Tag: Catherine Watters

  • Tuesday, August 11 – Thursday, August 13, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Luminous Fruit: Highlights and Reflected Light

    Capture the glow of summer fruit by balancing highlights, shadows and reflected light to make your subject luminous. In this Wellesley Botanic Garden seminar designed for artists from advanced beginner to expert, Catherine Watters will teach you how to observe, measure and raw your subject, followed by careful and accurate color mixing using the Double Primary Color Bias Wheel. You are then ready to paint and capture the elegant shape, bold colors and textures using proper lighting to make your fruit come to life. Please note: choose to work on paper or vellum. For those more advanced artists wishing to work on calfskin vellum, Catherine will teach you her vellum dry brush technique. Vellum is not included in the registration fee ($395 for Friends of Wellesley Botanic Garden members, $495 for nonmembers) for this seminar. Contact the Friends office in advance to order a piece from Catherine. The class will take place at the Botanic Gardens on Tuesday through Thursday, August 11 – 13, from 9:30 am – 3:30 pm. To register, call 781-283-3094.

  • Tuesday, August 5 – Thursday, August 7, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Summer Flowers with Catherine Watters

    Master botanical composition with the Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens in a three day course August 5 – 7 at the Visitors Center of the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens.  Are you stymied when attempting to capture the beauty and grace of your favorite summer flowers?  Whether trying to portray a single flower or a garden bouquet, discover the nuance of botanical composition with Catherine Watters.  Analyze elements of composition with a focus on shape, structure and negative space, and then paint your composition.  Catherine will also discuss mixing colors as well as balancing light and shadow to make your painting come to life.  $395 for Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, $495 for nonmembers. Register by calling 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

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