9:30am – 4:30pm (1 hour lunch)
Hester House, 6100 Hall Rd, Melbourne, FL
$275 BWS Members, $325 Non-Members
$50 deposit required to hold your spot.
Space is limited.
Join Donna Morrison sharing and demonstrating the processes she uses to create striking paintings based on the wonder of the natural world.
Donna will discuss each step from starting with a high-quality digital capture, evaluating composition, making choices for backgrounds, choosing color palettes, creating an accurate and detailed drawing, using masking or no masking, how to create more drama, and clues for finishing strong. Hands-on help and instructor demonstrations will be key to your understanding and learning techniques. She will talk about papers she likes to use and why as well as brushes, paints and other tools of the trade.
Material List will be provided after you register.
Donna will furnish two images, one for each day. In the final afternoon we will work on unfinished paintings, finalizing the steps needed to learn throughout the entire painting! We will also use the afternoon for one-on-one time to critique individual processes, answer questions, and celebrate our cleverness at all we accomplished throughout the workshop.
Please feel free to bring finished or in-process paintings for critiquing.
The class will be relaxed with no expectations of painting masterpieces. The goal will be for all to learn and have fun!
About the Artist
Donna Morrison is widely recognized for her realistic representations which include such subject matter as water birds, landscapes, botanicals, all matter of critters, and human portrayals. She enjoys painting with various mediums on a variety of surfaces and specializes in watercolor. She teaches workshops and classes and has been recognized in Watercolor Artists Magazine as a “Top 10 Watercolor Artist to Watch”. She holds signature statuses in the National Watercolor Society, Southern Watercolor Society and the Florida Watercolor Society and has her mastership in the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society.
She was born and raised in Bradenton, Florida where she learned to love the land through her family’s activities with agriculture and coastal living. She attended Furman University in Greenville, SC earning a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with an interest in advertising design in 1986. Post graduation she moved to Tampa, FL where she worked as a chamber of commerce communications manager and as a graphic designer. She created and ran Bayou Graphics, Inc which focused mainly on print design. In 2001 she sold the company and moved into fine art exclusively.
Donna has shown her work and earned numerous awards throughout the state of Florida as well as the country at large. She is an active member of many local and state art organizations and has held board positions with the Florida Watercolor Society, Tampa Regional Artists, Art Center Manatee and Las Damas de Arte. She has a solo gallery in shared space with Smith Brothers Framing in Tampa, Florida. Most of her work can be viewed online at donnamorrison.net.
