Pictured above might be one of my favorite watercolor landscapes in the world. I was surprised to discover it was painted by a local artist, and then later, I was thrilled he was willing to meet me to chat about ideas for the new school. The award winning watercolorist William G Hook is now an instructor at the League, and a regular guest at our Monday night drop in figure drawing sessions.
Upcoming class: Introduction to Watercolor (Starts Wednesday October 26)
watercolor, 6 x 9
watercolor, 12 x 22
watercolor, 11 x 22
Below: Traveling in France – from sketch to painting. [nectar_image_comparison image_url=”2729″ image_2_url=”2734 Below: Hook’s sketchbook pages
Below: Hook demos how you can use the same image for two completely different paintings. [image_with_animation image_url=”2735″ alignment=”” animation=”None William G Hook’s website: http://www.wghook.com/
[image_with_animation image_url=”7749″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Make ink blots by applying paint, ink, ketchup (or anything else around) in a random pattern, then immediately folding and pressing the paper in half. Open the paper back up, and tell us what you see. Share photographs of your Rorschachs and what you see in them (and in others’) …
Day 27 of our 30 day January Creative Challenge was inadvertently a cruel one. Komorebi is a Japanese word for sunlight filtering through the trees. In Seattle, January 27th supplied artists with neither leaves nor sun. Somehow, these innovative artists found their ways.
(2015 photo above by SomanMateo Photography) Katherine Wright and Lendy Hensley are participating in the Kirkland Artists Studio Tour. Katherine is teaching Intro to Watercolor at the League this summer, and Lendy teaches Intro to Oil. Both will have their lovely paintings on display for you to see. Great to see our artistic community is active and …
In recent V. Notes, I have shared some of Carlos San Millan’s favorite painters. So far I’ve posted Kim Frohsin, Mitchell Johnson, Yann Kebbi, Марина Цветаева (Marina Tsvetyeva), and Sangram Majumdar. Today I’m posting Bato Dugarzhapov. Bato is a Russian painter born in 1966. I had his work saved for a V. Note someday. Looks …
William G Hook
Pictured above might be one of my favorite watercolor landscapes in the world. I was surprised to discover it was painted by a local artist, and then later, I was thrilled he was willing to meet me to chat about ideas for the new school. The award winning watercolorist William G Hook is now an instructor at the League, and a regular guest at our Monday night drop in figure drawing sessions.
Upcoming class: Introduction to Watercolor (Starts Wednesday October 26)
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