Museum Offering "Exploring Watercolor - The Next Step" Workshop

The Pickens County Museum of Art & History invites you to join Dale Cochran for his “Exploring Watercolor – The Next Step” workshop on Saturday, August 10, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Museum’s Liz Smith-Cox Educational Studio.

In this “next step” of his popular workshop “Exploring Watercolor”, Dale will demonstrate and guide you through the techniques of planning your compositions, mixing color and share his approach to using a layering technique. This workshop is a day of painting and critique with one-on-one instruction, demonstration and class discussion.

Returning students will benefit from Dale’s instruction approach of “meeting you where you are in your watercolor journey and taking the next step”. During the brown bag lunch hour, Dale will be doing a painting demonstration.

Pre-Registration for this workshop is required. The workshop is open to student ages 16 and up and is limited to a Minimum of 5 and Maximum of 10 students on a first come, first serve basis. Tuition is only $85.00 ($75 for museum members). Lunch not included, so bring your own bag lunch. Make checks payable to the Pickens County Museum or student may use their charge card by calling museum. Tuition is not refundable after August 8. Dale’s detailed supply list will be furnished after pre-registration. This class will fill quickly so register today by calling the museum at (864) 898-5963.

Inspired by his father who moonlighted as a sign painter, Dale began his 28-year art career as an illustrator, penning and sketching cartoons, caricatures and line drawings for newspapers and other mediums. Although he received formal art training at Anderson College and Winthrop University, it was only after taking a class at the Anderson Arts Center that he found his true artistic calling: watercolor.

“With watercolor, experience is fluid ... not just in the brush strokes themselves, but in the interpretation of feeling and experience, of emotion and connection,” says Dale.

Outside of painting commissioned portraits and exhibiting at galleries across the Southeast, Dale works as a creative director at Clemson University.

This class is part of the museum’s continuing effort to provide a variety of entertaining and educational programming for the community. The Pickens County Museum of Art & History is funded in part by Pickens County, members and friends of the museum and a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Located at the corner of Hwy. 178 at 307 Johnson Street in Pickens SC, the museum is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free but donations are welcomed. For more information or to register for this class call the museum at (864) 898-5963.

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