Presenting Pamme Turner
- 13 September - 20 September 2025
Watercolours and gouache
In this week-long painting workshop, students will learn how to:
- Paint with both transparent and/or opaque art mediums “en plein air”, with an emphasis on beautiful watercolor techniques!
- Create successful COMPOSITIONS for both plein air and studio painting
- Create successful VALUE STUDIES which translate into strong watercolor or gouache paintings
- Understand LIGHT, SHADOW and ATMOSPHERE as it applies to outdoor painting
- Understand and adapt specialized drawing skills for watercolor and gouache painting
- Adapt strong details and simple figures in your watercolor and/or gouache paintings
- Create Pamme’s Essential ”Watercolor Art Notebook” with specialized art-note taking techniques (you will use these learned techniques for many future projects!)
This workshop is designed for beginners through to professional painters and designed to get you painting with great techniques and with confidence! After my two (2) instructional demos each day, we will be painting together outdoors at the Watermill and on location during the week, weather permitting. In inclement weather, painting days will be held in the studio or indoor locations.
All artists/levels are welcome!
Profile
As a professional artist with BFA/MFA degrees in Fine Arts and technical expertise in multiple and diverse art mediums, Pamme Turner is an art professor and former EI Department Chair of Fine and Liberal Arts at Saddleback College in Southern California. Her teaching expertise includes classes in Beginning through Advanced Watercolor and Oil/Acrylic Painting, Plein Air Painting, Intermediate/Advanced Studio Painting, Life Drawing, Ceramics and Art History.
She has lived and taught fine arts classes and art workshops all over the world — including in art schools, colleges, and in museums and universities on the East and West coasts (US), at Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) in Laguna Beach, California; in Mexico (Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende); in Spain, Italy and Greece and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as teaching numerous study abroad/ plein air painting workshops worldwide, most recently in Cuba.
She lived and worked for more than four years on the Greek island of Paros at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts, teaching Painting, Drawing, Sculpture/Ceramics, Art History and Greek Folkloric Dance. Her watercolors, gouache and egg tempera paintings, drawings and ceramics are included in museum collections and numerous exhibitions and private collections worldwide.
Her work has been exhibited in national and international venues, including in NYC, Los Angeles and Athens, Greece. She says: “Every day, my changing environment, either on location or in the studio, teaches me a unique artist’s lesson…to observe and react, not to preconceive the medium, method or outcome, to evaluate, interpret, focus and respond and…ultimately, to stay out of my own creative way.”
For more information visit Pamme’s traveling artist” blog, her artist website and her Instagram page,
Philosophy
Pamme’s philosophy: “I live my life as an artist and there is no art medium which is off-limits – I am fascinated by the creative art-making process and encourage my students to experience that same joy in all of their works.”
“I have always seen my own art as an organic process—riding the concept of creation as if it were a wave, never knowing exactly where it will crash, break or eventually flow. Whether working with watercolor, egg tempera, gouache, oil paint, watercolor pencils, mixed media, ink, or clay, my reaction to art mediums remains enthusiastically the same.” And on her teaching, Pamme says: “I am a “hands-on” instructor and my greatest joy is helping students get to be better painters/artists, both in the studio and on location. My teaching methods are all about making art connections and achieving personal growth for my students — and having each student leave a class or workshop with much more information about how to make their art better and more satisfying than they had before!
“All my teaching is about that “important takeaway” — what is the one thing that you can learn to do in a workshop or class to change and improve your art today–and I make sure that in each session, my students understand and practice and implement the teaching topic of the day. I want my students to have personal success in all their painting sessions and leave with a feeling of accomplishment and time well-spent.”
