Monet, Cezanne, VanGogh with Watermedia

MONET, CÉZANNE, VAN GOGH WITH WATERMEDIA - Susan Giannantonio
Watercolor Art Society-Houston
1601 West Alabama at Mandell, Houston, TX 77006
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Friday afternoons, January 26, February 9, 16, 23

2:00-5:00 pm     $150 Wash Member, $190 Non-member

 We can learn so much from the masters about beautiful application of color.  Here’s our chance to apply some of their techniques to our own favorite painting themes. Work in your preferred watermedia; demos will cover acrylic and watercolor.  All levels welcome.

Questions?  Contact Lucholiz@gmail.com, www.susangiannantonio.com

Supply List

• Paper: At least one watercolor pad, 9 x 12” or 10 x 14” of any favorite weight or brand.  I enjoy painting on d’Arches rough.  You might prefer cold press.  You will need at least 1 full tablet.  If you like to paint larger, you are welcome to do so.  If you like to paint on canvas, you are welcome to do so. If you want to use full sheets, great!
  
• Favorite watermedia. You may paint in watercolor and/or acrylics.  Demos will primarily be painted in watercolor with at least one demo painted in a watercolor style with acrylics.
• Brushes: a variety of favorites from small to large, according to the medium you’ll be using
• Wax: piece of candle
• Blue construction tape or drafting tape
• Toweling or paper towels
• 12-24 sheets printer paper or sketchbook at least as large as printer paper
• Pencil
• Any resource photos you’d enjoy interpreting in the style of these masters. 
• Spray bottle

If you have questions about materials, please contact Susan at Lucholiz@gmail.com for guidance

Surprise Yourself with Impressionism: Florals, Interiors, Still Life

Susan Giannantonio, www.susangiannantonio.com, 713 942-9966 (WAS-H)

Tuesdays, 

Feb 7, 14, 21, 28

1:00-4:00 pm

$150

Explore innovative ways to guarantee a loose, gestural watermedia style. The class will cover techniques to assist you in applying the Masters’ styles to your own resource photos. This month we will paint florals, still life & interiors, and botanicals. (This class is different from the January class, with different subjects.)

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• Schedule
  4 sessions
• #1.
  07 Feb 2017, 1:00 PM 4:00 PM
• #2.
  14 Feb 2017, 1:00 PM 4:00 PM
• #3.
  21 Feb 2017, 1:00 PM 4:00 PM
• #4.
  28 Feb 2017, 1:00 PM 4:00 PM
• Location
  WAS-H 1601 West Alabama at Mandell, Houston, TX 77006
  WAS-H Member – $150.00 (USD)Non-member – $190.00 (USD)Non-member registration fee is an additional $10.00 per day

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

SUPPLY LIST:

• Several small sheets or a tablet of your favorite WC paper approx 9 x 12 or thereabouts
• Favorite watercolors
• A small variety of drawing tools.   Pencil, permanent pen(s), a marker or 2 of various sizes
• Sketchbook
  
  The following items are optional if you have them around the house:
• An old wood handled watercolor brush  
• Small piece of medium grade sandpaper
• small piece of white candle.  Birthday candles work.
• tissues

Surprise Yourself with Impressionism: Landscapes and Seascapes

Susan Giannantonio, www.susangiannantonio.com, 713 942-9966 (WAS-H)

Email Susan at LUCHOLIZ@gmail.com 

Watercolor Art Society-Houston

Tuesdays, Jan 3, 10, 17, 24

1:00-4:00 pm

$150

Explore innovative ways to guarantee a loose, gestural watermedia style. My philosophy embraces the idea that the fun shows up in the painting!  The viewer can often see whether you labored over a painting or you had a great time painting it.  If you trust yourself to enjoy the process, the product will eventually follow.

The class will cover techniques to assist you in applying the masters’ styles to your own resource photos. This month we will paint landscapes and seascapes, with and without figures.  We will be doing quick, fun (and sometime funny!) exercises with the emphasis on FUN!  Supply list below. (A second, separate class with different subjects is offered in February).

• Start
  03 Jan 2017
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• End
  24 Jan 2017
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• Schedule
  4 sessions
• #1.
  03 Jan 2017, 1:00 PM 4:00 PM
• #2.
  10 Jan 2017, 1:00 PM 4:00 PM
• #3.
  17 Jan 2017, 1:00 PM 4:00 PM
• #4.
  24 Jan 2017, 1:00 PM 4:00 PM
• Location
  Watercolor Art Society-Houston
  1601 West Alabama at Mandell, Houston, TX 77006

Registration Click HERE and scroll to bottom of page

• Member – $150.00 (USD)
  Member Registration
• Non-member – $190.00 (USD)
  Non-member registration fee is an additional $10.00 per day
  
  SUPPLY LIST:
• Several small sheets or a tablet of your favorite WC paper approx 9 x 12 or thereabouts
• Favorite watercolors
• A small variety of drawing tools.   Pencil, permanent pen(s), a marker or 2 of various sizes
• Sketchbook
  
