“Live from Canada on Zoom”

Workshop Content: Discover how to start, build and complete watercolour nature’s patterns and florals as you learn the essential skills of negative painting. In this three day Zoom workshop you will discover how to paint delicate blossoms and foliage. All it takes is a simple shift in the way you see! Linda will demonstrate and lead you step-by-step through the key exercises and basic tactics of working with this unconventional, inspiring approach.

Topics covered in this program include, interpreting your subject matter, negative painting strategies, simplified design, basic colour concepts, and “seeing” for painting. You will learn how to reduce your subject into simplified shapes, create purposeful underpaintings and practice the glazing techniques used for layering negative shapes. On the first day, we develop control by working on dry paper, in readiness for the thrill of building wet into wet layers on the following two days.

Our time together will include video demonstration, hands-on painting time and live discussion about how to apply negative painting concepts to your favourite subjects.

Once you learn the basics you will see and paint the world in an exciting and different way!

Lessons: Linda will be presenting to us Live from Canada on Zoom from 10:00 am-1:00pm each day. Participants may either join other students at Chota where we will project the Zoom to a large screen or participate from home. After Linda drops off at 1:00 pm, students may stay to work on their project in the classroom or go home early. At the end of the day, students are invited to email a photo of their work to Linda for critique. Then, we’ll start the next morning with Q&A before carrying on with her instruction.

On the first day, we develop control by working on dry paper, in readiness for the thrill of building wet into wet layers on the following two days.

Supply List: 2022 Supplies Watercolour-natures patterns
Students will receive photo reference and handouts for the workshop. In addition, Linda will post the daily recorded video demonstrations on a workshop private webpage which students may watch for 30 days.

Biography: Linda Kemp is internationally recognized for her unique, contemporary watercolors and acrylics. Her innovative use of negative painting is the focus of her two best selling books, Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines and Simplifying Design and Color For Artists. Linda is featured in art publications, video and internet forums, with over 1.5 million YouTube views.

She is honoured to be a Life Member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC), the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) and a Life Member of the Society of Canadian Artists (SAC). Her award winning paintings are in collections around the world, including The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, U.K.
In 2008 Linda was awarded the A.J. Casson Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Water Colour, the top award for the CSPWC National Exhibition, Open Waters. In 2005 she was Awarded Woman of the Year for Arts and Culture.

Linda is an enthusiastic teacher who truly cares about the sharing of knowledge with her students, She instructs at symposiums and workshops throughout Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and France and now online. She has served as juror for numerous national and international exhibitions including the 2020 Women in Watercolor International Juried Competition.

For more information about Linda and her art/workshops visit:
Email: studio@lindakemp.com

Instructor Website: www.lindakemp.com

COVID Protocol: Masks requested when social distancing is not possible.