“Atmospheric” Watercolor Workshop

Dates: August 3-5, 2023
Ari de Goes Jr is a Brazilian from São Paulo and had a career in advertising and marketing. Art director, Creative director and as a businessman owning his Ad Agency. He worked in the area of communication for more than 30 years, where he acquired experience in the creative process, art directions, Photography, entrepreneurship, administrative practices, leadership, mediation, coordination and group work, guidance and human development. Watercolor painter, he started professionally at age 14 as a draftsman in advertising agencies. Since 2011 he has developed his authorial work with watercolor in editorial projects, galleries and is a professor of technique and orientation of the individual artistic process for beginners and advanced students of watercolor. He conducts classes, workshops and monthly group trips in Brazil and International. He is founder of the Plein Air Project. As a plein air painter, promotes a monthly outdoor painting excursion with a group of students in the beautiful region of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Since 2015, he has coordinated Group of Studies and Experiments with the technique of watercolor in Florianópolis – Brazil. Director of Communication of the NGO Casa da Criança Morro da Penitenciária since 2018, with participation in social and artistic projects in the area of Childhood and adolescence.




PLACE: Rockport Art Center, Rockport Texas.
Ari de Goes Jr is a Brazilian from São Paulo and had a career in advertising and marketing. Art director, Creative director and as a businessman owning his Ad Agency. He worked in the area of communication for more than 30 years, where he acquired experience in the creative process, art directions, Photography, entrepreneurship, administrative practices, leadership, mediation, coordination and group work, guidance and human development. Watercolor painter, he started professionally at age 14 as a draftsman in advertising agencies. Since 2011 he has developed his authorial work with watercolor in editorial projects, galleries and is a professor of technique and orientation of the individual artistic process for beginners and advanced students of watercolor. He conducts classes, workshops and monthly group trips in Brazil and International. He is founder of the Plein Air Project. As a plein air painter, promotes a monthly outdoor painting excursion with a group of students in the beautiful region of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Since 2015, he has coordinated Group of Studies and Experiments with the technique of watercolor in Florianópolis – Brazil. Director of Communication of the NGO Casa da Criança Morro da Penitenciária since 2018, with participation in social and artistic projects in the area of Childhood and adolescence.