​LANDSCAPE WORKSHOP  
April 8th, 2017
St. Margaret of Scotland Anglican Church in North End of Halifax

This workshop will be as much about what you don’t paint than what you do paint.  Watercolors sparkle when lots of white paper is left to describe light.  As a method teacher rather than a subject teacher, you will learn that as you continue to add water and pigment to the surface of your work, paintings actually develop their own personality.  Maintaining your whites, creating negative shapes, applying soft and hard edges all give impact and interest and are just a few of the subjects covered. 
​        Most of the morning is spent on exercises working out details of different segments of the painting we will be doing.  This method of teaching has proven to be invaluable as a type of “practice shot before hitting the ball” (metaphorically speaking).
Throughout the workshop every aspect of our painting from composition to color mixing to knowing when to stop will be addressed and demonstrated. The paintings shown are a few examples