Register by:	September 10, 2010
Tuition:	$195 members, $215 non-members
Materials list:	Watercolor Liberation materials list

Woody Hansen's workshops will help you better understand how an artistically simplified approach to color, line, shape and value will have a liberating influence toward dramatically improving your work.

Beginner through advanced painter, whether you prefer to work from a plan, or allow your work to evolve, whether your interest is representational, abstract, semi-abstract, or non-objective, you'll find a positive, "No Bull" appreciative environment in which to exercise, clarify and improve critical thinking, reading and painting skills.

Woody Hansen's watercolor workshops feature daily watercolor demonstrations, brief lectures, appreciative critiques, and time for plenty of hands-on practice, individual guidance, discussion, and participant questions. Workshops are challenging, enjoyable, informative, productive, and -where appropriate - humorous and fun. The demo, painting, and critique atmosphere are relaxed, friendly, and highly conducive to clearly learning the elements of a good painting and developing self-confidence.

Workshop content is adjusted daily to suit the personalized needs and interests of those in attendance. Beyond the basics such as design of the rectangle, shape, value, wet on dry, wet into wet, layering, calligraphy, etc., every workshop offers fresh material and different approaches each day. Woody will explain complex principles, elements, rules and guidelines, in a simple, easy to understand manner. He will help you avoid the photographic ideal, understand the differences between art and craft, while encouraging you to work toward a goal of artistic excellence.

Bring an open mind and Woody will share with you the complexities, truths, misconceptions, and contradictions of watercolor, learned over 40 plus years of painting experience, You will leave this workshop with a better understanding of how simplicity and design can stimulate and inspire your artistic potential.

About Woody Hansen

Woody Hansen has over forty years of watercolor painting experience. During that time he has won numerous awards, taught watercolor classes and workshops, juried art exhibitions, and demonstrated his watercolor technique for many organizations. He was born in California and grew up in the Northern California community of Mt. Shasta, a rural town at the base of 14,161 foot Mount Shasta. He has a home and studio / gallery in Sacramento, California. His work is represented in private and corporate collections throughout the world and on his web site at www.woodyhansen.com.

See also: Gualala Arts Workshop Registration, Payment & Cancellation Policy.

The Gualala Arts Center, located at 46501 Old State Highway 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.

Serving the coastal communities of northern Sonoma & southern Mendocino Counties.