Artist/Instructor: Jennifer Koury
Saturday’s March 1, 8, 15, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Fee: $125 members/$155 not-yet-members (for the workshop series)
All supplies included
Explore watercolor’s flowing and brilliant color while discovering its transparent pigments. Use water and pigment ratio to affect luminosity and create layered color mixing. Each pigment has unique, beautiful qualities. Over the three-week workshop, participants will begin to develop personal approaches to the watercolor medium, mark making, brush control, and water manipulation for flowing paint and beautiful effects unique to the watercolor medium. The workshop is for participants to build their skills as a painter.
Week one: Washes, and gradations for color transitions. Using water to facilitate blossoming and movement of paint.
Week two: Mixing and mingling color using water pigment ratios and the dampness of the paper while controlling the brush. Definitive mark making and brush manipulation using the full range of the bristles.
Week three: Washes and layering paint. Edge control using water versus pigment ratio and paper dryness versus dampness ratio.
About the Instructor
Jennifer Koury is a Buffalo-based artist, freelance illustrator, and arts educator. She instructs for The Roycroft Campus, Springville Center for the Arts, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s International Center for Watercolor. Jennifer has taught a weekly series of watercolor workshops inspired by Suddenly I Awoke: The Dream Journals of Charles E. Burchfield. She is represented by Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY. In 2022, her works were featured in Luminance, a four-person watercolor exhibit at Meibohm Fine Arts. In 2023, Koury’s plein air paintings inspired by Emery Park’s old growth forest were highlighted in a two-person exhibition Whose Woods These Are at Springville Center for the Arts. She has exhibited her paintings in both solo and group shows, and won awards, including being finalist in the Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Her art is featured in the NFWS Mary Whyte Gallery Walk video, George Washington's Mount Vernon Visitor Center, and Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona. Her illustrations appear in many children's books as well as volumes for adults. She is a member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, and a signature member of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society and a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society. She holds degrees in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia and Art Center College of Design, California.
For Further information please contact Kathy Shiroki