Instructor: Mario Andres Robinson
Using the Assisi cityscape and Umbrian landscape as inspiration, this workshop will utilize a number of steps in the process of creating your watercolors. Working both in the studio and on site we’ll first focus—through observation, drawing, and thumbnail studies—to create a monochromatic block-in to identify the values and composition of your painting. Once there we then will use color mixing, paint application, and brushwork to capture the light, shadow, and various textures that exist in the landscape and architecture of Assisi and Umbria. The ultimate goal is to create luminous watercolors that are aesthetically pleasing without being overworked.
Mario Andres Robinson was born in Altus, Oklahoma and at the age of 12 moved with his family to New Jersey. Robinson studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where early on he was influenced by Degas, Rembrandt, and Vermeer among others. His work fits squarely within the tradition of American painting with a close affinity to the masters of the realist tradition—Eakins, Homer, Hopper, and Andrew Wyeth. Robinson's work has been featured in The Artist's Magazine, The Pastel Journal, Watercolor Magic, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur and on the cover of American Artist. In the February, 2006 issue of The Artist's Magazine, Mario was selected as one of the top 20 realist artists under the age of 40. He is the author of "Lessons in Realistic Watercolor," a comprehensive guide of the artist's watercolor techniques (Monacelli Press). In 2014, Robinson was chosen to be a Brand Ambassador for Winsor and Newton art materials.
