If you would you like to advance your watercolor skills in a week then I would highly recommend a 3, 4 or 5 full day scheduled workshop from an instructor that does workshops around the country, like those that teach at
Dillman's
You can go the self-teaching route and there are many websites and Youtube videos you can watch to advance your skills, but taking a workshop that lasts a full day for a couple of days will advance your skills so much faster and it's a whole lot more fun than watching a Youtube video.
In my
workshops, you can expect very personalized group and one-on-one teachings. Most of my full day week-long workshops start out the same way, with practicing, warm up exercises. We then all work together on a painting that I choose. If there is enough time in the afternoon I give the students the opportunity to paint their own subject matter and this is when I teach them more one-on-one, but for the benefit of the whole class, I talk loud enough so everyone can hear, this helps so everyone can
benefit from everyone else's struggles.
Each day I go through different subject matter and try to cover most everything that you may come across when painting your subject matter.
Keep in mind that when you are in my workshop, I don't want you to think you are there to just paint pretty pictures, trying to paint the best painting of the week. It isn't a competition and workshops are usually a bad place to try and paint finished works of art. You should
be in the mindset to learn and practice new skills
that later you can use in your studio to paint those pretty finished works of art.
The in classroom workshops are a little different than the traveling tour workshops. A workshop like the one I will be instructing in the
Greek Islands will be a
bit different when it comes to the timetable of when I will be instructing and when we would be painting. When on location or on a tour I have my students bring cameras and watercolor sketchbooks, then when we are back on board or in a classroom traveling to the next location that is when we do our exercises and painting instruction.On a traveling workshop, we have to play it by ear since one never knows exactly what is in store when it comes to the place, weather and the tours we
will be on.
My next workshop will be at
Dillman's June 26th to July1st and if you are interested in taking this workshop I would highly recommend you sign up real soon since I was told last weekend that it is almost full.
If your group or watercolor society would like to book me to do
a workshop or demonstration, please contact me at beckerart@gmail.com
I am looking for testimonials I could use on my website from any student that has taken one of my workshops. If you would like to write me one please send it to beckerart@gmail.com Thank You!
