Deb Ward, GWS, OWS, PWS, WSI - WATERCOLOR/WATER MEDIA - My passion is teaching adult “beginners”. Weekly classes in my home; workshops; classes for Cincinnati Recreation Commission. My work is nationally recognized and published - see “Featured” on my sidebar. I’m a Signature Member of Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana state Watercolor Societies, Cincinnati Art Club, past-President of Greater Cincinnati Watercolor Society. Contact info below under “Class Information”

Monday, August 17, 2015

OHIO WATERCOLOR SOCIETY DEMONSTRATION - KATHLEEN CONOVER

On Sunday, August 2, I attended the demonstration by Kathleen Conover in conjunction with the OWS drop off day.  Kathleen was going to have a workshop that following week, and had graciously agreed to give a 2 hour demo on that Sunday.  Since the show is in "my neck of the woods" this year, I'm trying to go to as many of the events as possible (but could not attend the workshop).

Two friends went with me and I dropped my painting and another friend's painting, and then, since we were a bit early, we went into the demo room and helped Kathleen put up a few of her paintings on easels.  She needed that help - she had a broken foot (!) and was able to stand, but needed the aid of a walker which she used like a scooter (!) to get around.

Her demo was straighforward, well thought out and explained clearly.  I'm sure her workshop was very worthwhile, interesting and entertaining - she had a few fun stories she shared with us, and I'll bet she shared more during her workshop!

Kathleen told us that she has very few old, bad paintings any more since she has begun using this technique.   Now she has to borrow them from  her artist friends!

Here are some photos of her delightful presentation.

Loosening paint on an old painting

Adding scribbles from a Caran d'Ache crayon
Adding her "secret formula" . . .
. . . and spreading it around . . .

. . . scraping around for texture 
Another old painting on which she had begun painting - note her value study lower right corner
Adding interest with small areas of paint
At the end of the demo Kathleen held up the painting she had been working on and one that was near
completion - that she had done using the same value study - so that we could compare them.

3 comments:

Sue Marrazzo Fine Art said...

This is so cool to see!!!!!!

Debbie Nolan said...

Deb what a great workshop this looks to be. Inspires me to pull out some of my duds and see what I can do. Read your previous post. So thankful your hubby didn't get hurt. Some angels must have been on duty that day. Hugs

Ginny Stiles said...

I loved this demo!!!
Wonder if the "secret formula" was mostly white gesso? what do you think?