Workshop March 6 – 8, 2019,
Demo March 9, 2019
Open date: December 1, 2018
Member $265, Non-Member $325

​Stan Miller has been teaching watercolor since 1976 and loves it almost as much as paintings. His awards are numerous such as ones from the American Watercolor Society International Exhibition (NYC), Quindao International Watercolor Exhibition (China), and Grand Prize from Watercolor Magic National Competition. Stan will be guiding students through both portraits and landscape subjects. Handouts of both portrait and landscape are provided each day or you can work from your own photos. Technique, color, design and composition will be discussed and demonstrated. More information contact Stan @ stan@stanmiller.net or www.stanmiller.net

​Demo May 11, 2019 

SWS President Ronnie Rector will share her batik technique that adds light and luminous shadows to her paintings. Ronnie is also a member of Nevada Artist’s Association in Carson City and the Sacramento Fine Arts/WASH organization. Her work has won several awards, beenjuried into national and international exhibits and publications. Ronnie will be using the hot wax Batik method with watercolor on rice paper. Contemporary batik allows the use of etching, discharge, dyeing, stencils, different tools for waxing and dyeing, wax recipes with different resist values and work with silk, cotton, wool, leather, paper or even wood and ceramics.

Workshop August 13 – 16, 2019
Demo August 17, 2019
Open date: May 1, 2019
Member $410,  Non-Member $470

Tom Lynch has been referred as one of the nation’s premier watercolorists. He has written 7 books and hosted several award-winning PBS TV Art Series. He has been listed as one of the nation’stop 20 teachers by a leading Art Magazine. With his uniquely styled landscape paintings, he strives for a level of excitement, movement, and resonance that pushes beyone what is naturally supplied. In his workshop, he will started the first day with talking and teaching while doing a short demo. He will work with individuals on how to think like an artist, practicing new techniques and repainting parts of the morning demo together. More information www.tomlynch.com.
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​Hi again, Everyone,
 
I’ve had a chance to work on my cascading water painting a bit – see below for most of the demo, including the 4-step preliminary sketch…

1. Simple sketch of basic shapes…
   
2. Lightest values…
   
3. Medium values…
   
4. Darkest values for the accents that really pull the image together…
   
5. The drawing…
   
6. “Acrylic Underpinnings” in Golden Fluid Acrylic, Anthraquinone Blue diluted even further to establish the dark value pattern and “lock in” the composition – NOTE: normally I would not use just one color – I believe it’s best to have a process simplified when being introduced to a new technique for the first time…
   
7. Light and medium values in traditional watercolor right over the under-painting knowing that the acrylic will not dissolve to create muddy washes…
   
8. This is the painting as you last saw it – that large boulder on the left – ugh!
   
9. I sponged out the watercolor washes on that offending boulder…
   
10. After re-shaping that boulder, and the one on the right as well and adding another rock under the waterfall I think the painting is improved – not finished yet, but perhaps on its way…
    

About the Workshop:
During David Lobenberg’s workshop, you will learn portraiture that goes beyond the norm with super expressive paint applications and wildly intense colors. This will be accomplished by:

1. Learning how to take dramatic, stylistic photographs with a camera, smart phone, or computer pad
2. Learning a simple technique to trace contour outlines from your photographs that can easily transferred to any size of watercolor paper
3. Learning to economically and with minimal brush strokes, render head structure and facial features
4. Working with minimal color palette and the four basic water/pigment consistencies to render strong value contrasts, subtle tints, and intense hues
5. Painting 1/8 sheet “pochades” (small paintings) to quickly explore both paint application and techniques and expressive color combinations 6. Using your pochade(s) as a guide to paint your California VIBE, beyond-the-norm portrait(s)

Announcing an exhibit of collage artwork, "Putting the Pieces Together" by member artists Lynn Schmidt and Virginia McLaughlin. From September 1 through October 27 at the Northwest Reno Library.  There will be an artists reception on September 8 from 2 to 4pm.