Confirmed For 2025: Atmospheric Landscapes and Seascapes - Instructor Debbie Abshear

Have you ever wondered how to loosen up your watercolor paintings? In this class you will learn to paint expressive, atmospheric watercolors that capture the feeling and mood of landscapes and seascapes.

We will use a limited palette of watercolors, a palette knife, sea salt, Chinese and round brushes on 100% cotton watercolor paper. We will add unique gestural marks to our paintings using inks and a twig.

Painting watercolors this way will help you capture and create memories of place, time and emotion. It will be a time of observing and embracing how the pigments and inks move in the water on your watercolor paper to allow the work to evolve. Plan on creating multiple paintings each day!

The class is designed for experienced as well as beginning painters. I will demonstrate the technique and then you will paint. There is very little drawing required for this class. Basically, all you will need is a horizon line! We will paint fast and have lots of fun creating work that you will be amazed that you created!

The ATMOSPHERIC WATERCOLOR Intensive is currently full.

Debbie is an artist who uses watercolor, acrylics, inks and collage in her work. She has painted Plein air for many years throughout California, Utah and Scotland and has a home studio where you can find her almost every day if she is not outdoors painting.

Debbie uses various techniques in her work and loves to create textures with a palette knife, inks, salt, and plastic wrap.  She enjoys creating atmospheric, expressive art that captures the essence and her own interpretation of the subject.

She has studied under many fine artists and taught weekly watercolor classes to adults and delivered numerous workshops and demonstrations to art societies in Southern California. Debbie taught multiple watercolor classes on zoom during the pandemic to 70+ students.

Debbie holds Signature Membership in the Watercolor West Art Society. She was a Governing Board Member of the National Watercolor Society for seven years serving as their Board Secretary and Building Chair.

Debbie has exhibited her work at the Santa Paula Museum of Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, U.S. Embassy of India, Fallbrook Art Center-Signature Member Show, National Watercolor Society and many other local venues in Southern California.