Fall 2008
Classes & Workshops

Colleen Ozora

September:

Watercolor classes: Beginning / Intermediate (3 sessions).
Tuesday, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23;   10am - 1pm.   Cost $80     
These on-going watercolor classes include color mixing, glazing, washes and other basic watercolor techniques. Right brain drawing exercises are incorporated as a warm-up to help students to see, draw and paint more freely. Different classes focus on different thenes, such as composition of value, and different subject matter or challenges in painting. Instructor demos and a relaxed, supportive atmosphere provide students with encouragement to paint both as a group and to explore subject matter of personal interest.

October:

Watercolor Classes - Beginning / Intermediate (3 sessions).
Tuesday 10/7, 10/14, 10/21;   10am - 1pm.    Cost $80
On-going watercolor classes - see above.

Painting Autumn Colors in the Landscape
Friday 10/24, 9:30am – 4:00 pm.     (1 day workshop) Cost $80
For this landscape workshop, bring your own photos or other resource materials of fall in your favorite places to work from - or work from instructor's resource materials. We'll focus on composition, color mixing and value to create an autumn landscape painting. Bring your watercolor supplies and a sack lunch.

November:

Watercolor Classes - Beginning / Intermediate (3 sessions).
Tuesday 11/4, 11/11, 11/18;   10am - 1pm.    Cost $80
On-going watercolor classes - see above.

Painting Rain and Snowin the Landscape
Friday 11/14, 9:30am – 4:00 pm.     (1 day workshop) Cost $80
Bring your own photos of your favorite snow or rain scenes, or other resource materials to work from - or work from instructor's resource materials. We'll focus on composition, color mixing, value and watercolor techniques to create impressions of rain and snow in the landscape. Bring your watercolor supplies and a sack lunch.

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Artist statement:

“I find transparent watercolor to be the most exciting medium to express light and color.  And I enjoy sharing my love of animals and all of nature with other people through my artwork. Each opportunity I have to paint feels like a gift.” 

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, the artist grew up in Boulder, Colorado, at the foot of the Colorado Rockies enjoying books, music, animals, hiking and horseback riding. Growing up in Colorado gave her a lifelong love of animals, nature, and light.

An exchange student to Japan in both high school and college, Colleen traveled extensively in Japan, visiting rural villages famous for pottery, bamboo crafts, woodcarving, lacquerware and other traditional handicrafts.  Scholarships enabled her to study at Waseda University in Tokyo; outside of her academic classes, she studied sumi-e (ink painting) with a traditional teacher.  After graduation from Earlham College, she moved to Seattle where she worked for 8-1/2 years at the Consulate General of Japan as a speechwriter and Administrative Assistant.  She and her husband met at the Consulate.

Since 1993, she has taken a variety of watercolor workshops and classes through Daniel Smith, at local community centers and colleges, and in New Mexico, with artists including Elroy Christensen, Jan Hart, Sandra Kahler, Caroline Buchanan, and Ann Breckon.  The artists with whom she’s studied most extensively, and who’ve influenced her work the most, are Jan Hart and Sandra Kahler.

Colleen has shown her work in local juried shows including the Edmonds Arts Festival, Finnfest USA (at the University of Washington), Arts of the Terrace (all in 1999), and ICHS in Coupeville in 2002, where her painting was selected for inclusion in the 2003 ICHS calendar, and purchased for the permanent collection at the Admiralty Point Lighthouse Museum. In 2005 and 2006 she’s had paintings in a number of shows including the Annual Seattle Co-Arts’ shows, Arts of the Terrace, and the Artists’ Connect shows in Edmonds, Washington.

Colleen Ozora currently works out of her home studio, creating watercolor paintings; doing fine art portrait commissions; designing cards and teaching classes and workshops at Artworks in Edmonds, Washington and Shoreline Community College in Shoreline, Washington.  She draws inspiration from the islands, animals and tulip fields of the Pacific Northwest, and from the landscape and Native American cultures and arts of New Mexico and Colorado.  From long exposure to Japanese arts, she has an affinity for ink and finds beauty in simplicity of line and design.