Dillman's Creative Art Workshops - 2011 - Frank Webb

Frank Webb AWS, DF, NWS May 22-28, 2011 (Five Teaching Days)
Watercolor Energies

Returning for the 14th year
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Frank Webb Artwork WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A 5-DAY WEBB WORKSHOP?

Do you love paint? Are you often found hovering over your easel, brush in hand, palette set with clear color, acres of previous papers trailing behind you while aiming to communicate with your unseen audience by means of marks on paper, mindful of difficulties, limitations, countless false starts and failures; yet, dedicated to producing work of higher significance?

If you see yourself in this scenario, then consider joining Frank and other painters in this watercolor painting workshop. All levels of ability are welcome. The single, most important focus will be pictorial design, which includes planning, color, tonal values, expression and visual theme. Demonstrations, one-to-one personal instruction and objective criticism will sharpen your critical powers. Not only will you know, but will know that you know.

Bring along drawings, photos or old paintings to serve as your subjects. With your regular painting gear include a soft pencil and sketch paper to plan exciting designs before painting. If this is a new procedure for you, guidance will be available.

Along with Science, Theology and Philosophy, Art is one of the four grand inquiries. Those bound together by art form some of life’s most significant associations. Expect to meet new friends. When returning from the workshop to the solitude of our own studios we will be recharged by that temporary collaboration with gallant peers.

The following schedule of demonstrations is not meant to obligate you to follow these procedures. I have found that this practice gives a maximum scope to the instruction. Put on your paint on the paper any way you like and your painting will be welcome.

DAY 1
BUILD YOUR PICTURE WITH LAYERS
Here is a key to making your painting glow with mysterious radiance. You can learn in this session to analyze your subject in layers and then paint them one at a time. Transparency is one of watercolor’s greatest characteristics. Shape making is made easier and more fun when we learn to make glorious washes that communicate our delight and decorate our papers with pizzazz and transparency.

DAY 2
WORKING WET INTO WET WITH COLOR GALORE
Color is the daily bread of painting. When one says painting one says color. Is your color merely descriptive and copied in a hum drum way? Learn in this session how to use color with strategy and for the sake of expression. Color is not something that comes from the model but should come from the palette. Let us learn to keep some of the beauty of color that comes out of the tube. Often we corrupt our color with too much niggling.

DAY 3
COLOR PATCHING
We learn from the pointillists of the last century to use broken color that provides vibration and luminosity. This exercise helps to sharpen our grasping the difference between tonal values and color.

DAY 4
PAINTING DARKS FIRST
98% of watercolors are painted from a light to dark sequence. This reverse process enables us to make our dark passages more luminous by using clear color with all the mixing done on the paper. Say goodbye to mixing on the palette where color mixes lose their freshness.

DAY 5
DRIZZELING
Here we will use gravity and hydraulics to mix our color by placing our painting on an easel at an almost vertical angle. Bring an easel this day if possible, but often an upturned chair will suffice. One color painted into another will run down in a very subtle manner that is as gentle a mixing as the caress of a butterfly wing.

Frank Webb has been self-employed as an artist since 1958. He has taught hundreds of painting seminars, worldwide and in 50 states. Frank is a Dolphin Fellow of the American watercolor Society and he has served numerous times on the AWS jury of selection and the jury of awards. He has also lectured twice at the American Watercolor Society and once at the national watercolor society. North Light has published three of his books and he is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in the East. Webb has won more than 110 major awards, and has juried more than 90 national exhibitions. Among his honors is the Medal of Achievement in the Arts by the Philadelphia water Color Society. His works are in many collections, including: The Butler Institute of American Art, The Taiwan Art Education Institute, the Palmer Museum of Penn State University, the Southern Alleghenies Art Museum, and the Tweed Art Museum of the University of Minnesota. He is represented by Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, Maine. Webb is included in “20 Great Watercolor Teachers” by American Artist Magazine.

Frank has contributed articles to The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magic, L’ Art de “Aquarelle, American Artist Watercolor, International Art Magazine and Chinese Watercolor. His affiliations include Master Status in the Transparent Watercolor of America, The Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists and The National Watercolor Society.

Download a PDF of "Get Pizzazz in your Paintings!" a list of teaching aids available from Zack Press, specific to Frank.

Studio: Something for all levels.

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Frank offers a partial tuition scholarship.
Workshop Fee: $515 + tax.
Room & 1 Dinner Fee: $366 + tax.

Class Fees Explained
Workshop Itinerary

San Miguel Allende, 15" x 22"

Port Clyde, 15" x 22"

Wilson Feed Mill, 22" x 30"

Workshop’s itinerary
Sunday 5/22
Check-In to your unit at Dillman’s (check-in time is 3:00)
5:00 Welcome Reception
6:00 Dinner

Monday–Friday 5/23-5/27
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Class in Session

Friday 5/27
4:00 Farewell Champagne Toast

Saturday 5/28
Depart - check-out time is 10:00

Day students are welcome to attend the Welcome Reception and Farewell Reception (included in your package). You are also invited to join the class dinners (additional fee). PAL’s (Participants at large) can vacation at Dillman’s for $50 per night for accommodations. Costs for box lunches and dinners are additional.