Gualala Arts Workshop
Building Expertise with
Watercolor Pencil and Wax Pencil
Instructor: Bruce Jones

Saturday - Sunday
July 25 - 26, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Canceled

Register by:	July 11, 2009
Tuition:	$40 members, $50 non-members
Materials list:	Colored & Wax Pencil materials

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 Information

BRIEF 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.

Course Outline

Day 1:
1 hour explaining materials and ways of getting good materials for a good price.

1 hour on the elements of painting and composition: value, color, texture and line

Lunch break

Afternoon: demonstrate watercolor pencil techniques, then class does a landscape using them.

Day 2:
1 hour explaining and demonstrating wax pencils. Then class does a color mixing exercise followed by a still life.

Lunch break

1 hour demonstration of mixing media: watercolor, watercolor pencils, ink, pastels, etc.

Remainder of class: painting, and evaluating results plus a demonstration and discussion of plein air and travel painting methods.

See also: Gualala Arts Workshop Registration, Payment & Cancellation Policy.

The Gualala Arts Center, located at 46501 Old State Highway in Gualala, CA,
is open weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and weekends from noon to 4:00 p.m.
Please call (707) 884-1138 for more information, or email info@gualalaarts.org.

Serving the coastal communities of northern Sonoma & southern Mendocino Counties.