What our Members are Saying:
“I just want to thank you for your many contributions to all of us who are members of WSST. I am so appreciative of your ability to instruct in a sequential manner, as well, as your artistic talents. In addition, your knowledge of all the technical and administrative skills necessary to successfully do what you do, makes me feel connected though I live in Maryland. Bottom line is…I feel blessed to have found your website, and you, who bring all these elements together. Again, thank you.” ~GD
“Thank you! I so appreciate your mini-zoom sessions and the guest artist sessions. You’ve built a very vibrant artists community and it’s wonderful.” ~SV
ZOOM ARCHIVED MINI-WORKSHOPS AND MONTHLY SUNDAY PAINTING CLASSES WITH THE WSST
WSST Monthly Sunday Paintings and our archived ZOOM Mini-Workshops are just $35 for the year and FREE to our members!
Guest artist demonstrations are $15 for and open to both members and non-members for the LIVE WORKSHOP. If you miss the LIVE scheduled workshop and you are not a member, cost for the recording is $55. All recordings past and future professional guest workshops are $15 to our members.
Proceeds for the $15 professional guest workshops go directly to the artist giving the demonstration. The WSST only benefits from it’s membership.
We ask for a subscription of $35/year and receive access to our workshop archive and $15 LIVE professional guest workshop.
You can pay for your membership on our JOIN PAGE. This will grant you access to our Archived ZOOM classes for 2021-2023 and includes access to our VIDEO ARCHIVE as long as your membership remains current. This is over 100 hours of class instruction!
Being a member also has great benefits including entry to our yearly Members Exhibition and special discounts. You can go to our JOIN PAGE to see a list of our membership benefits!
Once you join, you will receive a welcome email with further information and password to our archive usually within 1 business day.
Mini-Workshops and Sunday Monthly Painting Classes
Zoom Mini-Workshop #36
June 4th, 2023 – Sunday, 1-3pm CST
Sunday “Member Artist” Painting Demos
Join the WSST for our monthly Sunday painting instruction . These classes are FREE to our members and offered by members of our society. Learn classic and specialized techniques from our own member’s artists to improve your own skill set! Join Al Kline on June 4th to paint this harbor scene recorded in HD. (photo courtesy Martin Damboldt).
Upcoming WSST Zoom Demonstrations with Special Guest Artists
$15 FEE for our MEMBERS
Join the WSST for monthly Sunday painting instruction from world class watercolor artists and instructors. These demonstrations cast $15 for our members and can be viewed without restrictions in our archive. Learn classic and specialized techniques from these master artists to improve your own skill set!
Gordon Jones 2023 Zoom Mini-Workshop
June 18th, 2023 – Sunday, 1-4pm CST
Gordon “Gord” Jones has always been an artist. After experiencing many different mediums such as oils, pastels, acrylics, even egg tempera he returned to his greatest love, transparent watercolour.
Gord has sought direction throughout his artistic career from many of Canada’s most loved watercolourists. He has always found visual communication speaks clearest, even though his interpretations leave room for the viewer to explore and most importantly, participate in the conversation.
He focuses on taking familiar life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of nature and how light describes its many forms. Gord seeks to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotional reaction and transferring that sense of space.
Gord is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, The Society of Canadian Artists, and enjoys memberships inthe Niagara Frontier Watercolour Society, The Haliburton Arts Council, the Rails End Gallery, and is Ontario”s representative of the International Watercolour Society. Gord is a certified Adult Educator. He is represented by various galleries in Ontario and participates in selected exhibitions throughout the year.
After cottaging in the area for over 30 years, Gord and family have made Haliburton their home.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR GORD’s WORKSHOP – Fee $15 for MEMBERS
SEND CHECKS to : Al Kline – President WSST, 4833 Saratoga Blvd #504, Corpus Christi, Texas 78413-2212 (Put name of workshop on the check and email address please)
Dhruba Mazumder 2023 Zoom Mini-Workshop
July 16th, 2023 – Sunday, 10-1pm CST
Dhruba Mazumder is a professional artist from Romania and lives in Bucharest. He is a member of the IWS of Romania and has been painting watercolor for over 10 years. He is an avid plein air and studio watercolor artist. Dhruba will discuss his technique of monochrome painting in watercolor.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR DHRUBA’S WORKSHOP – Fee $15 for MEMBERS
SEND CHECKS to : Al Kline – President WSST, 4833 Saratoga Blvd #504, Corpus Christi, Texas 78413-2212 (Put name of workshop on the check and email address please)
Tim Saternow 2023 Zoom Mini-Workshop
September 17th, 2023 – Sunday, 1-4pm CST
“I make the city quiet.”
