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Christmas Workshop: DECEMBER 7th - 14th, 2008

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Yagul, Oaxaca

Monte Alban, Oaxaca

Mitla, Oaxaca

Oaxaca, Oaxaca

Monte Alban

The state of Oaxaca has a long tradition of producing or attracting great artists. Tamayo, Toledo, and Morales as well as the writer D.H. Lawrence, to name only a few, lived and traveled in many exotic regions but found Oaxaca to be their preferred home. This is not surprising, given the beauty of the landscape and the myriad of wonders both natural and manmade that lie upon it. Oaxaca also claims the largest ethnic population in all of Mexico and thus providing an extraordinarily rich store of customs and traditions.

The city of Oaxaca itself contains a wealth of museums and galleries displaying every type of art from pre-Hispanic to contemporary. Markets throughout the city provide artisan goods of all manner and make. Restaurants offer dishes to satisfy any customer, but also specialize in the native moles, tamales and the famous Oaxaca "string" cheese.

In addition to the numerous historic sites and edifices within the city, there are also the great Zapotec ceremonial center of Monte Alban atop a nearby hill fifteen minutes from downtown and the ruins of Mitla, Yagul and Dainzu within an hour's drive from the center.

During the holiday season of Christmas and New Year's, the city is alive with celebrations that visitors from all over the world come to witness and take part in. It is in this setting of ceremonies, processions, and fireworks that these watercolor classes are offered. The atmosphere of Oaxaca provides great stimulation and the workshop provides the forum in which to express the emotions and inspirations of that stimulation through the use of special techniques.

Beginning students will be given an easier approach to watercolor painting using a "loose" technique and a small palette. It will allow intermediate students to experiment with mixed media using watercolor together with oil pastel, pencil, ink washes and other techniques in which a great emphasis is placed on the "flow" of water and pigment.

Depending on individual skills, students may be working in still life, landscape, floral and botanical, or abstract format, and in the process, learn ever more technical aspects of watercolor painting as well as artistic considerations such as color, composition, and value.

Click Here to Register for the Oaxaca Watercolor Workshop with Edina Sagert