New! Keeping it Loose in Watercolor
Adult Course | Registration opens 8/5/2025 10:00 AM MDT
Teaming up water, paint, paper, and brush can create a loose, expressive painting but without planning it can become a muddy mess. Combining structure with spontaneity, learn to paint shapes, not objects, to capture the essence of the subject. Discover how spattering, scumbling, and liberal use of white paper contributes to more movement and energetic effects. Practice bold confident brushstrokes, paint drips, and color mingling to communicate visually with suggestions rather than precise detail. Let loose to create novel paintings that breathe with freedom and fluidity! In addition to developing skills using color, value, shapes, and edges, students will feel confident using a variety of painting techniques and gain and understanding of movement in a painting.
Reference material will be provided. Introductory watercolor experience needed.
WEEK 1: White House with Flowers and Blue Trees
WEEK 2: Windowsill with Bouquet
WEEK 3: Intimate Window with Ivy and Flower Pot
WEEK 4: Greek Street Scene with Whitewashed Buildings
- Introductory watercolor experience needed
Watercolor palette with lid
Watercolor paper or watercolor block (9”x 12” or larger) - 140lb cold press
Watercolor brushes (#6 and #8 round, 1” to 1-1/2” flat)
Water container spray bottle
Tissues without lotion OR paper towels
Watercolor paint colors including:
Cadmium red
Alizarin crimson
Cadmium yellow
Lemon yellow
Yellow ochre
Burnt sienna
Raw umber
Olive green
Cerulean blue
Ultramarine blue
Cobalt violet
Mineral violet
Dennis Pendleton
BFA, Ohio State University Pendleton has been published in The Artist's Magazine, Southwest Art and Contemporary Artists of the American West, 5280 Magazine and Watercolor Magazine. He lectures nationally on watercolor history, watercolor techniques and cave paintings, and teaches workshops at various locations. Dennis has gallery representation through Elements 5280 Gallery in Denver and The Fechin Museum in Taos New Mexico. His work is in select collections such as the People's Republic of China, American Embassy in France, Kaiser Permanente in Louisville, Kaiser Permanente in Lone Tree, The Petroleum Club, Cherry Creek Bank, Norwest Bank, and First Bank. As well, his work is the collections of the Columbus Museum of Fine Art, A R Mitchell Museum, and Fine Art Museum at The Ohio State University. Dennis has taught at ASLD for 22 years and teaches workshops in the United States and Europe.