12/10/2025
For all my water color art friends, this would be a great class!Ray Hendershot caught my eye many years ago and his paintings adorn my old farmhouse. His son picks up teaching the techniques where his father left off.
Still a few spots open!
It's that time again--time to register for my January 2026 "Texture Techniques for Winning Watercolors I" course via Zoom. If you've missed it in the past, I hope you'll join the fun! 6 weeks, one evening per week, starting Monday January 6 from 7:00 - 8:30pm Eastern time. PM or e-mail me at [email protected] with questions or to express interest.
Details can be found on my web site at www.bradleyhendershot.com; click on the Classes tab for a full description.
Here is a short synopsis of what we will be doing:
Watercolor and drybrush techniques with an emphasis on texture and mood will be the focus of this course. Join in on the fun as we explore beyond the "accepted rules" of traditional watercolor, employing drybrush; spattering and splattering; spritzing; scratching and scraping; blotting and patting; sponging; scrubbing out; the use of opaques; and a host of other techniques aimed at enhancing your paintings. Accept the challenge of taking your watercolors one step further, elevating a good painting to a great painting.
Participants will be encouraged to think outside of the box of traditional watercolor, exploring new insights, and expanding upon preconceived ideas of what a watercolor painting should be. Our focus will not be on developing Bradley, or Ray, Hendershot clones, but on learning new techniques and applying them to your own ideas and inspirations, and on gaining confidence in your newly found skills. Our goal is not necessarily to complete finished paintings, but to develop skills that the artist can take with him or her and apply to their own paintings.
My father Ray's book, Texture Techniques for Winning Watercolors, will be a part of this course, and I will certainly be sharing his processes. But I will be expanding on this with my own techniques as well. Additionally, we will look at some of the materials and techniques that Dad developed subsequent to the publication of the book. We will also be looking at some of Dad's, and my, original studies and paintings in order to demonstrate the end result of some of his texture techniques.
