Don't Miss Out – Watercolor Society of Indiana Online Workshop

How to Get Confidence Mixing Greens for Landscape

FEBRUARY 13 AND 27, 2021

​THIS IS A PAID EVENT: The Watercolor Society of Indiana asked me to conduct a virtual workshop for their organization. Due to COVID, this organization has turned its focus on meeting with its members on Zoom. The next adventure will be offering workshops. I’m honored to have been asked to kick this off for them. Here’s a link to the paid event. Need more info read below. Private message me with questions. Hope to see you there.

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THE DEMO - DAY 1, Feb 13
THE REFERENCE PACKET

You will receive a reference packet for our Zoom workshop. This packet includes one of my photos from my personal collection. In addition, I will supply you a pencil sketch on watercolor paper you will recreate on your own paper.
​Finally, page 3 includes:

• The paint colors and other supplies
• A black & white value photo
• Techniques
• What you will walk away with 

At the beginning of this Zoom demonstration, I will show you some basic color charts creating greens from yellows and blues and then explaining how to grey these colors..

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I will talk about how to build a painting. The main emphasis will be on gaining confidence and demystify mixing and using greens. Secondly, is the process. I will explain the block in the method of painting. Working from large to small areas, painting from background to foreground, developing your values from light to dark, and finally working your colors more intensely at the beginning to grind down to a slow process as you work through the painting.

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©Dale L Popovich IWS, Ballet of Smoke

​There are several things that I will continue to remind you during the demonstration. A few of these are keeping your edges as soft as you can for as long as you can. Understanding various uses of the brush including applications of the toothbrush in applying and removing color. ​

I will discuss my personal favorite paints, my tried and true paper recommendations, and the real-hair brushes I have owned for over 40+ years. Quality materials are key to creating a successful painting.

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This will be fun, informative several hours so make sure you have plenty of notepaper.

​The Photo
​Marilee, my wife, and I suffer from wanderlust! With empty memory cards, a thermos of steaming hot coffee, and a full tank of gas we headed out to discover new sceneries. In northern Wisconsin during the spring, there are numerous intense colors of green in the forest – yellow-greens to blue-greens where the sparkling sun meets the fog rises from the early morning forest floor.
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This special swampy area opened into a meadow in the distance. It was a bit mystical to me. There was an ancient fire road directly across the way that led to hiking trails curving through the marshland. As we explored we passed small stagnant ponds and disfigured trees that almost seemed to wave at us as we passed by. This was a perfect spot calling to be painted.

THE VIDEO
This demonstration will be recorded so you can recreate what I painted. You will receive an email approximately three to four days after the demo with a video link. This video is yours along as YouTube is around. In addition, you will receive a Start-to-Finish packet that includes photos of each step along the painting process. If you have any questions before the critique please send me an email and I will answer them.

​THE CRITIQUE – DAY 2-Feb 27
Once you have completed your painting email it to me by Noon Friday, February 26, 2021.

Here's What to Expect:

• I will review each submitted painting
• I’ll answer all your questions
• I wi give suggestions
• Even share a mini-demo to help explain

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