Watercolour Demonstration 99ABOUT THE ARTIST
Shari Blaukopf is a Montreal-based painter,
graphic design teacher, sketch blogger and
correspondent for Urban Sketchers. She has a BFA
from Concordia University with a specialization in
graphic design, but her true love has always been
watercolor painting.
She is co-founder of Urban Sketchers Montreal
and has given many watercolor workshops both
on her own and internationally through the Urban
Sketchers Workshop Program. Her watercolors
are in corporate, government and private
collections in North America and abroad, and she
is a signature member of the Canadian Society of
Painters in Watercolour. She is the author of The
Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with Color,and you can fi nd her online courses Sketching
Landscapes in Pen, Ink and Watercolor and
Sketching the City in Pen, Ink and Watercolor on
http://www.mybluprint.com.
These days she spends her winters painting
snow scenes and her summers outdoors, giving
workshops and painting the urban landscape.
Contact at
http://www.shariblaukopf.com
http://www.blaukopfwatercolours.com
Find me on
/blaukopfwatercolours
@sharisketcherSTAGE 7 SMALL TREES AND BRANCHES
Spring Snow, watercolor, 11 x 15" (28 x 38 cm)
The final stage is to add details: trees both near and far, as well as small branches and the few remaining leaves
clinging to them. I make sure to paint distant trees in a lighter value than the foreground ones.