Watercolor Impressions- How to Create Luminous Watercolors
with Al Kline
September 4th - 6th, 2025 | 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
With 1 Hour Lunch Break
204 S Austin Street in Rockport, Texas.
$310 for Members, $360 for Nonmembers.
Class Description:
Day 1: FOUNDATIONS OF LUMINOUS WATERColor
Morning:
Introduction, materials overview (papers, brushes, paints)
Demonstration: Mixing clean, transparent washes and a 3 stage approach to painting waterfcolor.
Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, gradations, glazing for luminosity. How to create atmospheric paintings with depth.
Understanding a painting tonal values and how they are painted in watercolor. Light studies using a simple object to paint describing transparent washes and how to create form shadows. Defining shadow types .
Afternoon:
Exercise: Layering washes - Paint Along Demonstration in Atmospheric painting and 3 stage approach to painting.
Practicum: Brush Techniques in watercolor painting (Paint Along Demo)
Group Review & Q&A
Day 2: Capturing Light and Color
Morning:
Color theory for luminosity (warm vs cool, complementary contrasts)
Demonstration: How to compose and design a watercolor painting. Demo in preserving whites, reserving highlights in First (negative painting), Creating contrast and the focal area in the 2nd wash and detailing the finished painting.
Afternoon:
Exercise Demo with Paint Along: Reinforcing color theory and unification in a painting.
Workshop Techniques: Advanced techniques in creating textures and brush techniques in watercolor. Exploring variation in edges in watercolor.
Peer Feedback Session
Day 3: Advanced Luminous & Textural Effects & Personal Project
Morning:
Demo: Soft edges, backruns, blooms, and controlled diffusions and letting watercolor paint itself (Dog Portrait Demonstration)
Special topics: Integrating the entire process to create atmospheric depth, transparent shadows, and focal areas that convey a sense of feeling in your paintings.
Afternoon:
Personal Project: Paint a subject of your choice.
One-on-one critiques and troubleshooting
Final group critique, tips for framing and exhibiting watercolors
About the Instructor:
Al Kline is the President of the Watercolor Society of South Texas (WSSTX.ORG).
He was born in Holland to Dutch parents. He moved to the United States as a young child. He showed interest in art including watercolor at a young age. He spent the majority of his working life providing medicine and surgical services to his community for the past 30 years.
In 2017, he re-discovered the art of drawing and watercolor and was voted as president of the Watercolor Society of South Texas in 2018.
In 2020, he began to focus more on teaching watercolor for the Watercolor Society of South Texas, which has a rich history of promoting watercolor art in South Texas for the past 50 years.
Through teaching, and now online instruction, he has gained international recognition as a watercolor artist. He has won numerous awards in both local and state-wide shows.
AWARDS
Vava Callahan Memorial Award with “Lonely Loco” Tri-Group 54th Annual Art Exhibition -2018
1st Place – 48th Annual Watercolor Society of South Texas for “Dock Inspection”. – 2018
Best in Painting Category – 2018 Rockport Art Fest
Selected Acceptance to the 55th, 56th, 57th Annual Members Show for the Southwestern Watercolor Society- 2018, 2019, 2020
Honorable Mention- 49th Annual watercolor Society of South Texas for “CC Marina Glow”. – 2019
Peoples Choice Award – 2019 Helotes Art Gallery
Past Presidents Award – 56th Annual Members Exhibition of the Southwestern Watercolor Society (SWS) 2019 – “The Piper”
Honorable Mention – “Lion Dance” – Tri-Group 56th Annual Art Exhibition-2020
Second Place, 50th Anniversary Watercolor Society of South Texas for “Port A Flat Boat” - 2020
Award of Distinction - 57th Annual Members Exhibition of the Southwestern Watercolor Society (SWS) 2020 - “Kairos”
NWS Member Participant Selection - NWS Members Exhibition 2021 - “Spots”
“The key ingredients to winning watercolors begin with a good drawing, understanding tone and exploiting edges, texture and depth.”
-Al Kline
3 Day Workshop
September 4th - 6th, 2025 | 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
$310 members, $360 non-members