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Language of Landscape: Watercolor Workshop Instructor: Dale Laitinen - A Gualala Arts Workshop
Gualala Arts Workshop
Language of Landscape: Watercolor Workshop
Instructor: Dale Laitinen
Friday - Sunday
May 21 - 23, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Language of Landscape: Watercolor Workshop with Dale Laitinen
Register by: April 21, 2010
Tuition: $175 members; $195 non-members
Materials: Watercolor materials
The visual poetry of the landscape as discovered through the watercolor brush is the goal of this workshop.
We will strive to see and paint the landscape and seascape in new ways. This is a design oriented workshop with emphasis on finding shape relationships as well as color layering and drawing. We will work both indoors and outdoors painting directly from nature and indoors using our sketches and photos to rearrange the elements of the landscape.
There will be morning demonstrations and lectures with individual painting and instruction during the day. In the afternoons there will be critiques as warranted. Come prepared to sketch and paint and look forward to seeing your environment in new ways.
About Dale Laitinen
Dale Laitinen is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, and Watercolor West, and is a graduate San Jose State University with a BA in Art with a painting concentration. Although a native of northern Minnesota, Dale has lived most of his life in the Central Valley and foothills of California. Having moved and traveled across the West this landscape figures prominently in his work.
Language of Landscape: Watercolor Workshop with Dale Laitinen One of the signatures of a Laitinen painting is the long view with the natural forms of the topography being one. His works extend to the interaction between structures such as roads, dams, canals, powerhouses, and the natural landscape. In these paintings one might find a concrete dam that spans a river canyon, or a highway that cuts through desert sandstone, or a shadow of a bridge that crawls slowly across a red rock wall.
After college, Dale spent eight years as an independent trucker hauling freight across country. In 1985 he turned to painting fulltime. Some of the periodicals he has been featured in, The Artist's Magazine, Watercolor Magic, Watercolor Magazine, Drawingboard Magazine.
Laitinen's work has been featured in several books, including The Splash Series, Painting with the White of your Paper, The Transparent Watercolor Wheel and more.
He is a past juror of many national and regional exhibitions including Watercolor West, Kentucky Watercolor Society, Utah Watercolor Society, Watercolor Society of Oregon, Red River Watermedia Show, Magnum Opus and many others. An active workshop instructor, Dale has traveled widely in both the U.S. and abroad.
He lives and maintains his painting studio in Mountain Ranch, CA. His website is www.dalelaitinen.com.
See also: Gualala Arts Workshop Registration, Payment & Cancellation Policy.
The Gualala Arts Center, located at 46501 Gualala Road in Gualala, CA,
is open weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and weekends from noon to 4:00 p.m.
Please call (707) 884-1138 for more information, or email info@gualalaarts.org.
Ceruluean Blue
Graham Watercolors
or what is available
French Ultramarine
W & N or Daniel Smith
Cobalt Blue
W & N or Daniel Smith
Quinacridone Red
Daniel Smith
Cadmium Red Med WN
Cadmium Yellow, WN
New Gamboge
Daniel Smith or WN
Quinacridone Gold
Daniel Smith
Quinacridone Burn Orange
Daniel Smith
Yellow Ochre
Daniel Smith or WN
Pthalo Green (Blue Shade)
Daniel Smith
Permanent Alizarin
Crimson
W & N or Daniel Smith
These are my brushes, you can get
these or bring your favorites
Wide brushes are important
#3 or 4 Golden Sceptre II
#6 or 8 Round watercolor brush
1 1/2 inch flat Winsor Newton 965
2 inch Winsor&Newton 965
Watercolor Paper
I use 300lb DArches Rough
22x30 inches You may decide to
paint smaller but bring enough
paper for the workshop.
Pens Pencils and Sketchbooks
I use Micron or staedler pens
that are fiber tipped lightfast,
archival and permanent.
I use a black hardback spiral
sketchbook.
Other Materials
2 Eldajon Palettes or favorite
White Acrylic Gesso
Acrylic painting brushes
Old toothbrush
Water container
Painting board for your paper
plywood or gator board)
Stapler, tape or clamps to secure
paper.
For more info email: laitinen@goldrush.com or 209 754 4003
Daniel Smith Catalog 800-426-6740 Cheap Joes Catalog 800 227 2788
Dale Laitinen
Watermedia Materials List
List is also on
www.dalelaitinen.com
Watercolor Pigments
Brushes
Drawing Materials
Daniel Smith Colors
are ordered through
Daniel Smith INC
800 426 6740
This is a Suggested
l i s t
if you have other
colors and brushes
you use feel free to
bring those.
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LocationGualala Arts Center
46501 Gualala Rd
Gualala, CA 95445
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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