Summer Saturdays

• Do you want to expand your abilities with watercolor?
• Do you want a longer block of time with someone there to guide you?
• Would you like to paint with a focus on a theme to stretch yourself?
• Would your painting life be enriched by exploring an aspect of your process with a group of engaged artists?

There is a genius in you – something you that one time first said “I want to learn to paint.”  This is connected to something deeper than acquiring paint-handling skills.  I’ve never been more clear or more certain that I’m here to create the environment and provide the support and encouragement for you to love what you love and paint what you love.

Join me for Summer 2020 Saturdays in Larkspur. I’m offering a series of workshops just for you.  We’ll take the day to explore intriguing and challenging aspects of painting in watercolor. Throughout all the sessions I will offer guidance with concepts inherent in any painting: composition, contrast (light and dark, capturing light) and finding your way with color.

There are no specific image assignments – we won’t all be painting the same image. I want you to paint what you are inspired to paint. Once you jump in, I will contact you ahead of time to remind you to have/find something to paint that will have you learn what you are hoping to – according to the theme of that session.

Learning watercolor technique is most effective when you are working on something that you want to be painting, I offer you instruction, in the moment, as challenges arise in your painting process.

As such, the themes are totally optional. If you’d like to join in and either are not interested in the theme or are underway on another painting you want help with, and/or you just want the joy and nourishment of painting with a group of wonderful artists in our beautiful space in Larkspur, I invite you to join in.

Summer 2020 Themes and Dates

Saturday, June 6, 2020 – Color in White

Painting white objects, petals, fabric, eggs, is a puzzle – especially in watercolor where white is the paper – the no-paint color. You may have the temptation to paint with shades of grey. But painting white subjects is an opportunity to stretch your capacity to see color where it’s not obvious at first and then exaggerate it for lovely, luminous effects.

Saturday, June 27, 2020 – Leaves and Greens

Green is called “nature’s neutral” and it’s ubiquitous in our reference images of plants and flowers. However, very few green paints work right out of the tube. We will practice mixing greens as we paint an often challenging subject: leaves!

Saturday, July 18, 2020 – Fuzzy Backgrounds!

Back by popular demand! Last summer’s workshop filled up so I thought I’d offer it again for those of you who couldn’t make it. These backgrounds are an integral part of my work and I’m happy to share all the ways in which I make out-of-focus background shapes. It’s about working with paint, water and brushes.

Saturday August 8, 2020 – Rich, Lustrous Shadows

I don’t use black or pre-mixed “shadow” colors in my painting (with a couple of special exceptions). I don’t universally add a dark color to make a shadow color either. I find shadows are much more specific and varied. This workshop is a dive into the depths of deep color to make your paintngs more alive and beautiful.

Schedule:

All days start at 10:00 and go no later than 4:00

Held in a lovely space in downtown Larkspur, CA surrounded by my art. – Limited to 10 students.

  $125/Saturday
$230/2 Saturdays
$330/3 Saturdays
$420/4 Saturdays

To reserve your spot, please PAY ONLINE 

or mail a check to:  

Cara Brown, 537 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur, CA  94939.

Please indicate the class or classes you are paying for on your check or in the “notes to seller” online.

Cancellation policy:

If you are unable to come to the workshop and let me know two weeks in advance, you can either apply the fee to a future workshop or I can refund you. If you cancel within 2 weeks and I have someone who can take your place, you can apply your fee to a future workshop.  If I cannot fill your spot, the fee is not refunded.  

If you paid for a workshop with a credit card and request a refund beyond 120 days from your initial payment, the credit card transaction fees will not be included in the refund.

Thank you so much for your understanding.