Today, the girls of the Writers’ Retreat visited the Clark Museum in Williamstown, MA. We were there to see the exhibit Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History. Our guest speaker was watercolorist Kathleen Tracy, who spoke to the girls about the play between light and dark in her art, and how it could relate to the play between light and dark their own writing. The girls explored the exhibit and wrote some poetry based on their impressions of the paintings.
After a sunny picnic lunch, Ms. Tracy demonstrated her watercolor techniques and invited each writer to make her own painting as well. Using different brushes and tools, the girls experimented with watering down a color or blotting it to create light, and layering and scraping paint together to create dark.
The day finished with afternoon tea in the sunshine and a visit to the museum gift shop. The girls all kept their paintings – to be proudly displayed in their dorm rooms that evening!
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| Watercolor instruction with artist Kathleen Tracy |
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