What makes a painting come to life? In this workshop, Kristin Meuser will guide you in the exploration of artists' techniques for creating depth in your landscape painting, including contrast, line, detail, size, overlap, color temperature, and color intensity. These techniques can also be applied to cIose focus subjects as well.
Additional Information and Recommended Materials
Please download this handout to reference during the workshop and bring your watercolors to follow along with Kristin as she demonstrates these techniques used by artists worldwide and through the centuries.
Watercolors: Basic watercolor sets containing red/pink, yellow, and blue would work. These are some of the colors used by Kristin that are useful to have for depicting watercolor landscapes.
Quinacridone pink
Hansa Yellow
Phthalo Blue (green shade)
Ultramarine Blue
Pyrilene Green
Quinacridone Gold
Burnt Umber
Shadow Violet
If you would like to order a palette with these specific colors ($32) or the full kit ($70), they are available at www.naturemeuse.com/shop. Please order no later than March 28 to ensure delivery prior to the workshop and time for you to complete the color mixing tutorial at www.naturemeuse.com/video.
About Kristin Meuser
Kristin Meuser has been painting the land for many years throughout California and Nevada. She currently teaches online zoom workshops on essential landscape elements including cacti, mushrooms, flowers, waterfalls, creeks-lakes-rivers, hills-mountains-cliffs, journal page design and more. She moved to Las Vegas in 2018 where her fascination with the desert landscape has flourished in nearby Red Rock Canyon.
Her workshops focus on nurturing a deep connection to nature through the ability to “see" through skill building exercises including color mixing and unique exercises that “demystify” the art and science of drawing, painting and writing. You may find her schedule and further information about her ongoing zoom workshops at www.naturemeuse.com.