Using water-media demonstrations, Dale Laitinen will show how to simplify landscapes and coastal vistas with big shapes. Buildings, roads, and other human-made structures will be incorporated to complete the paintings. This workshop is directed towards discovering ways to unify the natural and human-made environment with your art. There will be daily hands on painting by each participant with individual instruction and critiques from the instructor.

Workshop Topics:
-Daily painting demos and lectures.
-Abstract design principles that take your water-media landscapes and seascapes to a new level.
-Discover your path to inventive shape making using line, value, contrast, color and texture.
-Easy perspective tricks.
-Useful strategies for painting convincing buildings in the landscape.
-Demonstrations include watercolor and opaque techniques using gesso.
-Develop paintings from sketch to finished brushstroke.