Waterfall in Watercolors with Sarah Yeoman

Online Watercolor Workshop

Class Description

Join Sarah as she guides you through a step-by-step painting of a dramatic Adirondack waterfall. Sarah will also be demo-ing imagined landscape waterfalls as a warm up. Reference image and Sarah’s original painting below. We will draw the image together.

“Sit back and watch or paint along. The video is yours to watch forever (that’s a long time!) on the Arts Center’s YouTube Channel. (Please do not share the link with others.) I will send a drawing sketch to your email before class.” — Sarah Yeoman


2 reference images below. Sarah will email a drawing sketch ahead of class.


Materials

  • Brushes: Sarah will be using large rounds #16, #14 and flats.
  • Paper: Sarah will be using Arches 140lb cold press in a 12″ x 16″ or 14″ x 20″ format.
    Please paint whatever size you like on good quality paper (inexpensive papers are difficult to get the right results from). Sarah suggests Arches 140 lb, Saunders Waterford 140 lb, and Fabriano 140 lb.
  • Firm Backing Board
  • Masking Tape
  • Water Container
  • Sponge
  • Hair Dryer
  • Paper Towels

Sarah’s Palette:
This is Sarah’s standard palette for all workshops. You do not have to use the same colors.
• Jaune Brilliant #1
• Cad Yellow
• Cad Orange
• Cad Red
• Perm Rose
• Alizarin Crimson
• Burnt Sienna
• Yellow Ochre
• Sepia
• Lavender
• Cerulean
• Cobalt Blue
• Cobalt Turquoise Light or Cobalt Turquoise (Sarah asks that students have one or the other for this class)
• Ultramarine Blue
• Payne’s Grey
• Neutral Tint


References

Click to view/download.

Reference Photo
Reference Painting


This painting and its sole use are the property of Sarah Yeoman and may not be reproduced without permission. Paintings done in this workshop are for study purposes only and should not be sold or represented as the participant’s original work.

Sarah Yeoman

Sarah Yeoman

Painting Instructor @sarahyeomanart @sarahyeomanart

About the Instructor

After an early career as a singer/songwriter Sarah eventually discovered the watercolor medium and knew that she had found her clearest creative voice. She has been painting with watercolors for 35 years and is recognized for strength of story and her ability capture the fleeting qualities of light and its influence on form. Her years as a singer/songwriter flow through her process in the melodious and lyrical qualities of her paintings.

Sarah is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society and recently showed with the North American Watercolor Association at the Columbian Watercolor tricentennial in South America. She collaborated with the Harlem based Elisa Monte dance company who choreographed an original dance based on her painting I’ll Fly Away. Sarah was a faculty member for the 2018 Plein Air Convention in Santa Fe in addition to being featured in the Elie Saab Paris Haute Couture runway catalog with her painting Flight.

From her Crows and Ravens series to her to Brandywine Valley landscapes to her 40 years of painting, paddling, and exploring the Adirondacks of upstate NY from her family’s 100-year-old off-the-grid cabin, she is most at home in the woods and on the water.

Sarah is much sought after as a workshop instructor having taught plein air classes in Tuscany for the last 5 years, many other workshops throughout the US and Canada, and 10 years of classes in her Delaware studio. For more info contact Sarah at [email protected] or through her website Sarahyeoman.com.

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Questions? Please contact Tara at [email protected].