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High Country Watermedia Society (HCWS)

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Demos and Workshops

Online Workshops in 2023

Workshops for 2023 Session


Your Board has worked hard to create opportunities for our HCWS members to stay connected and continue to enjoy workshops during 2023. 


The workshops will be online, generally they are approximately 3 hours and can be viewed for approximately a month after the workshop date - that is determined by the instructor.  


Members are able to sign up and pay for each workshop individually or all of them at once. Our program committee works diligently to have demos and workshops on a variety of watermedia.  

See membership page for pricing and registration form.


HCWS-Sponsored Demos and Workshops 2023


We are so happy to announce a spectacular line up of talented artist for this season. We have live demos at our monthly meetings and three virtual workshops.


     Monthly meeting dates followed by live demos, 

     all meetings start at 9.30AM - 12 noon:


  • May 13th, Jeremy Sams - Masterly acrylic landscapes. Plein air artist with many awards; Inspired by play of light and atmosphere; Constantly capturing the nature and essence of beauty.  See more info below.


  • June 10th, Marion Cloaninger - Abstract paintings in brilliant colors using acrylic paint to create layers with papers, monoprints and found collage elements for masterful compositions of landscapes, flowers, and figures. See more info below.


  • July 8th, Anne Marie Brown - Painting in acrylics in painterly, peaceful style of moody mountains, luscious gardens and nature. discussion of ease and flexibility of Acrylics. Lesson will focus on a mountain scene of a black bear. See more info below.


  • August 12th, Wes Waugh Abstract Watercolor. Wet into Wet process with brilliant bright colors. Insightful artistic composition. Excellent guidance and suggestions for other artist. See more info below.


  • Sept 9th, Beth Andrews -  Demonstration of creating one-of-a-kind hand printed papers using Gelli plates, a process that can open up your creativity and joy, and spark a more intuitive approach to art making.  See more info below.


  • Oct 14th,  Lorelle Bacon - Demonstration of two approaches to Watercolor Portraits: loose and more impressionistic versus tighter and more realistic. Knowledgeable and experienced artist on many media. See more info below.


For more information on each of our Artist see Download documents below.

We encourage our member to bring your paintings to the meetings and / or post your paintings on our Facebook Community page in order to share them with others. 


2023 OnLine Workshops.

Johannes Vloothuis, Online workshop, Saturday May 27th 2023, at 1PM.

Susan Hetzel TWSA, WSNC, IWS, PWS, online workshop, Saturday August 5th, 2023.

Johannes Vloothuis, Online workshop, Saturday May 27th 2023, at 1PM.

Johannes Vloothuis, master Artist with Artist Network. www.improvemypaintings.com


Water-based presentation: 

  1. Lecture on Plein-Aire
  2. Demo on Acrylic underpainting
  3. Demo finish in water-soluble oils

Follow-up feedback session TBA.

This is a free workshop. 


 

Find out more

Don Andrews AWS, online workshop, Monday July 17th.

Susan Hetzel TWSA, WSNC, IWS, PWS, online workshop, Saturday August 5th, 2023.

Johannes Vloothuis, Online workshop, Saturday May 27th 2023, at 1PM.

Don Andrews ASW, Nationally known Watercolor Artist known for figure and landscape paintings with glowing granular washes and vibrant light. 

This unique Watercolor online workshop will focus on color temperature and contrast. Feedback session on July 29th time TBA. 

www.donandrewsstudio.com 


Susan Hetzel TWSA, WSNC, IWS, PWS, online workshop, Saturday August 5th, 2023.

Susan Hetzel TWSA, WSNC, IWS, PWS, online workshop, Saturday August 5th, 2023.

Susan Hetzel TWSA, WSNC, IWS, PWS, online workshop, Saturday August 5th, 2023.

Susan Hetzel of www.dragonflywatercolors.com 

Watercolor focus on adding textures, thinking outside the box, with discussions of drawing, color, brush choice, and shadow. Direct painting with minimal glazing.  Feedback session TBA.

Livestream: Johannes Vloothius, May 27th at 1PM

Johannes Vloothius

ARTIST Bio's, Images, supply list and other INFORMATION

JEREMY SAMS: ARTIST INFORMATION, SUPPLY LIST AND PHOTOS

Jeremy Sams Short Bio and supply list (pdf)

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Blueridge Autumn 22x28 - Copy (jpeg)

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lightonmain6x8 - Copy (jpeg)

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JeremySamsPhoto-23-1 (jpeg)

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johannes vloothius: ARTIST INFORMATION/SUPPLY LIST/PHOTo

Johannes Vloothius Workshop information and photo (pdf)

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Marion Cloaninger: ARTIST INFORMATION, SUPPLY LIST AND PHOTO

Marion Cloaninger Bio and supply list (pdf)

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Art Photo of Marion (jpeg)

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Wild Rose 6_ x 12_ (jpeg)

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2 Tulips 6_ x 8_ (jpeg)

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Anna Marie Brown: ARTIST INFORMATION, SUPPLY LIST AND PHOTOs

Anne Marie Brown supply list (pdf)

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Bio - All (jpeg)

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Black Bear 5 x 7 (jpeg)

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Don Andrews: ARTIST INFORMATION, SUPPLY LIST AND PHOTOS

Files coming soon.

Suzanne Hetzel: ARTIST INFORMATION, SUPPLY LIST AND PHOTOs

Online Workshop of Suzanne Hetzel of Dragonfly Watercolors (pdf)

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Wes Waugh: ARTIST INFORMATION, SUPPLY LIST AND PHOTOs

Wes Waugh Grandfather Mountain (jpg)

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Wes Waugn landscape (jpg)

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Wes Waugh (jpg)

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WesWaughMaroonBellsSummer (jpeg)

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Wes Waugh Demo (1) (pdf)

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Beth Andrews: ARTIST INFORMATION, SUPPLY LIST AND PHOTOs

Andrews info for HCWS Demo Sept 2023 (pdf)

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Reflection lres (jpeg)

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Sister Crow lres (jpeg)

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Lorelle Bacon: ARTIST INFORMATION, SUPPLY LIST AND PHOTOs

LorelleBacon - Oct14-23 (pdf)

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Photo Gallery from 2022 demos


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