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Check out how I use Drawing Gum as a resist as I work on a misty islands landscape

In this first of a series of videos on my favourite tools and materials I show you how I use cheap paint rollers to get paint down quickly for creating loose underpaintings and finding new ways into "stuck" paintings....

Join me for a workshop in Cortona Italy with Toscana Americana toscanaamericana.com/alisonwattenroll.html I talk about how we will be using different papers and drawing and painting materials to create lively, quick travel sketches and beautiful concertina sketch books.

I demonstrate how I simplify an active surface created by layering drawings, paint and collage, to resolve towards a more cohesive composition.

Very excited to be teaching a sketching and painting workshop in Tuscany this fall, in the beautiful city of Cortona. In this video I'll show you how to make the kind of concertina sketchbooks we'll we working in. More info on workshop Toscana Americana toscanaamericana.com/alisonwattenroll.html You can download a PDF on making a concertina book on my website page: www.alisonwatt.ca/self-directed

In this Interview, Alison is interviewed by the Toronto artist and writer, Kelley Aitken. Here's what they talked about: 6:45 botanical paintings 15:11 writing and illustrating Alison’s book The Last Island 20:35 how Alison became a painting teacher 22:00 journalling practice/drawing nature 32:02 teaching travel journalling in France 35:52 transition to acrylic and mixed media from watercolour/...

In this fragment of a chat on Abstracting Botanicals from my recent Serious Fun Course, I talk about creating connection in areas we have painted out, negative painting, visual language, colour and value. Students tell me that these chats, which allow feedback and a deeper discussion of each week's material make Serious Fun an exceptional learning experience.

Let me introduce myself. I am a Canadian West Coast painter, with deep roots in painting place. This video will be part of a retrospective show with 7 other west coast naturalist/biologist artists, at the Centre for the Salish Sea, Sidney, British Columbia (opening Feb. 22.)

I talk about metallics, iridescents, and pearlescent media

how to quickly prepare a piece of paper for mixed media with gesso on both sides

I talk about what I'm packing for my September workshops in France.

Colours are like people you have to spend time with them to get to know them. In this video, I show you a few of my tools and references on colour. Then I take you on a palette hunt and create a new studio palette from the colours of one of my Kilim carpets.

Images from members of Artwork Artplay worldwide, as an exchange of postcards celebrating spring (and fall) and a sense of place.

Abstracting Landscape Part 2

drawing from the outside in

Artists at Large interview with Margret Petrie

A Sense of Place new online course this spring!

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creating surface: the abstract process

Mixed Media: Abstracting landscape

Artists at Large- Interview with Doria Moodie

abstracting landscape

negative painting trees

Post Card Pen Pals

Serious Fun Online Course about to start

Jumping in, Keeping Going with Layering

Creating Surface 3 Collage

Artists at Large-Interview with Kelley Aitken

Glazing to create luminous water paintings