Thursday, October 24, 2024
5:00—7:00pm
$32 Member | $40 Non-Member
Watercolor painting can take some getting used to. Dan will focus on using watercolor as a way to shade, in a method similar to charcoal or conté crayon, and focus less on color. This is a method Dan uses when he wants to concentrate on shading without the distraction of variations of hues. This will allow students to focus on how the water and the pigment work together in a watercolor painting. Students will learn how to work with hard & soft edges, and how to control the paint to avoid unwanted effects.
About the Artist:
Dan Shanahan paints with a figure drawing group every week, plein air paints during the summer, and creates illustrative painting, with watercolor. Dan’s degree is in Mechanical Engineering, but he has always enjoyed art. His earliest artistic interests were cartoons since long before he can remember, and illustration since just a little bit before he can remember. Dan has been drawing people with the non-profit drawing group Open Figure Drawing for 20 years, and started using watercolor in 2015. His paintings have been shown in Edgewood Gallery, the Everson Museum, Onondaga Historical Association, and Gandee Gallery.
View Dan’s artwork at shanahan3000.com.
