Fees & Procedures

  1. Registration via the Society website is required to reserve a seat in any workshop. Sending a check directly to the Treasurer without registering online will not guarantee a spot in a workshop.
  2. SWS requires either full payment through our secure account online, or the indication that a check is being mailed. Make  checks payable to “SWS” and mail to: Treasurer, Sierra Watercolor Society, P. O. Box 70564, Reno NV 89570. Checks must be received by the Treasurer within 10 days of registration in order to complete your reservation. If payment is not received within the time specified, you will be notified by the Treasurer that your reservation is being cancelled.
  3. Membership status is not required to purchase a seat; however, non-members will pay an additional fee to attend. The non-member may choose to apply this extra fee towards membership in the Society, if they wish.
  4. Up until 30 days prior to a workshop, if you find you must cancel your reservation, you will be refunded your fee*. After that time, the workshop fee will be refunded* only if the Society has a Wait List for the workshop and is subsequently able to sell the seat. If no Wait List exists, you would then have the option of providing your own replacement. If this occurs, a refund of fees paid will be issued*.
  5. All workshops are held at Reno Public Market  Suite 155 from 9 to 4 each day.
  6. Questions? Anita Watson swsworkshops@gmail.com 775-843-8290
*Less any credit card transaction fee.

2023 Schedule

Julie Cohn
The Flow of Watercolor: Representation & Abstraction of the  Landscape

Workshop: August 16 - 18, 9:00 - 4:00
Registration fees: $290 members / $350 non-members​
Free Public Demo: August 19, 1:00 - 3:00 pm

​Under Julie Cohn’s guidance, learn how to represent a landscape so that viewers recognize the elements of nature without seeing minute detail, and learn to see landscape composition through a new, refreshing lens. Deepen your understanding of how to follow your intuition to form suggested landscape through abstraction. All levels are welcome!

For more information and to register, please visit SierraWatercolorSociety.com

Sterling Edwards
Stylized Interpretations with Watercolor

Workshop: October 4 - 6, 9:00 - 4:00
Registration fees: $525 members / $585 non-members   ​
Free Public Demo: October 7, 2023, 1:00 to 3:00 pm
​This will be a three-day watercolor workshop that will focus on creating visually dynamic and colorful watercolor paintings that are stylized or abstracted to command attention.Renowned artist Sterling will do a different painting each day and will include a landscape, a floral, and a still life. In addition you'll see a wide variety of watercolor techniques including balancing positive and negative shapes, glazing and charging colors, creative color mixing, saving select areas of unpainted white paper, the importance of adding rich and dark values, building a strong composition, and much more. 
Each day Sterling will a complete painting while he explains what he is doing and entertains your questions as he is painting. He is renowned for his in-depth and relaxing teaching style. In the afternoons you will have plenty of time to work on your painting with Sterling on-hand the entire time to answer questions and critique your painting if requested. 

BETTY CARR
ONLINE WORKSHOP
Expressive, Luminous Paintings with Impressionistic Brushwork
5 hour edited recording of her SWS 3 day Workshop
Digital Access: $100

Join American Impressionist Society Master Betty Carr as
she works through a still life, and then landscape painting.

Betty is known for her enthusiastic and thoughtful
teaching style, coupled with skillful use of light, color and
shadow.