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Online Class: Selective Sketching in Watercolor

  • Tuesday, March 4
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM MT
  • Online

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

Elevate your creativity in design through the playful use of selective sketching and artful abstractions with watercolor.

In this class, participate in sketching exercises that utilize selection and omission to create balanced and structured compositions. Participants will draw inspiration from various visual sources to infuse their work with striking shapes and forms that capture the dynamism found in movements like Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, and De Stijl. Follow along with fun, engaging, and relaxing sketching and painting demonstrations celebrating the joy of creative exploration instead of a final destination.  

This class is open to all levels of art experience. Exercises will be guided for those new to sketching and watercolor.

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

Space is limited, reservations required.

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.

Note that all program times are in Mountain Time.

Supplies needed for this class: 

  • Pencil
  • Sketchbook or drawing paper 
  • Watercolor paper 
  • Watercolor paints. Instructor will use the colors below: Lemon yellow hue or azo yellow, Cadmium orange hue, Cadmium red hue or vermillion, Alizarin crimson, Permanent rose or quinacridone rose, Dioxazine purple, Phtalo blue or prussian, Permanent green light, Burnt sienna, Ivory black.
  • Recommended starter set:
  • Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor Paint Set, 20 Colors (Note: This set uses the same pigments as the professional grade paints, and are lightfast colors. The difference in price with professional grade is the quantity of pigment (pigment load) in the paint.) 
  • Watercolor palette 
  • Paper towel 
  • Paintbrushes (any watercolor or acrylic)
  • Cup of water

About the Instructor:

Photograph of a person with long light hair sitting with their hands crossed a table in an artist's studio. Behind them on the wall are several different types of dried plants pinned up for reference.

A passionate artist and experienced educator, Morgan Jones has spent the last 9 years developing these crafts. She seeks to explore how art can serve as a medium to move us both individually and communally. Her time teaching in public schools, juvenile detention, and community centers has deepened her belief that art is a fundamental means of knowing, connecting, and transforming. In addition to Fine Arts, Morgan studied Art Education at Texas State University as well as Criminal and Social Justice at the College of the Rockies in BC Canada. Morgan’s professional painting practice focuses on plein-air landscape assemblage and multiple exposure oil paintings that call into question ideas of impermanence, memory and conservation. After spending a year living on the road, developing her art from her mobile travel trailer studio, she has settled in Santa Fe to split her time between teaching and creating. Find more about her work on her website or on Instagram at @painting.nomad

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.

Photo by Morgan Jones

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