My return visit to the Southwest Washington Watercolor Society in Vancouver is set for October.  On the 5th I’ll be judging their Annual Fall Art Show to be held at Vancouver Mall.  Then on Tuesday, October6th – Thursday, October 8th I’ll be conducting a workshop focussing on putting children into paintings.   On the evening of the 6th, I’ll also do a brief talk about the show and the winning paintings.

See their website and newsletter for further information:  http://www.swwswatercolor.org/newsletter/0909_SWWS_Newsletter_Web.pdf

I’m looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and to meeting new friends.

This pic is from my 2007 Spring workshop in Vancouver.

Watercolor Artists of Sonoma County (www.wascoart.org) was my host in a week long workshop in March, 2009.  For the first day I did a “follow along” portrait class.  There was a large enthusiastic group working that day.  The rest of the week it was “paint your own portrait”.  The individuality expressed was wonderful to see, from expressionism, to realism, to whimsy.  I enjoyed meeting and working with the artists and look forward to another visit to the beautiful Sonoma hills.

WASCO Class

This lovely painting was done in this same class.

From the week in Sonoma here are Mary and I with our paintings