To enroll in a workshop or class please send a check made out to Tom Hoffmann for half the tuition. Deposit is fully refundable up to thirty days before the start of the workshop or class.
We intend to adjust to difficult or dangerous conditions by following current best practices. By enrolling in a class or workshop you are taking full responsibility for your health and safety.
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Tom Hoffmann | 308 32nd Avenue | Seattle, WA 98122
All Levels Watercolor Classes
Winter January 18, 2022
10 Tuesdays,900 am – 12:00 pm
Tuition: $440 (no class Feb 22)
This all-levels class will be taught in person.
THIS CLASS IS FULL. TO BE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST PLEASE CONTACT TOM
Winter January 19, 2022 to March 30, 2022 Wednesdays, 1pm to 4pm Tuition:$440 (no class Feb 23)
This all levels class will be taught remotely
A small class setting allows plenty of one-on-one attention and a robust exchange of ideas within the group. Each session begins with a critique. Homework is provided via Tom’s blog.
THE REMOTE ALL LEVELS CLASS IS FULL. TO BE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST PLEASE CONTACT TOM
Seattle: Abstraction in Watercolor
4-day workshop December 8-11, 2021
Tuition $440
More and more the form/content scale is tipping toward form, leaving content out in plein air. Even there, the paintings want to be stripped down to the essentials. This is serious fun! Leave the rules at home.
THE ABSTRACTION WORKSHOP IS FULL. TO BE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST PLEASE CONTACT TOM
tomhoffmannwatercolors @gmail.com
The Palouse
4 -day workshop
Friday – Monday, May 13 – 16, 2022
Tuition $440
The grand scale sculpting of land forms in the Palouse and the delicate harrowing of the surfaces combine to create a quilt of pure form; shapes and colors that want to be painted. You cannot exaggerate this landscape. Try, and it will show you something you could never have dreamed of. The Palouse workshop will be attended person to person.
Lopez Island
4-day workshop
Friday–Monday, August 12–15, 2022
Tuition $440
My very first workshop was on Lopez, thirty years ago. There’s a lot to be said for knowing a location well, and a lot to to be said for workshops. By the end of the fourth day of painting all day, a strong feeling of confidence arises. We learn to trust our instincts, and develop a feel for when it’s time to stop. Lopez Island is a great place to translate the visible world into the language of washes and strokes. You’ll see.
The Lopez Island workshop will be attended in person
Skagit Valley , Fir Island
4-day workshop
August 5–8, 2022
Tuition: $440
To painters, farm buildings are a guilty pleasure. So corny, but so much fun! What do you say we all put on our Groucho glasses and go to the Skagit Flats for some shameless indulgence? Fir Island and the Bow-Edison area are home to some world class barns, many with mountains or abrupt hills in the background. These buildings won’t be here forever. We can think of it as a historical endeavor.
The Methow Valley
4-day workshop
Fri–Mon, September 30–October 3, 2022
Tuition: $440
Why are some places easier to paint than most? In the Methow, it may be that the dramatic landscape is more readily seen as shape, color and value, while the human-made elements retreat in comparison. In any case, much of the painter’s work seems already done. The hard part is deciding which way to face. In four days, workshop participants discover new ways to refine and enliven their work by letting go of the optional information and accentuating the essential.
The Methow Valley workshop will be attended in person
