Instructor: Judith Simonian
Monday - Friday
August 10 - 14
9am - 12pm
Open Studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm
5 sessions

This five day workshop enables students of all levels who love to paint, an opportunity to become familiar with the three most popular water media: watercolor, gouache and acrylics.

Through a step by step approach consisting of demonstrations, guided exercises and painting assignments participants will become familiar with the unique characteristics, advantages and limitations of each medium so they can make informed choices between them. With ACRYLIC, learn impasto techniques, blending versis layering colors with glazing, use of mediums and tools to create texture. WATERCOLOR is the transparent medium. learn techniques for controlling hard and soft edges, painting wet-into-wet, washes and dry brush. GOUACHE is know for its rich, flat, opaque, non reflective color. It lends itself to tiling in addition to blending on the palette.

Participants will learn which surfaces and brushes are best for each medium, the relative permanence of each, when and how they might be combined for special effects and their suitability for use in different situations.

Judith Simonian is a painter born in Los Angeles, California, who lives and works in New York City. She has exhibited widely in galleries and museums throughout the United States and internationally. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibit at JJ Murphy Gallery, New York, and work currently on view in the group exhibition Northeast Corridor at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London Simonian’s awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Colene Brown Art Prize, and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grants. Her residency fellowships include Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Dora Maar House (Ménerbes, France), BAO Cassis (France), and Fundación Valparaíso (Spain).

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