234-Watercolor Landscape Step-By-Step
Adult Workshop | This class has been canceled
Students are led through a step-by-step process of creating a painting each week. The instructor stresses the thinking behind what is being done and the reasons for doing things in a proper sequence. Students concentrate on seeing and controlling values, arriving at a simple formula to start a painting and proceeding in a logical process to finish a work. All students focus on the same subject and solve the same problems, with room for freedom of style in color choice.
- Decent quality watercolor paper: 140 lb. Either D'Arches or Kilamanjaro
- Watercolor palette: John Pike style is recommended (with wells and cover; just be sure the one you choose has wells and a mixing area)
- Decent quality watercolor brushes: Robert Simmons- White Sable (nylon): All round: 1 large (12 or 14); 1 medium (8 or 10); 1 small (4 or 6)
- Container for water (plastic containers from the deli are good)
- A backing for your watercolor paper, slightly larger than the paper size (ie. masonite, drawing board, gatorboard, homosote, formica) and
- Masking tape (1")
- Paper towels
- Watercolor Paints:
- Raw Umber Violet (Brand: American Journey from "Cheap Joes")
- Skips Green (Brand: American Journey from "Cheap Joes")
- Horizon Blue (Brand: Holbein)
- Any brand:
- French ultramarine
- Indigo
- Raw umber
- Cadmium red
- Lemon yellow
- Alizarin crimson
- Yellow ochre
Steve Zazenski
A native of Bayonne, NJ, has been a full-time artist since 1978. He is known for his watercolor landscapes of New England, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. He has won numerous awards for his paintings from the New Jersey Watercolor Society, the Garden State Watercolor Society, the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, Rockport Art Association and local shows in the metro area.
His work is included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. His work has been exhibited in the Bergen Museum, the Montclair Museum, Nabisco World Headquarters, Sardis Restaurant and the Salmagundi Club.
His series of lithographs depicting nostalgic scenes of his native Bayonne are very popular and have been used on the TV shows, Growing Pains and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.