Online Class: Botanical Studies in Watercolor

  • Wednesday, March 26
  • 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.

Dive into botanical studies inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe by using watercolor to capture the beauty of flowers and plant life. The class will focus on translating observation into expressive forms while interpreting nature through a blend of realism and abstraction.  

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 profession 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

Upcoming Events

Watercolor dominated by the glow of a pale yellow star, over a dark blue landscape. The entire pictorial surface is filled with bands of fluid blue and red and orange hues, which radiate outward from the pale yellow star in the upper left of the composition.

Event Community Events

"Georgia O'Keeffe: the Brightness of Light" Screening

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

Thursday, May 1

5:00pm

Large lavender-purple flower in center foreground with dark arc above. Purple flower buds lower left. The diagonal arc is concealing the lower part of a second purple flower in upper half of painting.

Event Classes

Online Class: Springtime Watercolor Greeting Cards & Bookmarks

Online

Friday, May 2

1:00pm

A young child at a table covered in colorful rolls of tape. The photo is taken from behind as the child looks down at the rolls. In the background are a few adults and other children.

Event Community Events

Fine Art Friday at the Santa Fe Children's Museum: Pull Open Piñatas

1050 OLD PECOS TRAIL, SANTA FE, NM 87505

Friday, May 2

2:00pm