Paint a Mountain Stream online with SAS and Julie Gilbert Pollard

Watercolor Unleashed! Paint a Mountain Stream, online Zoom, with Scottsdale Artists' School and Julie Gilbert Pollard

Details:  Learn to paint water that looks wet, reflective, and splashy! With a stunning waterfall, river or creek as your model, paint water as it cascades, then splashes around and over the rocky stream bed. Techniques will be demonstrated to address the various puzzles with which the artist is faced when painting this stunning, fascinating, and challenging subject!

STUDIO LESSONS WILL FOCUS ON:

• Basic “anatomy” of a water cascade, i.e. waterfall, creek…
• Learning to paint rocks that look solid and hard…
• The watercolor painting process – keeping it manageable…
• Watercolor methods and techniques that apply to the subject-matter…
• Gouache and liquid matte acrylic White - as wonderful mediums for expanding our watercolor possibilities - will be demonstrated in a minimal usage manner…
• Using reference photos as inspiration rather than absolute visual fact - maintaining a plein air “feel” and sensitivity in your painting when painting from photos…Note: a reference photo will be supplied, and you will be more than welcome to use that reference OR use your own material OR do BOTH, using one of your paintings to apply the “follow-along” steps to my composition or your own.
• Negative painting lessons for watercolor…
• Creative use of color – color mixing - painting with green - “using color as value” (as seen in my North Light Books and Videos)…

For all workshops, I provide certain PDF documents/articles that I have written and illustrated that apply to the topics being studied – these will be shared with you electronically.

There will be demos, instruction at all levels, critique, and lots of painting time. Class time will be structured, yet open enough to accommodate the artistic spirit within us all. All levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. The only prerequisite is an attitude of joy in the act of painting!

Medium:  Watercolor

Dates & Times:  Nov. 10, 17, 24 and Dec. 1, 8 and 15, 2026, Six Tuesday afternoon classes, 1:00PM-4:00PM, Phoenix time, same as PDT.

Tuition:  $315.00

Register:  HERE