2011-2012 Exhibits and Watercolor Workshops with Tom Hoffmann

2011 Exhibition Schedule

November 2011

Fountainhead Gallery

625 W McGraw Street
Seattle, WA. 98119
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November 2011

Oak Hollow Gallery

5631 Summitview Ave
Chalet Place -Yakima, Washington

Watercolor Classes & Workshops

All Levels Painting Class

Tuesdays, 2-5, 1/17-3/20

Work in a small group setting, with plenty of one-on-one time, plus the benefits of diverse points of view. Class begins with a group discussion of work in progress, then moves to individual problem solving, highlighted by Tom's demonstrations.

Class meets in the Madrona neighborhood. Email or call for details.

Tuition $400 for ten weeks

THIS CLASS IS FULL

Paint Science Workshop

12/6 & 7, 10 am- 4 pm

Have you always meant to get around to studying the properties of the various pigments in your palette - transparency/opacity, staining/non-staining, permanent/fugitive, which colors to put on top of which? Was it never quite the right time? Well, this is it! Through exercises, experiments and comparative paintings, we will take a quasi-scientific approach to exploring and recording the behavior of paint. Limited to ten participants. Workshop to be held in the Madrona neighborhood.

Tuition $200. THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL

Landscape Elements

12/13 & 14, 10am-4pm

Skies, water, mountains, rocks and trees - do any of these basic features of landscape painting give you trouble? Welcome to the club! Spend two days of intensive practice controlling color, value, wetness and composition to give just the emphasis you want to the components of your landscapes. Limited to ten participants. Workshop to be held in the Madrona neighborhood.

Tuition $200. THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL

Oaxaca Workshop

March 25-31, 2012

¡Vamos a Oaxaca una vez mas! This will be the fourth excursion to this World Heritage Site and cultural center of Mexico. If you have ever considered joining the group of painters on this trip, now is the time. Next year we will be moving on from Oaxaca. This is the last chance to take advantage of Tom's familiarity with the spectacular array of painting subjects this region offers. We will paint among 2000 year old Mixtec and Zapotec ruins and 16th century colonial architectural treasures, in lively mercados and tranquil gardens, on rooftops and in elegant courtyards, in museums and monasteries and stone yards and brick factories. And when we are not painting, we will take in the never-ending parade of concerts, ballets folkloricos, art exhibits, processions, puppet shows, wedding celebrations, impassioned speeches, firework displays, marching bands and ice sculpture competitions that comprise the average week in Oaxaca. Oh, and we'll eat Oaxacan food. Limited to ten participants. Call or email for details.

Tuition $700. THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL

Puerto Escondido

April 3-7, 2012

After a week in Oaxaca City, I will be ready for a few days at a world-class beach. Actually, Puerto Escondido is a string of beaches, ranging from gentle lagoons to spectacular surf, all within walking distance of the town. There is a tourist buzz near the surfing beach, but the rest of the town is a regular, small Mexican community, with a sweet marketplace, and all the ordinary hardware stores and flat tire repair shops (always bright yellow?!) that make fine painting subjects. The region, on the West coast of the state of Oaxaca, features fishing boats, estuarial wildlife refuges, coffee and fruit plantations, tiny villages, and, half an hour down the coast, fancy resort developments, where there is not as much to paint. Limited to ten participants. Call or email for details.

Tuition $500. Tuition for both Oaxaca and Puerto Escondido $1000. FIVE SPOTS LEFT IN THIS WORKSHOP

Gage Academy Classes

Three levels of watercolor taught by Tom Hoffmann are offered each term at Gage
Enroll through the Academy, www.gageacademy.org

Private Instruction

Please email tom@hoffmannwatercolors.com for more information about private instruction.