Sketching Clouds with Watercolors

Saturday December 6, 2025 9-10:30amAKT

Reset your brain from holiday chaos by putting your head in the clouds with me for 90 minutes!I'll present a few techniques for painting clouds with watercolor. Heck yeah!Work with me as I demonstrate and explain ways to create different types of clouds: billowing, wispy, fair-weather, etc.

Please leave your full name and email address. I will confirm your registration via email. A Zoom link will be sent to all participants several days before the event.

Important: 1) to avoid my emails landing in your SPAM folder, add my email address to your contacts; and 2) your email address will not shared with any organization or individual.

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I'll be using:
- my field journal and loose sheets of watercolor paper
- a size 16 round squirrel hair brush (Silver Black Velvet)
- a size 10 or 12 round 100% synthetic brush (Escoda)
- pigments in a variety of blues, cad orange, payne's gray, and sepia
- hand towel, paper towel and two water binsBring to the event the tools you are comfortable with.Suggestion: put away the tiny brushes and lean into the larger ones in your collection.

This event will be recorded but engaging live offers the most benefit. 😊

About the series

Taking in smaller pieces of information rather than large, complex ideas makes it easier to understand and remember what's being shared.This pop-up series of demos aims to do just that by focusing on skills generally applicable across all drawing and painting disciplines.They will pop-up when I can fit one into my schedule.Open to any skill level, each demo will always be free, have unlimited seating, and hopes to help you discover a missing piece in your practice.Little bites at a time.

We come to explore tools of artistic expression and how to use them;we come also to further explore and experience the pleasures of observing the natural world. Invariably, we leave satisfied.
~ Marty

Questions?
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About the instructor

My field sketching practice informs everything I do as an Artist, Instructor, and Writer.Art and nature have been part of my life in varying ways since childhood. After a few years flipping between art and biology as an undergrad, I found my way to Natural Science Illustration and never looked back.Teaching others to connect with the natural world through direct observation and journaling brings me as much joy as my personal art practice does.With a focus on "process" rather than always completing finished works, I am teaching skills that apply to anything you want to sketch.You know the old adage..."Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"? That's what I aim to do.

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