What You’ll Learn:

• Watch Robert conduct a delightful 30 minute watercolor painting demonstration while taking notes and pictures with Q & A session following.
• Discover color character, value, hue, brush loading and more.
• Explore color mixing to achieve any color you can imagine.
• Understand the 5 basic values of color in an object with multiple examples of each and the use of the 3 dimensional color wheel.
• Learn to choose the right colors for ultimate prismatic and analogous properties.
• Achieve perspective with color.

What You’ll Paint:

• Using the finest 300 pound French made De Arches watercolor paper, begin by learning the basics of sketching with a pencil, developing your composition to invite the eye of the viewer into and around your painting.
• Several trade secrets and rules of arrangement will be shared to help you to develop an interesting study with lots of contrasts of color and perspective.
• This painting features a high altitude sky with cirrus clouds, majestic snow covered peaks, distant autumn aspens, snow laden pines and icy rushing water.
• Robert will assist you in creating a distant background, developing the closer mid-ground and finally detailing the interesting foreground.
• You will experience lots of time for discussion, critiques and answers to your questions as Robert provides the detailed coaching necessary to improve and enhance your painting step by step.

What You Will Love:

• Step-by-step guidance and individual attention from a Master Artist with over 50 years of teaching experience.
• Interaction with a world class instructors and fellow students to gain answers and inspire your artistic vision.
• Detailed handouts; lesson plan and diagram key to Robert Garden’s unique brush strokes.
• Highest quality watercolors available and various specialized brushes.
• Developing your confidence on canvas through knowledge and pride in your sense of artistic achievement.