The Dixie Watercolor Society Workshop and Demo

I had a delightful time teaching and presenting at the Dixie Watercolor Society. These students were dedicated painters and jumped right into the different projects we worked on. We talked about bringing life into our portraits and paintings of people, the freedom of painting florals and topped things off with a landscape watercolor.
It was interesting to see the artists that were so timid with their portraits dive into rich color and movement in their floral paintings. It was a nice group to hang out with for three days.

It can be intimidating to paint in front of people and painting babies can be especially hard so I chose the little cutie below to paint. My husband had never sat through one of my demos and said at the first he was worried that I would never be able to pull off the painting. He called it a zombie baby. (His words not mine.) It is like magic to put angle and shape and brush stroke down on paper and suddenly a cute baby appears before your eyes on your paper. I could not wipe the grin off my face each time I looked down at her. And at the end my husband said. “Oooh nice.”

I did not have time to finish the painting at the demo but said I would share the finished product with the Dixie Watercolor Society and you here on the blog. So here she is the unfinished painting and I will post the finished painting next blog post. If you have a watercolor society near you it’s a great opportunity for education and friendship and a chance to display your work at shows. Here is the link for the Utah Watercolor Society and the Dixie Watercolor Society.