Diane works in a variety of media, including pastel, oil, and watercolor. Her passion is dramatic light and shadow and clean, saturated color. I am particularly interested in the effect of light on snow, trees, rocks and water. Tonight [...]
It was all hands on deck last night when PPWS member Carol Naylor brought wax, stamps, paint, brushes, and rice paper for everyone to play with! Carol, a Signature member and former President of the Pikes Peak Watercolor Society, [...]
Our very own Signature Member, Karen Standridge, was our guest speaker for April. Karen always dreamed of being an artist, but her working life was spent teaching college English and literature. She retired early from college teaching to pursue [...]
Our guest speaker for March was Trevor Thomas. He talked about and demonstrated the power of light and shadows in paintings. Trevor said shadows are like mirrors, reflecting the colors of nearby objects. There are four main things [...]
Our guest speaker for February was PPWS member Pat Wiles. She was a very entertaining speaker and demonstrator! Pat drove up from Canyon City with one of her students. She told us a funny story about her student, (with [...]
Tonight’s demonstration was given by Ken Hartman. Ken is originally from Freemont County and has lived in Colorado Springs for the past 11 years. Aside from painting, Ken loves ballroom dancing, fishing, gardening, hiking, backpacking, and chess. [...]
