GUILD OF ARTISTS
Wild Over Watercolor
Education
Our mission is to provide educational opportunities for WOW! members through demonstrations and workshops, where they can develop their self-expression, art skills, and professional lives as artists.
WOW! Demos
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Demonstrations are offered throughout the year during selected GPSs (Group Painting Sessions). They provide opportunities for our artists to learn from other artists in our group.
Presenters may illustrate different techniques, share areas of expertise or discoveries, different skills or strategies, or assist in learning steps in writing an artist's statement, framing art, showing their art, or requesting some aspect of art to be explored.
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Members learn new ways of handling our medium or explore a themed subject (e.g., light on water, sunrises / sunsets, spring foliage, etc.). We grow to be more knowledgeable about painting watercolor. Some past Demos have focused on:
Various Art Techniques
Perspective in Landscape
How To Do Scratch Art
Framing and Matting Your Art
Present, show, and promote your art​
2026 DEMOS​
To Be Scheduled
WOW! Workshops
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WOW! is committed to providing workshops to its members each year. The focus, as requested by its members, is to explore an artistic theme or technique(s). The content is specific and most likely project based with emphasis on elements of composition, specific techniques, color and value and/or textures. Some examples are: painting mountains in a winter sunset with focus on perspective, washes, working with snow, color and value, shadows and light, focal point (creating a 'sweet spot'), wet-in-wet techniques, perspective/colors in farmhouse landscape.
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Members have priority for WOW! Workshops, and space is limited.
WOW! workshops are led by quality instructors with much experience in their style and subjects.
Previous Workshop Watercolor Instructors include:
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Peter X O'brien - A Landscape:
Spring/Summer Farmhouse
Yong Hong Zhong - Color, Value,
Temperature, Light, Shadow
Harold Walkup - Strong
Composition with Strong Color
Angie Granger -
Unique Texturing with Webbing
Creating Unique Under Painting
Margaret Terral
Gelli Printing and Painting
2026 WOW! Workshop​s
SPRING 2026 -- March 6 & March 27
Landscapes of OREGON & the NORTHWEST
with Dale Kurtz
