CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Students will explore the painting medium of their choice: watercolor or oil or both In an outdoor setting. The instructor will give demonstrations in both mediums.

Formal paintings techniques such as color, value – light and dark, line and space will be discussed as they apply to landscape painting (emphasis on composition)

Weather permitting most of the work in the class will be done outdoors working directly from nature. Students will be critiqued by the instructor in a group setting at the end of each painting session. A mid end semester critique will be conducted to review work.

Attendance is important as work is completed during studio class sessions.

BIO:
William Stewart is a longtime Taos NM painter and one of the original art educators at UNM, Taos. Mr. Stewart recently had a residency at the Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY. and had an exhibit of work at the center of work started during an Emily Harvey Foundation residency in Venice, Italy.
The Watermill Foundation has just purchased two triptychs in monoprint and watercolor mediums and one large monoprint for their collection Mr Stewart works in oil, watercolor, and printmaking mediums.