CWA's first guest artist for 2012 will be Linda Sutton, an award-winning "plein aire" painter who finds inspiration where she lives in the California hills adjacent to protected open space. Her transparent watercolor paintings wonderfully show the effects of light. Linda works with the relationships between abstraction and realism to capture the essence of a subject or place and engage the viewer's imagination. She is a member of the Society of Animal Artists and has a master signature membership in the California Watercolor Association; signature memberships include the National Watercolor Society, Artists for Conservation Foundation, and Watercolor West.

Linda's workshop will focus on the manipulation of color, character, technique, texture, content and concepts to establish various illusions on a flat surface, all the while working transparently. She will begin with a presentation on the effects of visual relationships when painting with transparent color, then present intriguing exercises intended to help students work with transparent color more freely to develop their own approaches. Students will work with their own source material (objects and/or photographs) with group and individual guidance from Linda on how to work with them.
CWA members $250 and non-CWA $305.

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Represented by Epperson Gallery in Crockett, California, Linda's paintings, particularly her wildlife subjects, have been shown in many exhibitions across the country and included in a number of publications.

For more information, visit Linda's website at www.ldsutton.com and at www.NatureArtists.com.

Non Members Fee: $305.00 Members Fee: $250.00