Description: We will have clothed
models for both the morning and afternoon sessions.
In the morning, we will be working on a number
of different exercises designed to sharpen your
drawing skills and to teach you to draw with authority
and expression. In the afternoon, while painting
longer poses of the models in your chosen medium,
you will learn how to use an under painting to
tone your canvas, how to relate the foreground
to the background, and how to use contrasting Elements
of Design to strengthen your paintings. Level:
Beginning to advanced
Materials: A large
newsprint pad (about 18 x 24) · 2 Conte
crayons · Something
to cover your work table…such as a plastic
shower curtain or several large trash bags · And
your selected painting medium
Mediums: (please,
no pastels)
WATERCOLOR - (optional gouache and
Caran d'Ache crayons) Bring all of your watercolor
materials, several sheets of 140 or 300 # cold pressed
paper that have been painted with white Liquitex
gesso(that has been diluted with ½ water), and a backing
board or support to place behind your paper.
ACRYLIC - Bring all of your acrylic materials, several canvases
or sheets of paper, and an easel (optional)
OIL - Bring all of your oil materials, several canvases,
and an easel (optional). Oil painters must use
odorless solvents in class (no turpentine).
Location: Williamsburg
Community Building, 401 North
Boundary St., Williamsburg, VA 23185
Time: 9 am to 4 pm (The facility
will open at 8:30 am)
Lunch: 12:00 - 1:00 (Go out or
bring your own)
Fee: $90 members, $105 non-members /
Class size limited to 20 students.
BIO: Jan Ledbetter nws
Jan Ledbetter's mixed-media paintings are pictorial
tapestries layering observations and imagination,
design elements, abstract motifs and personal symbols.
Though her daughters, friends, and class models often
pose for her figurative paintings, she is never interested
in creating an exact likeness, but rather in using
the figure as a design element. Since traveling to
Central and South America, she has become interested
in painting the Maya women of Guatemala. By exploring
the relationships of value, shape, texture and color,
she leads us on a creative journey through each painting.
Balancing painting, teaching, and giving international
workshops, her work reflects the joy and passion that
she brings to every aspect of her life. She has taught
and exhibited for over thirty years and is represented
in numerous private and corporate collections.
Jan and her paintings were featured in American Artist
Watercolor Magazine, "The Joy of Paint and Paper," winter
2007, in Mary Todd Beam's new book The Creative Edge:
Exercises to Celebrate Your Creative Self, and have
been reproduced on posters for art festivals and charitable
events. Jan is a signature member of the National
Watercolor Society, the Southern Watercolor Society,
and the Virginia Watercolor Society and holds a MFA.
