Demonstration & Discussion Series 2020
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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
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
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
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
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
Photo by Jonathan Taylor.
