The first day of the workshop the students practiced by painting some simple beach scenes with out a lot of details. This helped to get them familiar with using the watercolor paints and
allowed them to try out some new techniques for painting sky and water. On the second day, we started on this painting. This first photo shows the drawing with masking fluid (to preserve the white of the paper) on the boat, tree, and lighthouse, and I have just finished painting the sky....
About mid-day in today's lesson, the students painted thier base values (light and mid-tones) in the water, beach, and distant trees. The painting is now begining to take shape, as some movement is painted for the water and texture is painted for the sandy beach.
Paint is slowly applied in layers, building up color and value with each application. Here I have added some darker values in the painting, cooled the color temp of the backgound, and warmed the color temp of the foreground.
Tomorow we will paint in some details and finish it.
These are the fantastic artists who attended my workshop in Mississippi. Many of them are members of the Pass Christian Art Association, which hosted and organized the event. Others came from other art organizations on the gulf coast, and some even traveled from other states. 
On the third day of the workshop, my students continued to add deeper values to their paintings and finished with painting in the details. This photo is my finished painting. 
I like to start each workshop with a "warm-up painting" that allows the students to practice the new techniques that I demonstate. In this workshop I demonstrated a a couple of simple beach scenes for the students to paint. This practice enables them to get used to some of the specific brush strokes, color mixes, lifting, and other techniques.