  The following items are optional if you have them around the house:
• An old wood handled watercolor brush  
• Small piece of medium grade sandpaper
• small piece of white candle.  Birthday candles work.
• tissues

Susan Giannantonio's Classes November 2016 - February 2017

Have some fun-filled Wednesday afternoons and loosen up your watercolor paintings.... View this email in your browser

New Classes Start November 16! There have been so many painting inspirations in my life through the summer and fall, I can't wait to share them with students and friends!  Sign up ASAP on this form because I only have a few seats in my small home studio.  Each lesson stands alone and is not dependent on previous classes so sign up as your schedule allows.  All levels welcome!  Questions?  281 347-9043.  To register, click HERE

Classes on Impressionism/Post Impressionism will be held Tuesday afternoons throughout January and February at the Watercolor Art Society-Houston.  I will forward a registration form as soon as WAS-H posts it on their website.  Feel free to check out their many wonderful classes and programs at http://www.watercolorhouston.org   www.susangiannantonio.com I'd like to invite you to visit my webpage and see a wonderful group of paintings that our France painters painted in a round-robin, collaborative "experiment" that produced beautiful results!  Click HERE for a slideshow of the collaborative paintings.

Enroll Now for Susan Giannantonio's 2016 Botanical Classes

Botanical Class

Coming Up:

Watercolor Art Society-Houston
Monday and Tuesday. April 11 & 12 
9:30-3:30, $100 for 2 day workshop
Register Here

If you haven't tried this type of painting, you are missing out on lots of fun.  It is more like play time.  Are you looking for new, fresh ways to depict the beauty of landscapes and gardens?  Try these fresh and loosely rendered techniques that almost paint themselves!  Subscribe now!

A rather unusual supply list is below, or email Susan: LuchoLiz@gmail.com.

Supply List:

• Leaves:  Freshly cut plants with printable veins, cut within 24 hours and flattened in a book. You may want to weigh down the book overnight. For best results, keep the plants flat in the book until we use them in class.  Ferns and grasses, trees and bushes with prominent veining on their back side work beautifully.  Also, interesting leaf shapes are lovely even without veining.
• Masking or painter's tape
• Watercolor pencils (otional)
• Rocks, flat glass marbles (floral arranging marbles), or weights for plants.  May be bought at most Dollar-type stores
• A baggie of fresh grass from your yard
• Watercolors
• A pad of watercolor paper.  We will do multiple paintings.
• Spray bottle or mist bottle of water
• Bottle of diluted dish detergent or shampoo
• White gouache (optional)
• White acrylic paint or paint marker(s) (optional)
• Paint cloths, rags or paper towels (I use terrycloth)

Katy, TX 3 Week "Sketchbook Habit" Class through December 2015

Set a Sketchbook Habit!

Susan Giannantonio's Katy, TX Studio 
Space is limited!  Sign up here:

www.susangiannantonio.com 

Monday afternoons, December 7, 14 and 28, 2015

Why explore sketchbook methods and materials?

If you want to be a committed artist, it is important to keep your hand busy in your craft!  "Time in the saddle" is the only sure-fire way to improve your skills.

Whether you are planning to take a trip,  a museum jaunt or a week-long vacation, a sketchbook is a way to make a special connection with your experiences.  Equally importantly, it becomes a treasured memory trove where your journeys' special moments are captured. 

Truth is, on your day-to-day jaunts or even around your home and garden, a sketchbook "habit" is a simple way to make significant improvements in your drawing and sketching skills, a place to record artistic goals, to make thumbnails and painting plans, write notes from art lectures and demos.  The list goes on! 

Join us Monday afternoons in December.  See and try examples of papers and mediums (pens, pencils, paints, etc.) that work best for sketching.  Look at some fascinating examples of how other artists have used sketchbooking to improve their artistic skills.  

Make new habits to create lasting memories. Bring your ideas to share! All levels.

Sketchbook Travels One-Day Workshop

Susan Giannantonio, www.susangiannantonio.com 

Sunday January 17, 1:00-4:00 pm, $40

Watercolor Art Society-Houston

1601 West Alabama

713 942-9966

Registration will soon be available so check back here or go to www.watercolorhouston.org.

Why explore sketchbook methods and materials?

If you want to be a committed artist, it is important to keep your hand busy in your craft!  "Time in the saddle" is the only sure-fire way to improve your skills.

Whether you are planning to take a trip,  a museum jaunt or a week-long vacation, a sketchbook is a way to make a special connection with your experiences.  Equally importantly, it becomes a treasured memory trove where your journeys' special moments are captured. 

Truth is, on your day-to-day jaunts or even around your home and garden, a sketchbook "habit" is a simple way to make significant improvements in your drawing and sketching skills, a place to record artistic goals, to make thumbnails and painting plans, write notes from art lectures and demos.  The list goes on! 

Join us Sunday, January 17.  See and try examples of papers and mediums (pens, pencils, paints, etc.) that work best for sketching.  Look at some fascinating examples of how other artists have used sketchbooking to improve their artistic skills.  

Make new habits to create lasting memories. Bring your ideas to share! All levels.