Alvaro Castagnet

www.AlvaroCastagnet.net
Impressionist Approach to Watercolor

May 2 - 8, 2010

Medium: Watercolor
Level: Intermediate and Advanced
5-Day Outdoor Class

Alvaro Castagnet believes that mastery of tonal values is the key to volume and depth in watercolor painting. The class begins with discussion followed by a simple "one-go" demonstration. As class progresses, techniques such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, lost and found edges, and color blending are introduced. By mid-week, the focus is on values, with challenging exercises, demonstrations, and critiques of your paintings in progress.

Every day Alvaro conducts critiques of your painting in progress. He walks among the students’ work, giving them friendly advice on how he thinks they could improve their work, to help them make the most of every painting opportunity.

On the last day, there is the final critique session, where every student shows the best painting they have produced, and will go home not only feeling great with their achievement, but realizing how much they have learned after having so much fun, and with a clear understanding of the strength and weakness of their paintings.

This is an opportunity to have fun learning from an energetic and colorful mast of expressive watercolor.

This is an outdoor painting class and Alvaro plans to stay out unless weather is severe!