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Zhaoming Wu Charcoal Drawing

LIVE ONLINE COURSE

CREATE COLORFUL INTERIORS IN WATERCOLOR

with Kristen Olson Stone, Master Artist & Mentor
Learn to capture light, shadow, and movement to create interior paintings that invite the viewer in!
You Will Learn:
DESIGN: How to implement design and composition techniques including perspective to make your room look 3-dimensional. This will be a different approach to that of traditional landscape design.
TEXTURE: How to build depth and texture with brushwork technique, for example, how to paint a wicker basket or an oriental rug.
COLOR: How to choose the right colors for the right space within the room, using transparent and semi opaque hues. Interiors are often more colorful than landscapes!
WATERCOLOR TECHNIQUES: How to layer paint and create intricate edgework like an impressionist using a round brush and the ever versatile and popular dagger brush.
COMPOSITION: How to compose an inviting interior scene with interesting shapes and light that draws the viewer in for a closer look. Kristen will also demo some drawing techniques with permanent ink.
VALUES: How and where to place light, medium and dark values to create depth, form and warmth in your painting. Just like landscapes, interiors have light and shadow too!
Audience: Fine Art Painters
Mediums: Watercolor
Stage: Aspiring, Emerging
Session Dates & Times:
Sunday
October 26th, 2025
10:00 am – 3:00 pm MT
1-hour lunch break

$103.00

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Course Description

The joy and challenge of painting interiors is to make the room feel alive, inviting, and interesting, drawing the viewer in to look around and explore. 

This is a completely different challenge than landscape painting, where the goal is often to create depth and atmosphere.

In this workshop, Kristen Olson Stone will show you how to simplify complicated reference photos into clear, interlocking shapes and then build them up with brushwork, layering, and color to bring the scene to life.

🎥 COURSE RECORDINGS available for 1-MONTH after the course ends!

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Supply List
  • Leadholder with 2B lead
  • Staedtler white plastic eraser
  • Permanent ink pen, it’s important that you use
    permanent, waterproof ink. I use De Atramentis
    Document Ink or Archival Ink in black. You can use a
    Micron pen size .05 or a refillable pen with an “F” or
    Fine nib
  • Posca 7mm bullet tip white acrylic pen
  • Brushes; Silverbrush Black Velvet Round #8, Belle Aqua
    1/4″ dagger or sword brush
  • Paper; Arches block of 140lb or 300gsm cold press or
    rough paper
  • I will demonstrate with the following color palette;
    Rembrandt Watercolor Paints
    1.) Permanent yellow lemon or Cadmium lemon
    2.) Azo yellow deep or Pyrole orange
    3.) Yellow ochre
    4.) Transparent oxide red or Burnt sienna
    5.) Permanent red deep
    6.) Quinacridone rose
    7.) Quinacridone purple bluish or Mauve
    8.) Ultramarine blue deep
    9.) Cobalt blue
    10.) Pthalo blue cerulean
    11.) Pthalo green
    12.) Hookers Green deep
Instructor Bio

A meticulous artist, Kristen enjoys painting a wide range of subjects, recently she has been working on a series of intricate paintings of interior scenery. These watercolor and ink paintings are full of charming details, they are joyful and fun to view. She adds pets to some of these paintings. Kristen’s style of painting is a contemporary blend of realism and impressionism. She is an award winning artist who has been featured in Plein Air Magazine and The New Zealand Artist Magazine. Her paintings are lovingly collected worldwide, they hang in corporate and private collections including ASB Bank, Bank Of Hawaii, The Mauna Lani Bay Hotel, The Collection of President and Michelle Obama and The New Zealand Parliament.

CV includes study at the following:

  • The University of Maryland, College Park BA Geography/ Fine Arts/ German language
  • The Art Students League, NYC with full scholarship
  • The California Art Institute
    Otis Parsons, LA
Create Colorful Interiors in Watercolor<br />
Create Colorful Interiors in Watercolor
Create Colorful Interiors in Watercolor
Create Colorful Interiors in Watercolor
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