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Demonstration & Discussion Series 2020
& 
​Videos

Demonstration and Discussion Series 

 
"Thank you for the opportunity to explore learning amazing watercolor techniques! It was not only informative, but it also helped me remember my connection to emotions & color metaphorically. Since the pandemic, I have been unable to practice my chakra meditation sessions on Fridays at my studio. Seeing your comprehensive color wheel diagram, I became conscious of how I have dropped the ball on my own practice using color and how I need to "charge" back into color. I am thankful for your enlightenment.
 Your genuine dedication to teaching students-while demonstrating, shows a wonderful sense of humanity, love for teaching and awe of the essence of color which shines through."
 
Love and light,
Taheerah
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In the order of paintings seen above, please view:

Portraits of Inspirational People

Spontaneous Landscapes

Luminous & Lustrous Still Life Paintings

​Emotional Color Abstracts

​

This year, with social distancing becoming the new normal, I

have decided to offer a series of watercolor demonstrations


 on Zoom. The recorded demonstrations will also be

available.  However, if you join Zoom LIVE,then you will have

the opportunity for Q & A during our time together.




My First Demonstration and Discussion

Series started August 19. 




I am customizing this first series of 4 for beginners and advanced-beginners,
though of course all levels are 
always welcome.


Dates:

August 19, 2020 Emotional Color Abstract

October 14, 2020 Spontaneous Landscape

December 2, 2020 The Luminous & Lustrous Still Life

January 13, 2021 Portrait of an Inspirational Person


Time:

10:00 am to 11:30 am


 The second series will start in February and is for all

levels to enjoy, and for intermediate painters to more
​
fully understand how to render techniques on their own.




 Register 


$35.00 for one workshop at a time
​
$90.00 for 3 workshops in a row
​



Please go to the shop on this website and click under

events. You will be able to pay with a credit card.  

If you choose not to use your credit card, please use

Venmo instead of Paypal. Venmo will ​take my phone

number, ​510 672 2858,

Or,

write a check made out to:

Julie Cohn

930 Dwight Way, Suite 10B

Berkeley, CA 94710


​Thank you!


Videos
​
​Abstract Watercolor Painting "Emotional Color"



This video is for beginning - advanced watercolor painters and for those

working with water soluble or fluid paint media. In a flowing conversation

with watercolor, I listen and respond. I don't think too much. I'm tapping into

the subconscious, heart leading mind into action. I start the video talking

about how to use color and plan composition while painting what I call

"Emotional Color Paintings." I give you a few exercises: scumbling, charging in

color, and making blooms. I then talk about and create a luminous, non-

objective painting with abstract forms that evoke nature. When the painting

is complete, I cap the experience with a title, bringing it to a close. I call this

painting " Golden Release." This Emotional Color painting has been a great

release for me.


I invite you as the viewer to pose your own questions and find some answers,

following shifts toward contentment as you paint.



Recommendations for Emotional Color Painting:

Turn phones off and be sure cats and dogs are relaxed and/or sleeping. Use

arches 140 cold press paper and tube paints. Make a border with 3m masking

tape. Start on wet or dry paper. I typically start wet on dry paper with a thin

color and add thicker color into it. Put a color in one one area and put more

of the color again in the same area, double coating to keep wet. Look at

paper frequently to see how wet it is. Overall work with thinner mixtures in

glossy water, thicker, drier mixtures into the drying surface. To lift lines and

areas of color, use a damp, knife-like edge of a synthetic flat 3/4 inch

watercolor brush.



Half way through painting ask yourself:

Did I stick to one color scheme?

Did I use a horizontal/vertical axial or horizontal axial with a v or z composition ?

Did I use the techniques I practiced?


​Enjoy, remembering to give yourself positive feedback! -Julie  
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Disappear Fear, Find Joy Video (Scroll Down)

 Video Director and Producer: Elise Cheval


   You want to express your fear, doubt, anger, frustration,

​bitterness, and every other kind of emotion that comes

to you, and you want a vehicle for doing this. In “Disappear

Fear,Find Joy”, I give you the support and encouragement to

move through these difficult emotions in a constructive,

   healthy way. As I listened to my emotions while healing

from breast cancer, I deliberately chose a small book in

which I could vent with marks, colors and shapes that

reflected my emotional state. No one saw what I was doing

most of the time, and I needed to keep it private. The

paintings are not about good art or bad art. They are about

freeing from the notion that one has to be an artist painting

pretty pictures. The paintings you make can be with any

medium and they are for YOU alone. As you do this for

yourself, you will learn more about yourself and your

intuition. The more you trust your intuition and follow it

through your actions, the happier you will be, I guarantee! 

​ To your visual journey and healing,  Julie



    
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