Combining Watercolor & Colored Pencil 

with David Baker
April 11, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Tuition: $75
Materials Fee: N/A

Enhance your watercolor paintings by integrating colored pencil to add depth, texture, and vibrant detail. Demonstrations will guide students through using wax-based colored pencils (not water-soluble) to establish underdrawings, adjust light and dark values, and add rich textures and detail. These are excellent techniques for photorealists, illustrators, beginners, and established artists, and will give your watercolor paintings a dynamic pop. 

Plan to bring: watercolor supplies, including watercolor paper, paints, brushes, and a set of Prismacolor Premier colored pencils.

Location: Ox-Bow House - 137 Center Street, Douglas, MI 49406 

David Baker (he/him) is a visual artist who specializes in poetic landscape painting, much of it done en plein air. His studio pieces are often reinterpretations of paintings done outdoors. His principal media are watercolor, oil, and charcoal. His subjects are magical discoveries made while walking the landscape near Lake Michigan and, in particular, the campus of Ox-Bow. Frequently, these paintings will suggest an ongoing series of pictures. A lifelong artist and teacher, Baker recently retired as Art Professor Emeritus from Southwestern Michigan College. He continues to teach at Ox-Bow, South Haven Center for the Arts, and Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, and he maintains a studio at the Box Factory for the Arts in St. Joseph.

Courtesy of artist.