About this Event
Watercolor is a very versatile medium, but often can be daunting, even to advanced artists. Using watercolors, experienced artist and instructor Amy Hibbs will help students create a color chart, discovering new colors and surprising ways to combine the colors we know. This workshop is great for both beginners and experienced watercolorists and even those of us who are watercolor-curious.
Materials:
- Watercolors: any five colors that catch your eye, colors from tubes or pans will work equally well. This exercise is most interesting when you use colors outside the traditional palette.
- Brush: flat brush #8-10 OR round size #4-6
- Mixing dish, palette, or lid of watercolor set
- Lots of water for keeping your brush extra clean between colors. You can use multiple small containers of clean water, or just change one frequently.
- 2-3 paper towels
- Masking tape
- Pencil
- Paper- watercolor paper is best, at least 10x10 inches. If you don’t purchase the materials kit, please have your paper prepared with a 5x5 square grid where each square is about 1.5 inches.
Meet the Instructor
Amy Hibbs is a Northern California native who enjoyed an extended youth in far-flung places before settling in the Bay Area. Her background as a garden instructor strongly informs her understanding of plants; her childhood gardening alongside her mother informs her sensibility; and her travels in Japan inform her aesthetic. She received her MFA from Mills College in Oakland in 2003 and was awarded the graduate affiliate residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2004-2006. She has shown nationally and internationally. She lives in San Jose with her husband and two children.
Statement:
My paintings explore the relationships between people, communities, and the plant life that supports and surrounds them. I collects plant material from locations where it is overlooked or decayed. Street side yard waste, past-due food waste, or spent cemetery bouquets all provide rich material for studying how and what we use, value, and discard. Exploring these concepts, I use a variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. I’m passionate about plants and trees, and I love sharing my enthusiasm with students of all ages.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
School Of Visual Philosophy, 1065 The Alameda, San Jose, United States
USD 10.00 to USD 50.00