Watercolor Poppies Workshop

Watercolor Poppies in Complimentary Colors Workshop | Friday April 26th, 2024 | 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM | One Day 4-Hour Workshop| $99 + tax |

Paint red poppies this spring in wet-in-wet watercolor to achieve the fresh and fluid look associated with the medium of transparent watercolor.

This workshop will show you how to combine wet-in-wet paint application technique with glazing or layering on top of it to develop emphasis or focal point in composition. With hands-on painting demonstration and individualized interaction, you will also be guided through the theory and practice of utilizing complementary colors for clean and predictable color mixes by positioning the paints on your palette according to the color wheel. You will learn to darken, neutralize, empower, and harmonize your colors by strategically using complementary colors in different proportions for different purposes.

Materials: CLICK to download MATERIALS LIST – PDF file

Levels: All Levels

• Max Students: 10
• Bring Your Own Materials
• No Refunds after Monday April 22nd
• Please park on Maclovia Street between Artisan and Autozone – Please DO NOT park directly behind our building

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Bio:

An internationally exhibited and award-winning painter-printmaker, Sudeshna Sengupta has been teaching in the US since 1989. Her career as a teaching artist spans multiple decades, continents, and cultures that inform her decolonizing art pedagogy, expanding the scope of her teaching beyond the confines of Euro-centric academic norms.

After twenty-five years in southern NM, including in Las Cruces and Alamogordo, where she established NMSU-A’s first Intaglio printmaking program as a faculty in 1995, she has been teaching with the School of Arts at SFCC since moving to Santa Fe a few years ago.

She holds a BFA in Painting (1983) and MFA in Printmaking (1985) from Visva Bharati, an international university in India, founded by the humanist poet-philosopher and the first non-European Nobel-laureate(1913), Rabindranath Tagore.

Her etchings have been collected in museums and galleries in the US, India and Western Europe, including the Association Musee d’Art Contemporain, France; and the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and Artist Trust, Seattle, among others. Besides pursuing studio art and teaching, she presents lectures, workshops, and community-based arts events with civic, cultural, and community organizations in the US and in India, often with an emphasis on cultural connectedness.

Teaching Philosophy:

In my experience as a teaching artist for over three decades, I see teaching studio-art as a meticulously balanced process of bringing out the best in each individual learner rather than repeating one-size-fits-all set of canned content. I believe in a pedagogy of pluralism. My teaching philosophy is to successfully form a truly inclusive classroom-studio environment for art-making, learning, and artistic discoveries. The inclusive and non-threatening environment of my class aims to support and facilitate optimum creative growth in each individual learner through active and engaging group interactions. In doing so, I seek to affirm, recognize, respect, and support the varied learning styles, learning needs, and goals of each learner.

Visit Sudeshna’s Website: https://notes-and-doodles.com/

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