Cindy Briggs talking about watercolor paper pad while Theresa Goesling paints at the DANIEL SMITH Demo

Cindy Briggs talking about watercolor paper pad while Theresa Goesling paints at the DANIEL SMITH Demo

The FREE demo last Saturday, Watercolor: Make Everyday a Painting at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH had a full house to watch and learn from both Theresa Goesling and Cindy Briggs.  Their demo was also a full house of ideas to take away! 

 
It was fun watching them do tag team paintings at the same time, one working on her painting, while the other was talking about another technique to try.  As they pointed out, while they both have rather different watercolor painting styles, and live in two different states (Washington – Theresa and Oregon – Cindy) but when they get together for their Mediterranean workshops and demos like this, their styles meld well and they play off one another. 
 
Cindy Briggs and Theresa Goesling the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store for their demo

Cindy Briggs and Theresa Goesling the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store for their demo

They talked about and demonstrated different art materials: watercolor pencils , watercolor paper pads , watercolor paints (particularly the DANIEL SMITH Luminescent watercolors ) different kinds of brushes (particularly the cats’ tongue and Black Gold Round Watercolor Brush #12 ) making marbleized paper using acrylic paint and carrageenan, collage and more!  It was a jam packed continuous two and a half hour demo full of all sorts of art supply information and “how to” do watercolor painting and general art making.

 
Cindy focused at one point, on showing us how to combine Contour Line Drawings and Watercolor Painting to produce some very interesting art, she often works this way herself.  Later she challenged everyone in at the demo to try painting in Watercolor without sketching it in first.  Unfortunately I had to leave about the point that Theresa finishing up showing us how she makes her own marbleized paper, and show us how she combines collage with painting. 
 
I left the demo with lots of ideas and information swirling around in my head like the marbleized paper that Theresa was making!
Saturday, February 28th from 11 am to 1:30 pm
WATERCOLOR: Make Everyday a Painting
Theresa Goesling & Cindy Briggs
theresagoesling.com
cindybriggs.com 
Thank you Theresa and  Cindy!
 
 
Every Day,  Express Yourself with Art ….
 
~Deborah Burns
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