Session 1: Feb 6-27, Session 2: Mar 5-26 - Mondays, 12:30-3:30 pm
Session 1: February 6-27
Session 2: March 5-26
Mondays,12:30-3:30 PM
Month: M $100/NM $120; limit 20 (weekly $30/$35)
Sponsored by Stone Soup Gallery and Frame Shop
Learn a new approach to this versatile medium from one of the island’s best watercolorists and instructors, with over 20 years professional dedication to the craft, lighthearted Callahan, known for his use of color, rendering skills and portraits of man’s best friend, will bring indoors to the studios his motto “if it’s not fun why do it” for an enlightened experience. Designed to build confidence and technique — for the beginner who wants to try the medium to the intermediate painter who wants to go further — Callahan’s engaging demonstrations each week will present fresh subject matter while lessoning the challenge the medium presents.
Enroll Online
Session 1: February (month)
- To enroll in February sessions, please call the TSKW Program Office at 305-296-0458.
Session 2: March (month)
- Please call the TSKW Program Office at 305-296-0458 to enroll in individual classes.
- SUPPLY LIST
Watercolor Mondays with Sean CallahanPencil- hard like H or HB
kneaded erasure
brushes – 0,2,4,6,8
watercolor paint – Artist grade, tubes preferably- I like Daniel Smith paints.
watercolor paper – important to get Arches 140 or 300lbs, a block of watercolor paper would be ideal. 12×16 or bigger. I prefer Hot press for my style of painting.
palette that has a lid and plenty of room to mix colors.
QUOTES
1. “Water is the vehicle that moves the paint.” 2. “Do not sit down with the intention of framing the painting you are about to
start…..no one needs that kind of pressure and it only holds you back from
making beautiful mistakes and learning.” 3. “Painting in watercolor is like any medium the more you do it the more
confidence you build, and with more confidence comes confident brush strokes and color choices. The only way to do this is JUST DO IT ! In this respect you are the Captain of your own ship…..you will get better the more you sit down and do it. “
QUESTIONS
What excites you about teaching ?
I love watercolor and sharing what I know about it. My favorite part of the teaching process is those lightbulb moments that the students get each at their own pace and it happens throughout. I remember those lightbulb moments and remember how they feel….to be the one that leads someone to that is an awesome feeling.
What will participants come away with from this experience ?
My goal is to inspire the students and get them excited to paint in watercolor. They will leave with a basic understanding of how watercolor works, the tools and how to use them, and be able to look at watercolor paintings and say “I know how they did that !” and hopefully “I want to go home and paint and see what I can do !”
What informs your own work/ whose work influences you ?
As for my own work I am very interested in painting a body of work each year that tells a story…..narrative painting. Finding a thread that connects all of the paintings as a whole. The title of the show this year is “Living at the end of the world” and is loosely based on the book “Lord of the flies” . In my version the boys donʼt get rescued but grow up to become men living as a tribe on a island in harmony. I have taken this idea as my thread. I am using Key West and Provincetown MA. as the backdrop to paint these paintings which are both considered “End of the world” places. In each place the road comes to an end and both places have a magical aspect to them. While in South America last year I went to Terra del Fuego which literally is the end of the world and researched a tribe that lived there. I am using some of their tribal patterns on the models I am using to do these paintings. So this is my process and how I create a show.
My influences as a painter are Andrew Wyeth, and Winslow Homer. Looking at their watercolors always blows me away. As far as present day Artists that excite me are artistʼs that when I look at their work I know it is them. They have their own style and point of view. Some of the Artists that turn me on happen to live in Key West…I am a big fan of Michael Palmers work. Marlene Koenigʼs encaustics are very interesting. Both these artists bring you to a place that makes you feel something.Watercolor Mondays with Sean Callahan
