Cost is $70 for members, $95 for nonmembers.
To register please send an email to lbgriffi@att.net. The website is being setup for you to pay online – https://brevardwatercolorsociety.org/events/category/workshops/ or mail a check to
Laurie Griffin
4825 Winchester Drive
Titusville, FL 32780.
Please register as soon as possible so we can provide the number of participants to Vlad by July 1st and confirm our event. The picture we will be painting, is below. Vlad is currently traveling and painting in Croatia and will pick a scene from his current trip for us. If you have questions please contact Laurie Griffin, lbgriffi@att.net.
About Vlad:
Vlad Yeliseyev is a Russian émigré came to the United States in the 1980s equipped with a classical art education from Moscow School of Art and a Master’s Degree in architecture from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. Now a renowned watercolor and plein air artist, his paintings are in personal and commercial collections worldwide. Vladislav currently works from his studio in Sarasota, Florida, where he spends most of the day painting. “I am a constant student of my craft,” he admits. His work is often praised for his unique ability to reflect light in his paintings. Critics noted his bold brushwork, expert loose color passages, and crisp well edited calligraphy in his paintings. To achieve this effect, Vladislav (Vlad) prefers to use rough watercolor paper and combinations of brush techniques. “The challenge with watercolor,” Vlad explains, “is to achieve richness in color and not to lose the transparency.” With painstaking use of limited brushwork in his art, Vlad creates paintings which give a sense of depicted objects rather than their details, while maintaining the transparent colors unique to watercolor. “I use a palette of warm colors a lot, like ochre and burnt umber,” says Vlad. “I now just use 15 colors in my palette.” Look for his favorite colors – burnt sienna, cobalt turquoise, gold ochre – in the majority of his artwork. “There should be something not said in a painting, something that gives the luxury of interpretation to the viewer. And there lies the poetry”, he says “Poetry on the page is minimalistic in the number of words it uses. The challenge for me as an artist is how to say a lot with minimal brushstrokes”. Vladislav has won numerous awards and is an exhibiting member of many art societies nationwide, and a signature member of American Impressionist Society, National Watercolor Society, and Florida Watercolor Society.
In my paintings I would like to express the beauty of landscapes through variation of natural light conditions and individual approaches to interpretation of color in real life. I would like not to merely pick up the colors from the natural environment but to reinvent them right on my canvas. My goal is to express the beauty of various landscapes and cityscapes by showing architectural elements, street life and their playful integration with the light conditions.
The picture we will be painting:
https://www.yeliseyevfineart.com/
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