Watercolor Studio with Ripley Whiteside | Teen

Concept and Experience

This introductory workshop demystifies the medium of watercolor. With Ripley as their guide, students learn preparatory drawing strategies, color mixing, and brush handling, as well as wet-on-wet, dry brush, and transparent glazing techniques. The workshop emphasizes watercolor's dynamic range as both an effective tool for painting from observation and studio-based experimental techniques. In a comfortable and relaxed setting that centers the pleasure of painting, students gain experience with this medium that is too often saddled with a reputation for being difficult to control. No prior painting experience required.

Instructor

Ripley Whiteside grew up in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. He earned his BFA from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and MFA from State University of New York-Buffalo. His studio practice explores the mysteries of ecological movement. Our present and future are being shaped by the swiftly changing climate and he is haunted by the notion that we cannot comprehend the extent of our impact. Ripley has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the US and Canada, and has been an artist-in-residence at Willapa Bay, The Peanut Factory, I-Park, and Vermont Studio Center. He teaches at Austin Peay State University and Belmont University in Nashville, TN.