$65

for adults age 16 and up

Kick start your painting practice with watercolor! Practice seeing and interpreting everyday beauty with watercolor exercises designed to loosen up the brush, sharpen the eye, and simply composition.

The class will include a hand-on introduction to a limited palette, playing with water control, composition and abstraction from life, simplification of value/color, mark making techniques, and the specific challenges of watercolor from life.

Class will take place on the streets and alleys of the historic business nitric on the banks of the Yazoo River in Greenwood, MS. Greenwood is the heart of the MS Delta and offers lots of eye candy and visual inspiration.

There will be demos, painting exercises, discussion, individual instruction.

Workshop includes all supplies - including M Graham Paint and Robert Simmon brushes

Snacks will be provided!

Robin paints on location with watercolor and experiments with foraged wild pigments. She takes a special interest in exploring native habitats on public land in Mississippi. Her lightweight painting system gives her access by foot or kayak to these wild and remote places. Her studio is located just off the square in the historic district of Grenada, Mississippi near Lee Tartt Nature Preserve. Her non profit friends-of-cs.org manages and interprets Chakchiuma Swamp, the natural community within the preserve.