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Join Bruce Jones for two days of building your expertise with watercolor pencils and wax pencils. This class will begin with an explanation of the materials used and a discussion of the elements of painting and composition including value, color, texture and line. Through demonstrations and hands-on practice, students will learn watercolor pencil and wax pencil techniques, color mixing, and mixing of media including watercolor, watercolor pencils, ink, pastels, etc. The class will also include a discussion of plein air and travel painting techniques. Additional InformationBRIEF BIO - Teaching Colored Pencils BACKGROUND: I've been painting in watercolor since I was a child, as did my mother and grandmother. I starting painting and drawing every day after I moved to Gualala in 2000. I'm fascinated with the way our brains use clues of shape and texture to figure out what we are seeing. In a search for better ways to render textures, I've done a lot of experimenting with watercolor pencils and wax pencils plus ink and pastels,, both in the studio and on location. In this class I will show you many ways to use these media together, concentrating on the use of watercolor pencils and wax pencils. TRAINING: Although I have sold a lot of paintings, won some awards and taught some classes, I have little formal training in painting -- only one college level course plus a bunch of workshops over the years. The most important workshop I took on colored pencils was from Barbara Krans Jenkins, where I learned how to do realistic wax pencil paintings. I will pass along the highlights of what I learned from Barbara and add what I learned from a whole lot of practice using watercolor pencils on landscapes, seascapes, people, florals, glass, rusty equipment, and practically anything else I've seen. I understand that "travel painting" classes are in vogue now. I coordinate the Gualala Arts Plein Air group, and therefore I've done a lot of on-site painting. I extended this to France, Eastern Europe, Italy, Germany and Austria over the past eight years and will pass along the methods that work for me.
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