Author Archives: brendastevens
Six Steps of the Creative Process:
- this is awesome
- this is tricky
- this is terrible
- I’m terrible
- this might be ok
- this is awesome
My watercolor classes begin on January 22nd with a one day Watercolor Crash Course! the Great Blue Heron.
Click on Class Schedule for information about this class and other classes I’m offering between now and spring.
All Fall and early Winter classes have been posted to my website. Several Watercolor Crash Courses, Watercolor Painting One, and Watercolor Painting Two, a Drawing Crash Course, and a Basic Drawing and Painting for Adults class. Something for everyone!
Here We Go … back to the classroom on March 2
Drawing is an essential skill for painters.
Drawing does all the work, but color gets all the glory. Structure and perspective and lighting are the bones of a good painting and those things are learned in drawing classes.
Next Class is on May 04- Drawing Crash Course!
The Drawing Crash Course! on May 04 will be held in the beautiful, historic, Rankin Arts Center,Uptown Columbus. http://www.columbusstate.edu/ce
What’s Next?!
Intermediate Watercolor
Paint landscapes by learning how to render clouds, water, trees and grass fields. Learn ways of achieving the optical illusion of depth. Continue your study of color. Warm primaries will be added to the cool palette used in Beginning Watercolor for an explosion of new mixing possibilities.
February 26 through March 19, Columbus State University, Elizabeth Bradley Turner Center.
What are you really buying?
I don’t know who to attribute this to, but I really like the message and want to share it.
“When you buy something from an artist your’e buying more than an object. You’re buying hundreds of hours of errors and experimentation.You’re buying years of frustration and moments of pure joy. You’re not buying just one thing, you are buying a piece of a heart, a piece of a soul … a small piece of someone else’s life.