Hawaii

Molokai / Hui Ho'olana Retreat Center

Watercolor for Self-Expression
with artist Carol Duchamp

March 19 - 25, 2006 (6 days)

Class Fee: $1695 ($1550 before December 15, 2005)
(Includes classes, meals and accommodations)

Itinerary
Hui Ho'olana is a retreat center dedicated to creativity, healing and the arts. Hui Ho'olana provides an ideal environment for inspiration and a safe haven in which to nurture the creative spirit. Located on 100 acres on the island of Molokai, the Center sits at 1300' on a hill called Pu'ukolea. Molokai offers a taste of old Hawaii and the slower pace of island life. It is considered the sacred island by locals and is a vestige of Polynesian cultural tradition. This beautiful site offers everything we need to paint and relax, and perhaps take a step back in time. Delicious "family style" vegetarian meals plus fresh local fish are served daily. Day 1, Arrive Molokai/Orientation watercolor painting class and welcome dinner; Day 2-5, Watercolor painting classes, optional excursions and farewell art show and celebration of our work; Day 6, Wrap-up painting class.

Classes/Watercolor Painting for Self-Expression This art workshop is ideal for beginners, teachers, therapists and artists working in any medium who are seeking a fresh start. Whether your work moves in a realistic or abstract direction, class methods for evoking self-expression through the transparent magic of watercolor will be appreciated. Using a full range of non-traditional watercolor painting techniques, we will encourage 'the inner artist' to see and create a personal visual language. Class demonstration and discussion will include wetting the paper, color and pigment interaction, brushwork, edge shading, and the use of watercolor crayon. From the moment we wet our paper to the final sweep of form and color, we will attempt to evoke the presence of each artist in his or her work, discovering the personal palette of colors and shapes unique to each of us. All levels of watercolor painting skill are welcome, as are friends and spouses of art workshop participants.

Instructor
CAROL DUCHAMP, BA, Otterbein College, Ohio, M.A., University of Strasbourg, France, has been leading outdoor painting classes in the U.S. and abroad for 20 years. Her teaching style encourages experimentation and self-discovery in a supportive environment that nourishes the intuitive power of self-expression. Her own watercolor abstracts are rich in color, lushly saturated and sensual in form and have been described as 'cosmic, flowing and full of light." She has been showing her watercolor abstracts in and around the San Francisco Bay area for more than 10 years at Commonweal, the Bolinas Museum and Thomas Schwarz Booksellers among other locations. You may view selections of her paintings on the painting gallery page of this website.