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WATERCOLORS

Portrait of artist Sue Archer

Instructor - Sue Archer - AWS, NWS, TWSA, FWS

Sue is a studio and plein air artist, national workshop instructor and national juror and judge for watercolor exhibitions. She showed her work in Art Festivals in Florida from 1985 -2014 and still shows her work in national watercolor exhibitions.  Since Sue began exhibiting her work in 1985, she has won over 200 state and national awards, has received a Florida State Individual Artist Fellowship grant for painting, and has a DVD “Commanding Color”.​

For 25 years Sue had painted large still lifes showing strong light and with textural interest. Now she is doing abstracted-textural work, close-up or mid-distant landscapes, some figurative works, and drawings in-studio and plein air. Painting the effect of light on her subjects and creating texture are still a passion of hers no matter what the genre.

WATERCOLORS - MASTERING WATERCOLOR

Coffee with friends watercolor painting by Sue Archer
_Cypress and Pond Lilies 1920.jpg
S. Archer Going Home.jpeg
S. Archer Bunny's Bunny.jpeg

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Mastering Watercolor - For Intermediate to Advanced Artists
No beginners, please. Approval required—show your work to Peggy and/or Sue before registering.

Mastering watercolor requires a combination of color knowledge, technical skill, and, as with any medium, strong design and composition. In this intensive workshop, we’ll explore a variety of concepts. How much you apply and practice those concepts, will be up to you as an artist. A separate workshop focused more deeply on design and composition will be offered in March.

 

Please Note: You must work from your own original reference materials.
The following are not allowed:

  • AI-generated images

  • Internet photos or paintings

  • Photos from free websites

  • Purchased photos, even with permission from the photographer

 

Workshop Schedule Overview - This is a progressive series.

If you are only attending 2 days, they must be Days 1 and 2.

 

Day 1 – Saturday, January 24, 2026

  • Color Concepts

  • Temperature

  • Pigment Qualities

  • Pigment Values

  • How to Take Better Reference Photos

  • Essential Watercolor Techniques

 

Day 2 – Sunday, January 25, 2026

  • Different Approaches to Watercolor

  • Understanding and Applying Values

 

Day 3 – Saturday, January 31, 2026

Green Day

  • Mixing Greens

  • Color Intensity: Neutralizing Colors - How and Why

  • Drawing from Your Own Photo: Eliminate, Move, Embellish Shapes, Locate Tangents

  • Planning Your Painting: Use Your Own Photos or Still Life

  • Limited Palette - How and Why

 

Day 4 – Sunday, February 1, 2026

  • Dominance

  • Temperature

  • Importance of Positive/Negative Shapes

  • Importance of Interesting Shapes

  • Continue Planning Your Paintings Using Your Photos or Still Life

  • Harmony and Limited Palette

Part 1 - January 24 & 25, 2026
9:00am - 4:00 pm - $375

Part 2 - January 31 & February 1, 2026
9:00am - 4:00 pm - $375

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