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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Topping the tulips--Monday Sketching with ASk--Tulips Second time

Sketching in the cold shelter of a tree line with Tina.

As we settled on a spot to sketch, a group of workers walked by and moved across the rows, snapping off the flower heads of the bulb crop. They left some for visitors to enjoy, but the weather was cold and breezy this time. I KNEW I should have brought my gloves!

We managed to finish our sketches, greet new arrivals from ASk,

then shiver our way to the other side, looking for a warmer spot. 

Fingers frozen, next we sketched in the car with our front row parking spots! Mt. Vernon weather is unpredictable this time of year.

You can just barely make out the workers in the upper right edge of the field.

This was April 6, the second Monday in a row for the Anacortes Sketchers, making sure we didn't miss the extremely early bloom this year.

Out in the sun with tulips

Scored some field tulips after sketching with Anacortes Sketchers on Monday, the sun came out, sketched out on the deck with a friend this morning.

My friend, Anne Elkins, gave me permission to use this photo she took of me while I painted in the field across from Christianson's a week ago, Monday.

Here's a shot from a nearby field nineteen years ago. The workers were topping all the flowers as I painted.

Tulip time

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. :)