Watercolor Classes on Zoom, Spring 2025

 

Aqua Gifts, Coupeville, WA

2025: 2 Sessions for April/May Watercolor Mini Series - 4 weekly Zoom watercolor classes live and interactive  online - Recordings Available 

Session 1

Wednesdays 6-9pm PDT

4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30-2025

Tuition: $165 for 4 classes on Zoom

Payable by Zelle, check **

Session 2

Wednesdays 6-9pm PDT

5/14, 5/21, 5/28, 6/4-2025

Tuition: $165 for 4 classes on Zoom

Payable by Zelle, check **

Format and details:

• This is a live online group watercolor class.
• All levels are welcome.
• Live lessons will be recorded and available for replay.
• You may register for the recordings if the time is not convenient.
• Among other skills we will be focusing on flowers, spring landscape,& more
• Each lesson will be approximately 3 hours including a 1 hour offline assignment.
• You will be able to see a close view of the instructor's workspace.
• You will be able to share your work in a private online notice board with other students.
• You will receive a supplemental email each week with a homework assignment.
• All handouts, links and recordings are found in the course portal.

**Enroll now:

Please send $165 for April/May 2025 watercolor mini series on Zoom (4 weekly classes)

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Tulip Day

My extremely modest ‘rows’ of tulips

 I’m thinking about our daughter in California today, whose favorite flower is the tulip. When she was a child, our family would go out to the fields where thousands of tulips made a colorful patchwork as far as you could see. We were allowed to park along the roadside then. Kodak would choose a particularly dramatic view and build a platform for anyone to climb up and get some great snapshots.

Today we are under “shelter at home” self isolation because of the Covid-19 pandemic.  California has not been under this quarantine as long as we have. I have been self in self isolation since March 28! If that is what it takes to protect ourselves and others from infection, then that is what we’ll do!

In the Skagit Valley they are already clipping off the tulip heads to promote the development of the underground bulbs. We are discouraged from venturing out to the tulip fields and causing traffic problems for the locals. So today I offer my modest little “field”.  I’ve left them to bloom beside the road for those on neighborhood walks to enjoy. Later today, difficult as it will be, I will cut these flowers down so that they will grow and propagate next year. I am pleasantly surprised that our feral rabbits haven’t already munched these down!

Again! Despite warnings to stay out of the rows, the studio mannequin can’t resist stepping in to get a few selfies.

New YouTube Tutorial and Sketchbook Flipthrough

 I made this sketchbook for a friend so I have blue taped over the name on the tag.

See inside 3 new accordion style sketchbooks that fit into your pocket for on the go sketching anywhere! I just uploaded a new YouTube tutorial with a Bonus Flipthrough of one of my watercolor sketchbooks at the end.  Give me a thumbs up if you like it!              

Watch a full tutorial and see inside 3 new accordion style sketchbooks 

Look inside for ideas on gift sketchbooks

     Naturally, you wouldn't use the sketchbook with a heavy refrigerator magnet still in it!            

Sketchers at the Tulip Fields

Two more days until the "official" opening of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival and the fields are at peak already. Anacortes sketchers met across from Christianson's Nursery in Mt Vernon today at what may be the ultimate field this year.

Spring has sprung! 68 degrees and color everywhere !

Update: My friend and fellow artist took a photo of me painting this sketch. See it here.

ASk sketching in the tulip fields today. A trophy shot of my sketch in progress.

A bystander asked if we all wanted our photo together, I gave her my camera, she took two photos and I have no idea what happened to them. I should have checked to see if she pushed the right button, I guess.

I did get some photos of Anne and Joyce sitting on their portable camp stools very close to the mud! and our group photo of sketches, a distant view of the group putting their work at the end of a row and a trophy shot of my sketch in progress.

Plain air Watercolor at the tulip fields

Some of my painting buddies are out there on location today even as I post this. I wish I could be there with you but there's too much class preparation for me to do in the studio today. I am there with you in spirit. Always have been. In fact this photo is from May 1996. :)