Let John Muir Laws show you some problem-solving he did around drawing coastal landscapes. Play with different strategies and learn some fast ways to capture the effects of waves hitting the coastal cliffs, using watercolor, a white crayon, and pencil. Read More
Category: Watercolor
Techniques and materials to help you paint with watercolor.
Drawing Amphibians
In this Ask Jack session, John Muir Laws teaches how to draw frogs. Read More
Let’s Draw Warblers: Bring Your Warbler to Life
Make your warbler drawing come to life with tips about feather texture and placement of eyes, and beaks. We will also practice fast-sketching techniques to help you sketch warblers in the field. Read More
Drawing Pinyon Jays
John Muir “Jack” Laws shares his use of the watercolor media on drawings. Jack will present his approach to drawing birds and give us an introduction to color application using watercolor paint. Students may follow along with the color demonstration, or watch, learn, and apply color to their bird sketch later. This workshop also focuses Read More
How to Draw Hummingbirds
Learn how to draw hummingbirds. In this workshop, we explore structure, texture, and how to draw iridescence! Read More
Let’s Draw a Salamander!
In this “Ask Jack” session, join John Muir Laws as he teaches how to draw a salamander and paint it using watercolors and gouache. Read More
Let’s Draw a Stellar’s Jay!
Join John Muir Laws as he walks us through the process of creating a careful illustration of a Stellar’s Jay. We will use a combination of graphite, watercolor, and colored pencil highlights. Read More
Watercolor Hour with Rosalie Haizlett
In this special Nature Journal Club workshop, our guest Rosalie Haizlett shares some of her favorite methods and tricks in watercolor and more, as well as a few of the major roadblocks that beginners face when it comes to watercolor, and how to move beyond them with confidence. Rosalie Haizlett is a recent author who Read More
Oh My Gouache! Part 1
Gouache, an opaque watercolor, has wonderful practical uses but also its own challenges. In this workshop, we will learn Jack’s gouache system and learn how to set up our own gouache palette. What paints should I use? How can I avoid the paint cracking and falling out of the palette? We recommend that you wait Read More
Watercolor Special Effects
Learn how to use and control special effects such as salt, alcohol, wax, frisket, splatter, and more to add texture and pizazz to your paintings. We will explore a variety of fun methods and materials. This is hands-on so get your gear together before the class. Special tools for this workshop: Watercolor kit, brushes, and Read More