. Don’t over mix—instead, let the paints blend on the paper and work their magic. This teaches you patience. 5. Making a light value subject work using subtle value changes. Please note the painting will be on Kilimanjaro Natural White Cold-Press 300 lb but Arches would be just fine too. The drawing is simple–minimal lines.  My Tried and True Complete Supply List If you want to learn more about my tried and true watercolor supplies please visit HERE. I have articles, videos, and favorite books. We are always adding to the page. So please come back often.  |
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