Description
ACRYLIC GOUACHE SKIES workshop with CAROLYN LATANISION
October 26, 2024, Saturday
Time: 9:30-4:00
$200 member / $225 non-member
It can be challenging even for any watercolor painter to paint an exciting sky. This workshop is for both beginner and experienced artists alike. Using acrylic gouache can help overcome most of the hurdles and create amazing results. Here we’ll explore painting sunset or stormy skies.
Supplies needed:
Holbein Acryla Acrylic Gouache, 20 ml tubes:
Lemon Yellow, Ultramarine Blue Deep, Pure Red
Flat One Inch Brush:
Cheap Joe’s White Synthetic Wash 1” Brush–#CJMFFW-1 (this is 1” wide and 1-1/4 long. Length is important.
#8 and #4 round brushes
Full sheet (22 x 30) Saunders Waterford, Winsor Newton, or Arches watercolor paper.
Paint board or other support for paper
Hair dryer
Small containers for washes. I like the small, round ceramic stacking palettes. They are great for mixing any washes.
Photographs of skies. Bring several so we can decide on the best one. If you don’t have any, I will supply a few. (It’s not plagiarism. The shy changes moment by moment.)
Photographs of simple foregrounds that can be included. (Trees, city skylines, etc. that can be included.
Example of a sky and foreground (which doesn’t need to be this prominent)
Carolyn Latanision Bio
A lifelong painter, Latanision has primarily focused on architecture and its human and social dimensions. In some paintings, people predominate; in others human activity and venerable structures interact to reveal gentle ironies, accidental encounters, and cultural collisions. Some juxtapose the historical and the contemporary; and in the very absence of human activity evoke the eternal and transient nature of human passions and endeavors. Each painting invites viewers to enter the scene, to feel the atmosphere and taste its possibilities in terms of their own perspectives.
Latanision has always been influenced by Japanese art and composition, while at the same time enjoying European traditions, from Dürer to Van Gogh. Growing up in Bethlehem PA, 70 miles from NYC, she visited her grandmother and aunt there and from the early age of four, her first request was always to go to the Metropolitan Museum.
Latanision works in all media, but primarily loves working with water media, exploring its unique challenges and possibilities. As a teacher at her studio in Woburn MA, her students sometimes tell her they want to find a style of doing watercolor, but she tells them the style will find them, to paint what most interests them, and to learn from their own mistakes and mishaps. She has also taught several workshops, including one for the Michigan Watercolor Society.
National Signature Memberships include:
American Watercolor Society
National Watercolor Society
Allied Artists of America
Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, member of Sylvan Grouse Guild
New England Watercolor Society
Cape Cod Art Center, Master Artist
Northeast Watercolor Society
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (NYC)
Rocky Mountain Water Media Society
Philadelphia Watercolor Society
Hudson Valley Art Association
Whiskey Painters of America
Copley Society of Art (Boston MA), Copley Master Artist designation
Website: CarolynLatanision.com