Leslie Barnum, Artist-Educator

It’s spring and we’ve been painting flowers in my classes.

This iris is a demo from my online Intermediate and Advanced Watercolor class this term. We worked on getting a variety of edges in our paintings: hard, soft and lost edges.

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Registration for my summer online classes will open on May 20th. Check out my website for the classes/dates that I’m offering.

Here’s a snail painting that I did a while back. They are really cute but very pesky if you’re a gardener.

Watercolor on paper

I’ve been having fun teaching a workshop: ‘Mix up your water media with Watercolor and Gouache’ during the last three weeks.

We started with a watercolor underpainting and added gouache on top.

Want to learn basic watercolor techniques while painting flowers this spring? There are still spaces available in my Intro to Watercolor class

Intro to Watercolor
Fridays, April 17 - May 29 (7 sessions)
2-5pm

Practice wet on wet, glazing and brush techniques while painting spring themes.

At Oregon Art Center
2185 SW Park Place
Portland OR

I’m offering a two-day watercolor workshop at Oregon Art Center this summer!

Capturing the Light in Watercolor
Saturday & Sunday, June 27-28
10am-4pm

Learn how to create luminosity in your still-life watercolor paintings. Registration

Want to learn the basics of watercolor or brush up on your skills? Join me for Intro to Watercolor this spring.

Intro to Watercolor
Fridays, April 17-May 29
2-5pm
at Oregon Art Center
2185 SW Park Place
Portland, OR

Register at oregonartcenter.org

This is not helpful but he’s really cute!

Here’s a demo from my gouache class yesterday. I talked about observing colors on an object on the light side and how colors shift on the shadow side.

Gouache on toned paper.