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    Use design to strengthen and
    enhance your paintings. John will
    help you in all aspects of painting
    a representational cityscape or
    town scene – choosing the
    subject, adding mood and creating
    emotional content, lighting the
    scene for dramatic effect, using
    photo references in a meaningful
    way and most importantly,
    strengthening and enhancing
    representational painting through
    design. This is an invaluable
    opportunity to gain new painting
    insights and lots of one-on-one
    individual help. John is a signature
    member of the AWS, TWSA,
    NWS and many more. (May
    include outings to gather local
    references).  
"Urban Landscape in
Watercolor" - DVD
John Salminen

Realism Through Design
Watercolor - Studio

September 24 - 28, 2012
Portland, OR

Cost $695

Intermediate to Advanced

    JOHN SALMINEN, AWS-DF, NWS. John Salminen
    was born in Minneapolis in 1945. He earned his
    Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree from the
    University of Minnesota in Duluth and lives and works
    in Duluth with his wife, Kathy. He is a signature
    member of many watercolor and art societies,
    including the American Watercolor Society, Allied
    Artists, The Transparent Watercolor Society of
    America and the National Watercolor Society. John
    has been honored with ‘Master’ status in several of
    these societies and is a Dolphin Fellow of the AWS. He
    has been appointed an honorary member of the Jiangsu
    Watercolor Research Institute in China.


    John is a signature member of numerous art societies,
    including the American Watercolor Society, the
    National Watercolor Society, The Watercolor USA
    Honor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society of
    America, Allied Artist and Watercolor West. He has
    been honored with Master Status in TWSA and
    inclusion in the American Watercolor Society’s
    Dolphin Fellowship. He is an honorary member of the
    Jiangsu Watercolor Research Institute in China.
    John has won more than 195 awards in national and
    international exhibitions, including the AWS Gold
    Medal in both 2006 and  2010 and the Silver Star First
    Place Award in the National Watercolor Society
    Exhibition in both 2005 and 2011. He was awarded the
    Silver Medal With Honor by Allied Artists in 2009 and
    the Gold Medal of Honor in 2011 and the Shanghai
    Zhoujiajiao International Biennial Award in 2010.  He
    has been an invited artist in nine international
    watercolor exhibitions in various parts of China and in
    Taiwan. John was invited to China in April to receive
    the Biennial award for the Shanghai Zhujiajiao
    International Biennial and was again invited to China in
    August to represent the United States in the Lushan
    International Watercolor Festival.  His work is included
    in the permanent collections of the Asian Museum of
    Watercolor Art, the Guanhua Watercolor Art Gallery
    and Museum in China and the Armenian Art Museum.

    John’s work has been featured in many national and
    international magazines and books, most recently in the
    French book L’Art de L’Aquarelle Le Livre, Art
    Journey America Landscapes and in the current
    Splash.  He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art
    and in Who’s Who in America.

     John is represented by the American Legacy Gallery in
    Kansas City, the San Marino Gallery in Pasadena and
    the Newmann Saunders Gallery in Wayne, PA.

Class Outline
          In this new offering, John will share his approach to painting the urban scene in watercolor.  John will
    help participants in all aspects of painting a representational cityscape or town scene – choosing the subject,
    adding mood and creating emotional content, lighting the scene for dramatic effect, using photo reference in
    a meaningful way and most importantly, strengthening and enhancing representational painting through
    design. The workshop will include demonstrations, critiques and lots of one-on-one individual help.  Whether
    you’ve never tried painting cityscapes or are an experienced urban painter, this workshop will be an
    invaluable opportunity to gain new painting insights.

    5-Day Class Description
    Day 1:  Discuss and pick photo reference and begin drawing.  John will demonstrate the first steps of the
    painting process we'll be using and will also do a perspective demo.
    Day 2:  Complete drawings and begin painting.  John will do two demos showing the next steps of the process
    and will circulate, helping participants individually.
    Day 3:  John will complete his demonstration painting and will spend the rest of the day helping the artists
    individually.
    Day 4:  Depending on the needs of the group, either all day will be spent in the studio with participants
    working on their paintings and John helping individually OR half of the day will be spent on location
    sketching, and the other half on studio work with one-to-one help.
    Day 5:  In the morning, participants will complete their paintings.  In the afternoon, John will do a full group
    critique of the paintings completed in the workshop.

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