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THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF WATERCOLORFREDERICK C. GRAFF AWS, NWS, TWSA (Master Status)
Frederick C. Graff is one of the foremost watercolor instructors of today and is a signature member of all three major watercolor societies: American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, and Transparent Watercolor Society of America “Master Status”. He has received over 80 National, Regional and State awards of recognition. Fred received his BS degree in Art Education from Miami University and has since been conducting numerous watercolor workshops throughout the United States and abroad for the last forty-one years. His work has been featured in Watercolor Techniques For Releasing the Creative Spirit; Creative Watercolor Workshop and International Artist, in addition to many other publications. www.fredgraff.com |
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FREDERICK C. GRAFF AWS, NWS, TWSAFrederick C. Graff is one of the foremost watercolorists of today. He is among a select group of watercolorists who are signature members of all three major watercolor societies: American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, and Transparent Watercolor Society of America “Master Status”. His continuous growth and development in his pursuit of watercolor has enabled him to be a leading artist/educator in the field of watercolor painting. Artist’s Statement: A native of the Western Reserve, Frederick C. Graff resides in his hometown of Medina, Ohio with his wife Jan, who is his workshop and gallery coordinator. They have two children, Kari (Industrial Engineer, Purdue University) and Wyatt (MFA, Savannah College of Art and Design). In addition to his art, he has actively been involved in extensive restoration of their Italianate style Victorian home. Upon graduation from Miami University, Fred studied privately with the late Franklin A. Bates. He pursued additional graduate work at both Kent State University and the University of Akron. In addition to being a retired art teacher for the Berea City Schools, Fred has been conducting numerous watercolor workshops, demonstrations, and critiques throughout the United States and abroad for the last forty years. His work has been featured in Watercolor Techniques For Releasing the Creative Spirit; Creative Watercolor Workshopand International Artist (February/March 2002), in addition to other publications. His diverse approach to watercolor painting has continued to attract individual and corporate collectors, including: Permanent Collection of the Governor’s Mansion of Ohio; Bank One; Wausau Insurance Co.; General Tire; Mobay Chemical; Dayton Citizen Federal; Cambridge Savings and Loan; Union Carbide; Guernsey Savings and Loan; Akron Beacon Journal; Key Bank; Zanesville Art Center; and many other corporate and private collections. He has been accepted in numerous top national, state, and regional exhibits, some of which include: AMERICAN WATERCOLOR SOCIETY TRANSPARENT W/C SOC. OF AMERICA ALLIED ARTISTS OF AMERICA EXHIBITION NATIONAL WATERCOLOR SOCIETY BUTLER MIDYEAR NATIONAL OHIO WATERCOLOR SOCIETY SIGNATURE AMERICAN WATERCOLOR EXHIBITION
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This energetic, five-day workshop is specifically designed for intermediate and advanced level watercolor students. Fred’s forty-one years of teaching experience and diverse approach to transparent watercolor painting enables him to easily relate to the needs of each individual student. In order to become familiar with everyone’s personal style and direction of painting, Fred will begin the workshop by reviewing a painting from each participating student. This review will in turn allow the students to become acquainted with Fred’s teaching philosophy in regards to the basic elements and principles of design. These compositional theories and thoughts will be further emphasized with numerous painting assignments, exercises, demonstrations, open discussions, PowerPoint presentation, lectures and one-on-one instruction that will continue throughout the week. Fred feels it is essential that students need to go beyond the level of just recording facts and therefore major emphasis will be placed on how to successfully develop a painting through a harmonious blend of different traditional and innovative approaches to watercolor. Some of the different topics that will be presented will include preliminary studies, abstract underglazes, negative painting, understanding how to maintain natural whites through vignettes, wet-in-wet painting approaches, exploring different painting surfaces including Yupo, lost-and-found concepts, and most importantly, composition and design. Fred’s ultimate objective is to provide a learning experience that will allow students to further expand their own personal style and direction of painting.
