GALLERY CLASSES

 

Robert & Helen Jennette Gallery Classes  

 

 Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Classes 2024
 

2024 Adult Gallery Classes
Schedule – 2024

 October 6 | $45
 Sunday Sampler
 Portraits - Tracy Lynn Ross

 October 20 | $45
 Sunday Sampler
 Live Models – Tracy Lynn Ross

 October 26 | $35
 Try Watercolor with SAWG
 Let’s Paint a Hummingbird – Karen   Brungardt

 November 2 | $35
 Try Watercolor with SAWG
 Desert Botanicals – Liz Iverson

 November 9 | $35
 Try Watercolor with SAWG
 Tip Toe Through the Tulips – Summer   Celeste

 November 10 | $45
 Sunday Sampler
 Exploring Watercolor Pigments - Tracy   Lynn Ross
 

 November 16 | $35
 Try Watercolor with SAWG
 Mountain Scene – Summer Celeste

 November 17 | $45
 Sunday Sampler
 Fall Zen - Job Ellsworth

 November 23 | $35
 Try Watercolor with SAWG
 Birch Trees – Renee Pearson

 Nov. 30- Dec. 7, 14, 18, 28 | $160
 Beginning Watercolor Series
 For beginner and returning artists,
 each week a different subject – Karen   Brungardt

SUNDAY SAMPLER CLASSES
Members Teaching Members

SAWG has an abundance of talented artists that have a unique spin on different subjects and styles to share with other members. On Sundays, we will offer a subject, technique, or medium to “sample” and enhance, expand or enrich your skills. 

We hope you will join us and “sample” a class. There is always something new to learn!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PORTRAITS
Sunday, October 6, 2024, 1 – 4 pm,  $45.00,  Instructor: Tracy Lynn Ross

This class will explore: Human features, what we have in common and what makes each unique, proportions of the face, mixing color and tones in watercolor for portrait painting.

To register for the class, please contact Tracy Lynn Ross at tlross3@yahoo.com or 520-907-8941.
  

LIVE MODELS
Sunday, October 20, 2024, 1 – 4 pm,  $45.00,  Instructor: Tracy Lynn Ross

This class will explore:  Painting from life, proportions of the human figure, tricks for foreshortening.

To register for the class, please contact Tracy Lynn Ross at tlross3@yahoo.com or 520-907-8941.

 
     

Exploring Watercolor Pigments
Sunday, November 10, 2024,10 -1 pm,  $45.00,  Instructor: Tracy Lynn Ross

What’s on your Palette? Do your paints play well together? This class is designed to assist the understanding of watercolor pigment properties and how colors relate to each other and how you might make painting magic with your palette.

This class will explore:

  • Looking at the many pigment characteristics (granulating, transparent, opaque, staining, non-staining pigments)
  • What different manufacturers have to offer.
  • What is lightfastness.
  • Discovering neutrals from complementary colors.
  • Exploring color theory.
  • A bit of color history.
To register for the class, please contact Tracy Lynn Ross at tlross3@yahoo.com or 520-907-8941.
  

Fall Zen
Sunday, November 17, 2024, 2 - 5 pm,  $45.00,  Instructor: Joy Ellsworth

Zentangles are fun!  You can create beautiful images, and will likely enjoy increased focus,creativity, self-confidence, and an inreased sense of well-being.

This Class will explore:
  • Combining pen and ink with watercolor
  • Using Hot pressed watercolor paper with a wet on wet wash.
  • Learning basic pen and ink zentangle techniques and intricate patterns.
  • Combining leaf shapes and silhouettes with zentangles.

To register for the class, please contact Tracy Lynn Ross at tlross3@yahoo.com or 520-907-8941.
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try Watercolor with SAWG

“Try Watercolor with SAWG” classes will be held on Saturday mornings in October and November from 9 am to 12 pm for the price of $35 per person each week. Art supplies are provided by SAWG for use in the class - perfect for those who want to try watercolor without the initial investment of materials. 

We have four talented instructors who will teach different subjects and techniques to beginners interested in how to paint in watercolor. 

For more information, contact the Gallery Classes Registrar, at  galleryclasses@southernazwatercolorguild.com. If needed, Paper Registration here.

October 26 - Karen Brungardt - Let's Paint a Hummingbird     

Everyone loves a hummingbird so let's paint one Together!

I'll show you step-by-step how to do this in watercolor.

Learn more about watercolor techniques, wet on wet painting, and color mixing.

 

 

    

November 2 - Liz Iverson - Desert Botanicals     

We will paint desert botanicals as we explore watercolor techniques and mix dreamy desert colors. You will gain a sense of light vs shadow and create a beautiful painting. Supports such as drawing templates and traceables will be provided to help you create your own unique composition.

 

  
             

November 9 - Summer Celeste - Tip Toe Through the Tulips

Come tip toe through some Parrot Tulips and make a beautiful painting learning layering colors! Teaches glazing, the layering of colors, and negative painting. 

    

November 16 - Summer Celeste - Mountain Scene

Escape to a cool place, if only in your mind and on paper.  So relax and let's make a scene! Teaching perspective, layering of design, wet on wet and wet on dry painting.

  
             

November 23 - Renee Pearson - Birch Trees

We will be using masking tape for the trees which we will remove after we paint the background.  We will then do shadows, tree bark and limbs to shape the trees.  It will be fun and easy!

          

 

 

Beginning Watercolor Series Class  

Beginning Watercolor Class
Teacher: Karen Brungardt 
4-week class, from 1 to 4 pm on Saturdays, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14, and 12/28, 2024. 
 
This 4-week class series focuses on painting one subject each week but with new techniques each time to fully explore the wonders of watercolors and all the interesting ways it can be used. This class is for beginners and for those who want to brush up on skills (rusty or otherwise!). Focusing on different techniques each week, wet on wet, wet on dry, negative painting, lifting, textures, color mixing, and …
 
Pricing: 
Class fee is $160, 4 weeks, 3-hour sessions

 

Students should bring their own supplies, see supply list for what is needed. If you want Karen to provide the supplies, that is an additional fee of $50. 
 
Advance notice on the need of supplies is required.  If you're a continuing student, I suggest you buy your own materials.
 

To register and pay, contact Karen Brungardt directly, kekb67@gmail.com, or 520-825-1845