Watercolor Basics with with Michelle Dolan (3 sessions-Thursdays)
Day 1
-Materials Exploration (Brushes, Paper, Pencils, Mixed Media)
-Elements of Design (Line, Shape, Color, Texture, Value, Form, Space)
-Principles of Layout (Grid, Rule of Thirds-iPhone image edit grid; Fibonacci numbers, Golden Spirals, Ratios of Rectangles)
Day 2
-Still Life, bring a piece of fruit or flower (Lighting; Composition; Background)
Day 3
Landscape, bring a photo (Sky; Foreground;Background; Atmosphere)
KAMPAI! A Sake Celebration in Honor of DAC's 5th Anniversary
Downtown Art Center is celebrating five amazing years fostering creativity and community!
KAMPAI! A delightful evening of sake, tasty bites, artwork from Hawaiʻi Watercolor Society, and live jazz music by Michael Chung.
The night’s sake selections have been carefully chosen to offer a rich tasting experience. Enhance your evening by purchasing a unique, handmade sake cup crafted by a talented local artisan, perfect for savoring your favorite sake at home.
Beginning Watercolor Workshop with Esther Nowell (6 classes on Thurs.)
Ages: Adults 18+ (or 16+ accompanied by a parent or guardian)
Limit 12 students
Topics for this popular beginning watercolor class with 104-year-old artist Esther Nowell may include: light to dark washes; shading and depth; drawing and painting faces; drawing and painting trees; painting clouds and sunsets, and more. Lessons of the day are flexible, so whether this is your first class with Esther or your 15th, you will always learn something new and have fun doing it!
About the instructor:
Born on May 31, 1920, Esther Nowell has made countless contributions to Hawaiʻi’s arts communities over the course of her long and creative life. She has been an illustrator for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, an arts educator, role model, and inspiration for many generations of local artists, a member of Hawaiʻi Potter’s Guild, a children’s storybook illustrator, and an innovative artist and craftsperson, best known for her unique techniques of working with clay, and for her watercolor art.
Watercolor Painting Class with Dwayne Adams: Learning from the Renaissance (3 Sundays: June 2,9,16)
This 3-session class (Sundays for three weeks) will look at what we can learn about composition, color, and technique from the Renaissance masters. From that we will see how to create watercolor paintings that feature depth, drama, and mystery, and create a strong sense of place.
Learning Curves: Watercolor Artwork Created by DAC Art Students
This exhibition showcases the work of DAC art students in watercolor classes under the direction of teaching artist Dwayne Adams.
Watercolor Painting Class with Dwayne Adams: 6 Sessions - Begins April 23
Instructor: Dwayne Adams
6 sessions: Sundays April 23 and 30; May 7, 14, 21, 28 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
DAC teaching artist Dwayne Adams will be leading a 6-week long course on watercolor painting beginning April 23. The classes cover everything from basics like how to tape paper down to subjects such as how to paint in washes, creatively blend colors, design painting layouts, and how to handle values. Beginning paint materials are available for purchase for a nominal amount for those with no experience.
Hawaii Watercolor Society Little Picture Show 2022
No juror, exhibit for water media paintings not to exceed (including frame) 9"x12" up to 20 prints (5x7 or 8x10) 50 cards or packages of cards.
Important Dates:
Entry and payment by November 27, 2022l
Artwork Drop-off: Thursday, 12/15/22 between 10 and 11 am, or make arrangements with HWS ahead of time
Pick-up artwork: Friday 12/30/22 from 3 - 5 pm, or make arrangements with HWS ahead of time
Hawaii Watercolor Society Open Show 2022
Art Exhibition of selected (juried) entries of watermedia submissions
Juror Wes Waugh
Wes Waugh is a Boone, North Carolina, artist best known for bold watercolor landscapes. He began painting early in life, has held over fifteen exhibitions, and has served as a workshop instructor, product consultant, presenter, and juror for a number of art-related businesses and organizations. He is active as a wilderness conservationist as the Executive Director of the nonprofit “A Clean Wilson Creek,” dedicated to the protection of this western North Carolina National Wild and Scenic River.
Kānehūnāmoku: The hidden land of Kāne Exhibit by Dawn Yoshimura
Photography by Jan Becket and watercolors by Dawn Yoshimura
Exhibit honoring the landscape from Malaea to Kaʻena sponsored by Koa Ike Foundation committed to preserving the wahipana of Waianae ʻohana.
For many years, Dawn Yoshimura and Jan Becket have visited a small section of the Waiʻanae coast from Kepuhi Point to Kaʻena Point. This exhibit contains their reflections of the ahupuaʻa of Keaʻau, ʻŌhikilolo, Mākua, Keawaʻula and Kaʻena—an area that is more broadly referred to by some Waiʻanae families as Kānehūnāmoku, the hidden land of Kāne. In learning from those families, talking to other Waiʻanae residents and visiting that area, Dawn and Jan have responded to this unique place in artworks presented in this exhibition.
As the rest of the island slowly becomes urbanized, this exhibit advocates for the need to protect all of Kānehūnāmoku.
Join Zoom discussion May 25, 9:00-10:00am