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Kathy Braud attended a Lian Quam Zhen workshop

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June 20th, 2015 - 01:00 AM

Kathy Braud attended a Lian Quam Zhen workshop

It has been a great week! Our Central Minnesota Watercolorists club partnered with the Paramount Arts Center in St. Cloud, MN to bring the artist Lian Quam Zhen to give a 4 day watercolor workshop.
He was great! Lian uses a special camera that can bring the image much closer or move out so the whole painting shows..... and the images of what he is demonstrating is shown to us on a big television screen.
We progressed in stages and worked on blue heron landscapes, koi fish underwater scenes and peony floral arrangements.

We all knew ahead of time that Lian talks with his paint brush, so we were able to view the pile of paintings gathered of questions or problems - be answered successfully with color, value, pattern, light or dark. We also discovered our problems can be seen from a distance and it is good to contemplate the painting for awhile, then jump in and do it!.

Lian also had us use just 3 colors of paint and we mixed all our colors from them. Some were made as pure liquid colors in little cups to pour into our paintings and other places needed a thicker paste of color and mixing, and we needed to keep the pure ones separate. The color Black was encouraged also... by mixing!

Since we are a far flung group, we had fun in fellowship, had a large group dinner out, and found other opportunities to visit in small groups during lunch and get to know each other better.

I highly encourage artists to take art workshops. Regional artists will cost less then nationally known ones who teach more frequently, but they all teach you important lessons that help you jump start to a higher level of expertise. Unique time saving processes and thoughts about art are freely shared / discussed. Your energy thrown into the mix will stir you to improve your current painting pathway and excitement to paint.

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