Watercolor: Simple, Fast & Focused - Mel Stabin
Description: Mel Stabin, AWS, NWS, an internationally known teacher, author, and award-winning watercolorist, creates a casual, friendly atmosphere allowing an easy, open dialogue with his students making each workshop a joyful experience.
This five-day, outdoor on location watercolor workshop, painting landscapes and people in landscapes, will reflect the title of Mel's book, Watercolor: Simple, Fast, and Focused. Emphasis will be on design principles with the objective of building strong paintings by seeing and thinking simply, painting quickly and energetically, and focusing on the "idea" of the painting. Mel paints in a loose, representational style. Design, composition, and color/value relationships will be discussed throughout.
The workshop includes daily demonstrations with a step-by-step simple explanation of solutions to every problem presented by the subject, personal instruction, and critiques.
The class is designed for beginners to advanced painters.
Dates: Monday-Friday, July 14 - 18, 2008, 9:30-4pm
Fees: $650 for Members, $675 for Nonmembers
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Instructor Bio: Mel Stabin, AWS, NWS is an internationally known teacher, author, and award-winning watercolorist. A graduate of Pratt Institute, Mel studied the art of watercolor with Edgar Whitney. For over thirty years Mel was an award-winning art director and creative director for major advertising agencies in New York City. He is a signature member of prestigious art societies including the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Watercolor West, and The Allied Artists of America.
For twenty years Mel has conducted watercolor workshops with groups on location throughout the country and abroad, and for numerous art societies.
LYME ART ASSOCIATION
90 Lyme Street, P. O. Box 222, Old Lyme, Connecticut 06371
Phone: 860-434-7802 | Fax: 860-434-7461|
Email: info@lymeartassociation.org
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10-5, Sundays, 1-5, Closed Mondays