Textural Watercolor Explorations

Ride the wave, get the drift and settle for more by using granulating watercolors and saturated paper to portray your unique world view!  Move beyond painting literal representations by learning to distill the essence of your preferred subject matter. Create art with a bold, experimental attitude by learning to capitalize on the synergy of quality watercolor paper and sedimentary pigments influenced by gravity.  Employ spatial divisions, value organization, color harmonies and your own unique artist’s marks to produce fresh and powerful statements that will draw viewers across the room.  Discover your personal abstract predilections and inspiration. Learn about the use of symbols for emotional impact.  Risë’s demonstrations will share techniques for recovering light shapes while freely painting medium and dark values with gorgeous textures.  Previous experience with watercolor is necessary.

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Artist Bio

Risë Parberry graduated from the University of Idaho with a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a painting emphasis and received a secondary teaching certificate from Boise State University.  Continued studies with several nationally known artists and teachers, have increased her interpretive and technical vocabulary.  During the twenty-five years that she and her husband Gary operated their grain farm in northern Idaho, Risë taught painting in oil and watercolor through the Washington State Community College Extended Learning program and at the Spokane Parks and Recreation Corbin Art Center as well as for various watercolor societies.  She is a juried signature member of both the Northwest Watercolor Society and the San Diego Watercolor Society, a Juried Member of Watercolor West and has been included in many International Juried Exhibitions including the American Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition.  Her painting, Liquefaction, received second place in the Watercolor West International Juried Exhibition.

Since moving to Pacific Beach 20 years ago, Risë has been active in the San Diego Watercolor Society and is a past president.

Once a traditional realistic watercolorist, Risë currently creates more abstract paintings using granulating and liftable watercolor pigments on 140# or 300#, Rough, Bright White Arches Watercolor Paper.

www.riseparberryart.com  

Non Members Fee: $185.00 Members Fee: $165.00