Still Life – Watercolor workshop – December 5, 12 & 19, 2024

Still Life Painting: Exploring Impressionistic Watercolor Approaches workshop

with Artist, Jennifer Koury
3-Day Workshop on Thursdays, December 5th, 12th, & 19th, from 9:30am – 12:45pm

The Roycroft Campus – 21 South Grove St. East Aurora, NY

Explore watercolor’s expansive nature to mix and mingle color, using pigment, water and brush techniques. Focus on compositional elements, including shapes and silhouettes, color contrast and focal points, and lost and found edges. Begin each class with a short exercise delving into the elements of painting, composition, and color inspired by master watercolor painters.

Dec. 5– Silhouette and shape inspired by Georgia O’Keefe and Matisse

Dec. 12– Focal points using contrast of value, and mingling paint for beautiful color transitions and color harmony inspired by Sargent and Homer

Dec. 19– Lost and found edges for compositional movement applied to a still life with architectural aspects inspired by Bonnard

Easels and tables are supplied by the Castiglia Art Center. All other materials will be supplied by each individual. A suggested supply list is included on the back of this form.

Materials are not included in the workshop fee. Below is a list of recommended materials.

RECOMMENDED MATERIALS:

• 100% Cotton Watercolor Paper (Suggested brands: Arches, Winsor and Newton, or Saunders Waterford). Please bring at least two pieces of paper per class, one approximately 11×15, and one 11×15 or larger.
• Round #8 and #12 brushes, 1-inch flat, or your favorite brushes (Suggested reasonable value brush 9020 Kingart)
• Professional Grade Watercolor Paints (Daniel Smith, Winsor Newton, Holbein, Schminke)
• Large Palette to mix and mingle paints
• Backing board, water container, masking tape, and paper towels
• Pencils, erasers and sketch paper

The Castiglia Art Center will provide: Easels, tables, taborets, chairs and lights. Please feel free to bring a beverage and/or something to snack on.

Jennifer Koury is a Buffalo-based artist, freelance illustrator, and arts educator. She holds degrees in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and Art Center College of Design, California and has been teaching at various Art Centers around the area.

Koury is represented by Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY. She has exhibited her paintings in both solo and group shows around the region, and won awards, including being finalist in the Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Her art is featured in the NFWS Mary Whyte Gallery Walk video, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Visitor Center in Virginia, and Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona, and her illustrations have appeared in many children’s books. She is a member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, and a signature member of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society.

For more information, please visit her website at jenniferkouryart.com

Class Tuition: $165 = Total $165
Registration is required and seating is limited.

Class will take place at the Castiglia Art Center in the Print Shop on The Roycroft Campus – 21 South Grove St. East Aurora, NY 14052

If you have any questions please call the Roycroft Campus at 716-655-0261 or email us.