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    Methods, materials and
    themes change, but a
    consistently good
    composition and design
    hold the viewer's eye.


    Karen Rosasco will teach you eight
    different innovative ways to begin an
    abstract painting the first two days of
    this exciting experimental workshop.
    Spend the next three days
    concentrating on finishing the
    paintings abstractly or semi-
    realistically with compositional design
    solutions, developing your own
    personal symbolism and creating
    unity!  Karen will guide you daily with
    informative demonstrations and
    individual and/or group critiques. She
    has been teaching art and design for
    over forty years and has won major
    awards in AWS and other shows.
    Karen’s work is collected privately
    and corporately, in the USA, Europe
    and South America.
 
Karen Rosasco

Watermedia and Design
Studio Workshop

July 11 - 15, 2011
Bend, OR

Past

Beginning to Advanced

           In her current series of work, Karen is using a
    variety of watermedia in layers to achieve a highly
    textural and dynamic presentation. After 40 years of
    painting realistic interpretations of landscapes, florals
    and architectural themes, Karen finds this new
    concentration on the relationships between the basic
    elements of art (shape, value, line, color and texture) to
    be a more exciting personal approach to her art.
    Methods, materials and themes change, but a
    consistently good composition and design hold the
    viewer's eye.
             Her prize winning art work has been accepted in
    regional and national juried shows including the
    American Watercolor Society, Salmagundi Club and
    Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Exhibitions in NYC and can be
    found in private and corporate collections in the USA
    (General Electric, Harcourt Brace Education Testing,
    Price Chopper), Europe and South America. The Arkell
    Art Museum purchased a painting of Karen's for their
    contemporary collection and in 2006 she was awarded
    Best of Show at the Cooperstown, NY Regional Show
    "Essentials". Out of 1400 entries, she was awarded the
    Silver Medal for second place in the 2007 American
    Watercolor Society International Exhibition in NYC.
    Karen is a juried member of the Central New York
    Watercolor Society and the Oakroom Artists and
    belongs to many local art organizations.
 

          Articles and painting reproductions about Karen's
    work have appeared in national publications including
    The Palette and American Artist Watercolor
    magazines. Karen's artwork may be seen at the Local
    Color Gallery, Colonie NY, Pioneer Gallery and Fenimore
    Museum Gift Shop, Cooperstown NY, Abend Gallery,
    Denver CO, the Arkell Museum Gift Shop, Canajoharie
    NY, Departure Gift Shop, Albany International Airport
    and by appointment at her home in Delanson.
             Watermedia artist Karen K Rosasco graduated
    from the State University of NY at New Paltz with an
    honors degree in Art Education. She taught high school
    art for over 30 years helping students develop
    portfolios for the top design schools in the nation.
    During this time she also earned over 50 graduate
    credit hours and taught adults in evening courses for
    over 25 years. After retiring from public school
    instruction, Karen continues to teach adult classes and
    give week long watermedia workshops.

Workshop Outline
    Day One
    Prepare three sheets of paper for the afternoon
    Start 1: Demo of three starts with liquid acrylics
    Design work with shapes and values from B&W newspaper photos
    Review compositional possibilities - Gesso veils and shaping
    Day Two
    Start 2: Powdered charcoal
    Discussion and demo of ways to continue
    Start 3: Big dark
    Design work with color harmony and focal points
    Start 4: Drag
    Day Three
    Start 5: Collage
    Start 6: Gel textures
    Start 7: Crayon, wax, glue, paint
    Design work with transitions and line work
    Finish started work
    Find a direction, size, content or concept, integrate shapes, modify colors
    Critique of one painting
    Day Four
    Continue finishing work
    Add texture, gesso, stamping, soft touches, line work
    Find a figure, make a border, overlap shapes, build up depth, use grids
    Critique of two paintings
    Day Five
    Finishing paintings - Look for relationships: quiet versus texture, warm versus cool, big versus small, hard
    edges versus soft edges, geometric versus organic, make little marks
    2 PM final critique