Let’s take a look at what goes on in the Young Artist Studio watercolor workshop.
Session #1: Fresh start! New exhibition and new faces, with some returning, ones of course. First things first we enter the new exhibition and after everyone creates an identity card they will be put on the Faceboard in the studio. With this we have created a community!
Session #2: We want to start introducing the primary medium we will be using for this workshop which is watercolor! To do this we made stencils that we brought to life through the application of watercolor. This promotes experimentation and provides ideas of the prior knowledge everyone has with the medium. We created creatures for the stencils and we got some promising critters!
Session #3: We are getting into prime time! Everyone is still working hard on their stencils. What will we do with these beautiful creatures you may ask? We are participating in Art Drop Day! The stencils we finish we will drop around the Santa Fe Art District!
Session #4: This is the first week we start our gallery encounters. We will walk through the gallery to inquire about a specific artist, Natascha Seideneck. Students took time to examine her artwork. Then we will have a group discussions that includes questions, concerns, and thoughts! In the studio we will start to get into some watercolor magic. Together we will learn different techniques of how to apply water color! For example wet on wet,dry on dry, variegated wash and many more. Each person will then use at least two of their absolute favorite techniques in one page in their sketchbook.
Session #5: Today we will be looking at Anna Mckee! Individually we will observe the piece and then collectively discuss our thoughts and questions. As we return to the studio, the next technique we are going to dive into is creating value! How can we use water color to our advantage? We will also play with the blending of one color with another to make a “color wheel” but each student make the shape their own!
Session #6: The Artist of the day is Vibha Galhotra. As usual we dive into the artist and their work! As we got back into the gears of art making we start to learn about resistance. We experiment with the different ways we can get watercolor to resist, we use salt, oil pastels, and tape. Each student then uses one resistance technique to make an image!
Session #7: The artist of the day is Cannupa Hanska Luger, and we do our regular routine when visiting an artist in the gallery!We will focus on bservation of objects. We use watercolors to translate the objects form, we change the original color of the object so see value of color better.
Session #8: The artist we looked at today is Aurora Robson, as we go out into the gallery, we do our regular routine. As we head back to the studio we pick back up with our observation! After we complete our observations we will do a 2 minute thought experiment. For two minutes write about: “How do you effect water? and how does water affect you?”
Session #9: Today is the day we start our ideation for the final project for the workshop! We will use the whole session for sketching and exploring ideas in response the Session #8 ideation.
Session #10: Today we continue on with exploring and creating ideas for the project. Some have even started on their projects.
Session 11#: Now here we are! Working hard on our projects! Working together to try and get the our visions realized!
Session #12: As we get closer to the end of our watercolor sessions everyone one is working hard on trying to finish their pieces! New Ideas and approaches for compositions are starting to be developed!
Session #13: Work! Work! Work! We continue working on our pieces as the final day gets closer and closer.
Session #14: In our final days everyone is very far into their projects and are approaching the finish line! As we get closer to our deadline we start to think about titles an artist statement! We define what an artist statement looks. How can we as artist let the viewer know whats going on in our pieces and the thinking that goes into our work?
Session #15: LAST WORK DAY! Everyones putting their final touches on their works and everything’s looking great! Some finish their pieces and start to dig into their artist statements and titles! We are all very excited to see each others work!
Session #16: Critique Day! we are finally here after all or our hard work! A few people get 30 minute before critique to start or finish their artist statements and final touches on their work. After that we set up all of our pieces around the class room! After we all have a discussion about each others work. What do we think the artist intentions were? What types of techniques or approaches did the artist explore? The artist then shares their thinking behind their work.
Inside Critique!!
Everyone did an amazing job during this workshop! We all got to learn a lot from each other and the exhibition! We got to see some great work done by our peers, and we have created a great community! Heres all the work done during the workshop!