You can contact Barry directly about any of these programs:

phone: 978-464-5307    e-mail: barryvandusen4@gmail.com

2024 Workshops and Teaching schedule:

DRAWING AND PAINTING NATURE

at FIVESPARKS community art collaborative, Harvard, MA

Saturday, April 27, 2024   10am-4pm (with one hour lunch)

This full-day workshop focuses on DRAWING AND PAINTING NATURE SUBJECTS USING PENCILS AND WATERCOLOR PAINTS.   You’ll learn how I use a FIELD SKETCHBOOK to explore and record my outdoor observations, and I’ll show several watercolor FIELD KITS (including a very simple and portable kit for beginners!)

Next, we’ll delve into TONE and COLOR.  We’ll discuss the importance of VALUES, and then proceed to COLOR THEORY and COLOR TEMPERATURE.  We’ll explore ways to MIX COLOR and do some hands-on COLOR MIXING EXERCISES, with an emphasis on important color families for nature artists.  

We’ll finish with some simple watercolor demonstrations aimed at de-mystifying the wash sequence by applying the concepts of LOCAL COLOR and SHADOW PATTERN.  For more information visit: www.fivesparks.org

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