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Watercolor |Gouache
Night Skies & Northern Lights
with Margaret Dwyer
Watercolor is the perfect medium for portraying glowing night skies and capturing thefeeling of light. This class will encourage you to blend colors on the paper with dramaticwashes and effective color choices. Add a starry effect for sparkle and simple landscapeelements that will offset your unique night skies. This is a fun subject to explore as weride out the end of winter.
All levels of painters are welcome
Brushes and palettes will be available to use if you do not have your own.
Paper samples will be on hand to try.
Arches paper and tube paint samples can be purchased at the workshop for a materials fee of $10.
Suggested materials list provided if you wish to purchase your own supplies before the workshop.
Margaret Dwyer holds a BFA and MFA in visual art. Her thesis work focused on trauma and its effect on women and creativity. This continued with an on going study of how the unconscious processes trauma. She works with a variety of mediums, but her favorite is watercolor.
Her paintings have been recognized in numerous juried national and international exhibitions and have been published in fine art books and magazines that include: Splash, America’s Best Watercolors - North Light Books - How Did You Paint That? - International Artist Books American Artist Magazine, The Artist’s Magazine, Southwest Art Magazinen and Manhattan Arts Magazine.