Water Color Painting Workshop

With renowned Artist Lee Cohen

Novemeber 12 , 2009

J Wayne Stark Galleries is hosting a water color painting workshop with artist Lee Cohen. This free workshop is being held on Thursday, November 12 at 6.30 PM in Evans library Annex Sixth floor, 3.603. The workshop is open to everyone, beginners to professionals.

Lee Cohen will help the participants in exploring the techniques of water color paintings. A varied still life will be set up from which each participant has to choose whatever aspect they find intriguing and work on it.. Lee Cohen believes in learning by doing.  In the process participants will learn about design and composition; using washes and glazes (which involves learning about colors) and wet into wet painting vs. dry brush. Materials will be provided by the University Art Galleries.  The workshop aims at freeing the artist within through the medium of watercolor.

 Lee Cohen is a graduate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and was a participating student at the Barnes Art Foundation in Merion PA. Since the fall of 2004 she has been studying with the Arthur Turner at Glassell in Houston. Lee Cohen’s works have been exhibited in more than 250-juried shows throughout the country, Canada and Mexico. She has been working since 1990 on landscapes and natural elements. Her work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections, and as a part of the permanent collections of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library, George Bush Presidential Library, Arts Council of Brazos Valley of Texas, Stark Gallery, Texas A & M University Etc…. Class size is limited and reservations are required. For more information or to register contact Beverly Wagner at beverly@uart.tamu.edu or call 979.845.8501.

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