GLWSKETCHWORKS

In celebration of our new book, Virginia Hein and Gail Wong will be giving a workshop focusing on some of the concepts and techniques presen...

  Outside cover and inside liner cover art work.    Table of Contents Page from the first chapter key. Discussion on Color and location. Jus...

These were dramatic sky paintings done both during and after taking Cynthia Armstrong's Experimental Landscape class.  I created an acco...

The third week of the watercolor class through Winslow Art Center and taught by Cynthia Armstrong was about playing with multi media, waterc...

Preorder sale of Spotlight On Nature ends 1/28/2022.  Unfortunately we just found out about this today.  So if you see this order now you wi...

This week we focused on dynamic skies that can be seen just at the perfect time.  So we painted from southwest sunset images.  The challenge...

  I am excited to announce that in May 2022,  The Urban Sketching Handbook: Spotlight on Nature will be coming out.  I co-wrote this book ...

  For the last two weeks I have been taking a painting class from Winslow Art Center .  It is an online class given by Cynthia Armstrong . ...

 This is my first urbansketch for the year.  Although I have been painting, I haven't really sketched in a while.    This was done on Su...

We are back this year with  a Line to Color Workshop in Orange County, CA.  Come join us for a great weekend at San Juan Capistrano and...

My initial inclination is to paint what I see and I tend toward literal representation.  So my first pass at this image was the paint...

This week was more practicing Wet into Wet into Wet technique both in homework and in class. The night scene below was a painting done in T...

The following watercolors were done from photos on Tom Hoffman's Watercolor Homework blog. For each of the paintings I started with the...

Today in Tuesday's watercolor class we tried an exercise to create a variety of greens using a limited palette.  The base colors we used...

Watercolor homework paintings for  Tom Hoffman's Tuesday class. The point of the exercise is to see how forgiving painting the sky can...

Yesterday was a beautiful day in Seattle.   So this was our first chance at painting outdoors for this season.  It was 74 degrees which is v...

I am taking a watercolor class this spring with Tom Hoffman.  Yesterday we studied how far you can go with soft edges in paintings.  Here i...

  Works from Instructors of the Seattle 10x10 program are being exhibited at the Center for Architecture and Desi...

Get out your sketching gear!  Whether you want to start learning how to sketch or have been a long time sketcher, we have the classes for...

Getting ready for the  Urban Sketchers Symposium in Manchester,  my goal is to try to travel light and reduce the amount of sketching gea...