FIA511 — Watercolor:Landscape&Memory
LCCC and David Watkins Price have developed an exciting class for beginner artists! Through an exchange between the landscape and the individual student via drawing and painting, this course will broaden participants' awareness of the techniques of watercolor, its history, and its connection to the landscape of this part of northeastern Pennsylvania. Students will be guided through the process of creating a piece of watercolor based on experiences with their surroundings. The first class will begin with a brief introduction to the art of landscape painting through a discussion/presentation of Swiss artist Karl Bodmer who visited Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) in 1832. During the course, students will be asked to draw on subject matter from the town of Jim Thorpe and its surrounding area using such tools as photographs taken by students. Sketches will be reused to construct an original piece of 18-by-24 work. The production will be developed over the course as students learn application of washes, dry-brush techniques, rendering of details, and use of color to break the picture plane. The course will culminate in an exhibit of student work in Three Mountains Gallery, 29 Race St., Jim Thorpe. This project was supported by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania's General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in the region by Monroe County Arts Council. Artist supplies must be purchased by each student.