On Aug 16-18 2023, I attended a three day watercolor workshop, hosted by the Georgia Watercolor Society at the Thomasville Center for the Arts. The workshop “Painting Land, Sea and Sky” was lead by Iain Stewart, a sought after watercolor instructor.
Iian is an avid sketcher, and he asked us to bring a sketch book to the workshop. We used the sketch to make pencil sketches, take notes on design ideas, and paint studies and vignettes. This is how every painting we did started.
A list of the watercolors Iian uses was suggested for the workshop. I normally use just 10 colors, and mix what I need from these. But I was interested in seeing how Iian would use these other colors, and this was my opportunity to try them: Cadmium Scarlet, Naples yellow, Undersea green, Cobalt turquoise, Phthalo blue turquoise, Verditer blue, and Lavender.
Iian helped us improve our sketching and painting ability. I learned new techniques and was reminded of techniques I learned long ago but forget to use.
Tomasville is a lovely historic Georgia city. The downtown has several nice local shops, restaurants and drinking establishments. While walking around we looked for the lost quail and one of the oldest live oak trees. We enjoyed tasting some unique drinks at 1861distillery , had a wonderful meal at Chop House on the Bricks and took home some amazing chocolates from sweet cacao chocolates.
