Image: Courtesy Ronna Fujisawa
When: Thursday, November 6, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Where: Virtual
Members: $22
Non-members: $33
*This is a digital art class.
In this class, students will paint a beautiful female Northern Cardinal portrait, learning how to mix neutral colors and techniques for layering colors to create various feather patterns. This is an online class open to all levels of watercolor painters. Beginners are welcome! Your instructor, Ronna Fujisawa will be your guide through the step-by-step process of painting. She is an avid bird watercolor artist residing in Portland, Oregon. Salty Water Art is her educational practice featuring classes on how to paint birds in watercolor and watercolor plein air workshops.
Learn more about our subject: The Northern Cardinal is an iconic bird, but less attention is given to the beautiful female of the species. A week or two before the female starts building, she starts to visit possible nest sites with the male following along. The pair call back and forth and hold nesting material in their bills as they assess each site. Nests tend to be wedged into a fork of small branches in a sapling, shrub, or vine tangle, 1-15 feet high and hidden in dense foliage. They use many kinds of trees and shrubs, including dogwood, honeysuckle, hawthorn, grape, red cedar, spruce, pines, hemlock, rose bushes, blackberry brambles, elms, sugar maples, and box elders. Learn more about Northern Cardinals here.
For more information or questions, contact ronnafujisawa@me.com.