Watercolor Your Town / Tacoma Neighborhood - Thursday, 4/23/26
EVENT DETAILS
Thursday, April 23rd from 6:30-8:30pm
This ticket is for an in-person event located at our Fircrest shop:
Paper Luxe
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Two palettes + dabs of watercolor in your choice of colors for mixing and taking home
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Pointed watercolor paint brush
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Map Template: 8 x 10", 9 x 12" or 11 x 14" sheet of watercolor paper (depending on selected map area) featuring the block outlines for you to fill in
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Basic instruction on how to watercolor at this scale neatly
University Place
Proctor
Ruston
West End
West Slope
Point Defiance
Downtown
Hilltop
McKinley Hill
Eastside
South Tacoma
South End
Stadium
North Slope
Central
Browns Point
Washington State*
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All ticket sales are FINAL. Tickets are transferable to another person, but NOT refundable or exchangeable. While we know life happens, unfortunately, due to the cost of pre-purchased materials and instructor fees, we simply cannot offer refunds or credits.
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If we do not have a minimum of 6 people registered for the workshop, we will need to cancel and refund your registration fee.
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We do occasionally take photographs and video at our workshops for sharing on social media and our website. If you are not comfortable with this, please let us know ahead of time and we will respect your wishes.
'Explorative, Cartographic, Earth-bound: My work interprets the emotional power of Place in peoples’ lives through familiar color and evocative form, using watercolor, ink and collage. Maps, Landscapes and Travel Sketches offer a visual memory of Place at three scales: aerial, distant yet omnipresent, and intimate/inhabited. Together, the variety of pieces manifest a place not only through its salient features but they evoke a wonder at the natural creations alongside personal memories made in place. Even while representing real tangible places, the work is abstract as visual perceptions trump informatics.
Color is subtle yet significant in my work. I am drawn to natural, muted colors that support the stronger lines and forms in the compositions. Colors are selected to match memories or the feelings that surface while transporting my mind to the place I am conjuring with brush + line. Through a range of familiar to abstract, I call the artwork "Art Maps." It is my education and practice as an architect and urban designer that led me to appreciate and manifest the sensory value of places. In my work, I hope to honor special places and the desire for mementos of these places in which we belong, thrive, remember and aspire to our truest selves.'