Tim Saternow is an American painter whose watercolor paintings explore the lost and forgotten areas on the edges of the urban scene. His work encompasses the old High Line train trestle above the gritty industrial streets of New York City, the empty homesteads of Joshua Tree, California, and the dignified and genial old houses of Provincetown, on Cape Cod.
Saternow, trained as a set and lighting designer in theater, and as an art director in film, has always used his design sensibilities to make paintings that tell stories of the people who live in these places.
He paints large architectural landscape watercolors with a thick use of watercolor paint, playing with the tension between the illusions of depth, carefully drawn linear perspective, and an obvious play on the surface of the paper through watermarks, paint runs, blooms and spatters. Saternow is particularly sensitive to the emotive power of light, especially the distinct light of fall and winter creating deep shadows while playing across the faces of the old brick townhouses in New York and the weathered clapboard of Cape Cod.
Tim Saternow was awarded the 2019 Fellowship with The Clark Hulings Fund, and is currently a Executive Fellow in the Clark Hulings Fund’s Art-Business Accelerator Program.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ZOOM WORKSHOP – Fee is $15 for Members
SEND CHECKS to : Al Kline – President WSST, 4833 Saratoga Blvd #504, Corpus Christi, Texas 78413-2212 (Put name of workshop on the check and email address please)
Herman Pekel 2023 Zoom Mini-Workshop
October 15th, 2023 – Sunday, 5-8pm CST
Herman Pekel was born to Dutch parents in Melbourne, Victoria in 1956.
The art teachers of Herman’s youth, Roger Webber, Ernest Buckmaster and Lance McNeill were all primarily oil painters, but the experience of painting with them on location left a strong impression; giving him the freedom of spontaneity and leaving him an intuitive painter, ultimately working from the light source.
Like many young artists Herman experimented for a time with abstract expressionism, but he is now well known for his oils and watercolours. Herman is an artist of energy and enthusiasm; able to see a painting in almost any subject matter and capable of producing award-winning work in oil, watercolour or gouache.
Environmental issues are a great concern to Herman and his love of the landscape reflects that in almost everything he paints. He produces paintings of strong design and powerful impact – every brushstroke vibrant and visible. The scope of Herman’s work ranges from dynamic industrial scenery to soft, draped interiors and broad Australian landscapes, which indicates the creatively fearless nature of this unique artist.
Herman’s many awards include winning the 1989, 1993, 1995 and 2006 Camberwell Rotary Watercolour Prize, the 2004 Camberwell Rotary Art Show’s Best Oil and the 1989 and 1993 Alice Bale Award. He was also a three-time finalist of the Camberwell Rotary Travel Scholarship.
In 1994, the National Taiwan Art Institute asked Herman to participate in a book and travelling exhibition with selected artists from Australia, USA and Taiwan.
Herman exhibits his work regularly in the USA.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ZOOM WORKSHOP – Fee is $15 for Members
SEND CHECKS to : Al Kline – President WSST, 4833 Saratoga Blvd #504, Corpus Christi, Texas 78413-2212 (Put name of workshop on the check and email address please)
If you missed a past Special Guest Artist Workshop!
If you missed a past workshop, don’t worry, we have you covered! Just CLICK BELOW on the GUEST ARTIST ARCHIVE. You can read a biography of each artist and decide if you want to purchase that workshop.
Once you purchase the workshop, you will be given a unique password to a resource page that includes the ZOOM video and all the resource material including the photo references, any downloads required for the paint-along and a picture of the final painting!
You will have unique access to this page and be able to view the video as many times as you like!
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