Watercolor Painting: Landscapes, Skies, and Water with Lee Mothes
Sat-Sun, Sept 17-18, 2022 | 9am-4pm both days | Deadline to register: Sept 15 by 4pm
$165/person
Ages 15+
Treat yourself to two days of painting with Lee Mothes! Beginners and returning students are welcome, as well as anyone who wants to try new techniques. Lee will start by demonstrating watercolor techniques in capturing cloud patterns, sunlight-on-water, landforms, foliage, and the sense of distance in hills or mountains. Then the class will start painting. Lee will help each student with setting up colors on a palette, how to use brushes, create washes with colors, plus offer tips on perspective and composition. You may choose to work in graphite pencil, color pencils or ink along with watercolor. Lee will provide a list of drawing and watercolor supplies. You may also bring pastels, color pencils, or ink pens to explore and play with.
About the Instructor: Lee Mothes
Lee grew up by the Pacific Ocean and was enchanted by its shorelines and surf at an early age. As a kid, he began making pencil drawings and attempts at watercolors of the beaches near his home.
After receiving a bachelor’s degree in art in 1980, he worked as a graphic artist and as a carpenter until 1990, when he opened his Oceans and Dreams studio. He returns to the West Coast once or twice a year to promote his work and to get new ideas from actual observation on the beach.
Lee works with watercolors, graphite pencil, and sometimes combined pencil and watercolor. For his larger ocean paintings, he uses acrylic on canvas.
Lee also teaches high-school level watercolor painting and drawing at the Renaissance School in Appleton, Wisconsin.
For more information, feel free to contact Lee at mothesart(at)gmail.com
In the event a workshop is cancelled due to low enrollment, you will be contacted immediately and refunded entirely. Please review our cancellation policy here.
COVID-19 Update*
Here at River Arts, your safety is the most important thing for us. We plan to run in-person studio classes, but with the following safety precautions added:
- A limit of 8 students in each class
- All students will work at their own 6ft table, maintaining social distancing
- Studio staff will clean all surfaces at the end of each day.
- Disposable masks and hand sanitizer will be available to all students free of charge
- Face masks are currently optional. *This policy is subject to change based on most current CDC guidelines at the time of the workshop*
