Online Class: Clouds & Skies for Watercolor Landscapes

  • Monday, March 24
  • 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM MT
  • Online

Space is limited, registration required. Please email contact@gokm.org or call 505-946-1000 for assistance with event registration.

This beginning-to-intermediate level class will help develop and sharpen your skills at creating blended gradients and soft textures for watercolor skies. In the first part of the class, you will be guided through the pictorial concepts around the dramatic tonalities and contrasts that we admire in Georgia O’Keeffe’s clouds and skies. Through interactive demos and instructions, you will then be introduced to the hands-on techniques for creating watercolor gradients as well as resist, blotting, and lifting techniques among others to indicate cloud formations.

This class is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. Children are welcome to participate alongside their adults.

Space is limited, reservations required. Note that all program times are in Mountain Time.

This program will take place via the video conferencing app – ZOOM. Details for accessing the Zoom meeting will be with your receipt upon registering and again sent via email the day prior. Please register in advance in order to access the program.

Supplies needed for this class: 

  • Watercolor tubes in these or similar colors: 1. Hansa Yellow, 2. Indian Yellow or Quinacridone Gold, 3. Cadmium Orange Hue or Vermillion or Pyrrole Orange, 4. Carmine or Madder Lake Deep, 5. Quinacridone Rose or Permanent Rose or Opera Pink, or Opera Rose, 6. Purple/Violet, 7. Ultramarine Blue, 8. Pthalo Blue, Pthalo Blue, or Manganese Blue Hue, 9. Viridian, 10. Sap Green, 11. Leaf Green, 12. Burnt Sienna or Quinacridone Burnt Orange.
  • Recommended brands of watercolor paint tubes:
    • Student/Learner grade: Van Gogh, Grumbacher Academy, or W & N Cotman; 
    • Professional grade: Holbein, M. Graham, Daniel Smith, or Winsor & Newton
  • A 12-well circular palette with a larger center to mix paints. Jones Travel Palette is recommended.
  • A regular #2 pencil (a.k.a.HB) and an eraser
  • Black Sharpie (optional).
  • Round and Flat Watercolor brushes (synthetic ‘Taklon’ brushes are fine):4 to 5 Round brushes in the range of Size 6, 8, 10, 12, 14. Optional: a 1 Flat brush that’s 1⁄2” to 1.5” wide. Royal Soft-Grip Watercolor Round brushes work well.
  • Q-tips and paper towel or pieces of cotton rag. Cut-up pieces from a clean, used t-shirt work well.
  • Masking tape if a watercolor pad is used instead of a watercolor block.
  • 2 to 3 empty glass jars or containers for holding water. Used yogurt containers or wide-mouth smaller glass jars work well.
  • Toothpicks and or a blunt plastic tool such as a disposable plastic knife.
  • Optional: Hair dryer if available, a white wax crayon or a small piece of candle for optional resist techniques, watercolor pencils for additional details.

These items should be available locally or online from Amazon as individual items in the U.S and in Europe or can be purchased online as individual items or as a set for Sudeshna Sengupta’s class-list (U.S. domestic shipping only).

About the Instructor:

Photograph of a person with dark hair tied up smiling in front of a large photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe. The person wears a colorful scarf.

Sudeshna Sengupta’s career as a teaching artist spans multiple decades, continents, and cultures that inform her pedagogy for decolonizing studio art. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1985 from Visva-Bharati University, founded by the first non-European Nobel Laureate (1913) and humanist poet Rabindranath Tagore.

After teaching art and design at the college level in New Delhi, Seattle, and California, she taught at New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, where she established its first intaglio printmaking studio in 1995. Besides the O’Keeffe Museum, Sengupta teaches credit courses with the School of Art & Design of the Santa Fe Community College.

Her etchings and lithographs from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi have been featured in a landmark exhibition on Women Printmakers of India at the NGMA-New Delhi in India. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Association Musée d’Art Contemporain, France; Kala Institute, Berkeley, and more.

Sengupta also conducts workshops, short courses, lectures, and community-based art events focusing on multicultural and intercultural experiences that emphasize human, cultural, and environmental connectedness through creativity.

To learn more, please visit notes-and-doodles.com and visit her Instagram @santafe_online_art_studio

This class is being offered on a sliding scale.

$10 minimal fee.

$20 covers the cost of the class.

$30 covers the cost of the class, plus a contribution to support educational programs.

Upcoming Events

Circular patterns; one with yellow with cream colored dot and red horizontal tail with two blue horizontal waves below.

Event Classes

In-Person Class: Color Theory for Vibrant Watercolors

O'KEEFFE MUSEUM CREATIVITY STUDIO | CORNER OF W MARCY ST AND SHERIDAN ST, SANTA FE, NM

Saturday, July 19

10:00am

Photograph of a child sitting at a table making art with pieces of clay and a paintbrush.

Event Community Events

Abiquiú Back to School Block Party

Welcome Center | 21120 US-84, Abiquiú, NM 87510

Saturday, July 19

3:30pm

Photograph of a person and a child looking at photographic paper together. The child stands while the adult is sitting and they are each holding the photographic paper in the air with a hand.

Event Community Events

Create with O’Keeffe at the Abiquiú Library

El Pueblo de Abiquiú Library and Cultural Center | 29 Co. Rd. 187, Abiquiu, NM 87510

Wednesday, July 23

11:00am