Kathleen Conover
Watercolor Master Class Workshop
Monday December 8 – Wednesday December 11, 2025
9:30 am – 3:30 pm daily
$450 non-members
$400 ANA members
ANA Studio
300 N. 2nd Street
Rogers, AR 72756
You asked how I got the designation of “master artist”. I should be embarrassed to say it is “self-assigned”. I have the top signature status in the biggies: AWS-DF (Dolphin Fellow), NWS-M (Master artist, after being in 10 NWS international exhibitions), TWSA-MA (Master Artist, after being in10? TWSA exhibitions), ISEA-NF (Nautilus Fellow), Watercolor Honor Society (WHS), and more if I wanted to keep paying their annual dues. I also have my M.A. from NMU. I’ve been hired to teach in China as a “Master Artist” as well as invited as one of 40 master artists to open the first all watercolor museum exhibition in Shenzhen, China. I’ve jumped through enough of the hoops that when someone else calls me, or writes, Master Artist I don’t even cringe. I’ve learned to accept it graciously, very appreciatively, and smile.
Materials List
Welcome to my class. I am always excited to meet new artists and SHARE ART! I cover a lot of
information and I am sure you don’t want to miss a thing so, please, bring basic supplies you
regularly use and ALL the MUST-HAVE items below. The first day is the messiest and busiest so,
please, wear your old painting clothes, disposable gloves and bring all your materials, below.
MUST-HAVE
- Watercolor paper: 12 quarter-sheets, approx. 11”x15” each, of watercolor paper. I prefer Arches or Kilimanjaro 140# cold press. Paper from “blocks” is fine.
- Paints: watercolor in tube or liquid, (not dry pans), any brand, and acrylic paints if you normally use them.
- Acrylic products: 4ozs. Matte Medium (this is clear) AND 4ozs.white gesso (pourable)
- Brushes: a variety including one 2” wide brush
- Sketchbook and a few sheets of tracing paper
- A few old watercolor paintings to recycle
- Misc.: scissors, and white chalk, clear packaging tape, glue stick
- Containers: spray bottle, a large container for water, 6- wide mouth containers & lids (like deli or cottage cheese containers)
- Paper towels, Kleenex or napkins
- Applicators and textures: (be creative here): sponge, stamps, stencils, scrapers (old credit cards, etc.), bubble wrap…you get the idea
- 11×14” cut mat to make “L’s” or “crop bars” (or bring some you already have)
- Small stack of newspapers
OPTIONAL BUT WONDERFUL
- Reference materials: of imagery IF you want to include it in your paintings (total non-objective is great)
- A board (slightly larger than your paper)for supporting and weighting paper
- Sketches, thoughts for themes or concepts to explore
DON’T FORGET – your enthusiasm and a sense of adventure.
LEAVE AT HOME – preconceptions, self-doubt and fear.
Watch a 3 part You Tube video of my teaching on my website at the bottom of the “workshop” gallery.
“Change is in the Air” won the Silver Medal of Honor at AWS
“Dance of the Winter Bird” won Best of Show at the International Society of Experimental Art (ISEA)
“Shadows of a Milltown” won Best of Show at California Watercolor Assoc. (CWA)
“Searching” Merit Award at Rocky Mtn National Watercolor (RMNW)
“Hope in the City” won the High Winds Medal of Honor at AWS
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kathleen Conover
AWS-DF, NWS, ISEA-NF, WHS, TWSA-MA, Watermedia Artist, Workshop Instructor, Exhibition Judge
Master Artist, Kathleen exhibits her work, juries exhibitions, gives demonstrations, and teaches in-depth workshops. She has been juried into more than 100 exhibitions, receiving national and international recognition for the vision, innovative techniques, and fearless expression that give rise to her unique designs. Painting with openness to her subject matter, she is guided by intense observation and deep personal reflection. The result is rich symbolic layers of literal and figurative design.
Painting from an early age, Kathleen was influenced by teachers and artists in the fertile environment of Southern California’s prominent artists, museums and galleries as well as early international travels. She studied undergraduate fine arts at San Diego State University, finished her Bachelor of Art degree at the University of Washington in Seattle and earned her Master of Arts degree from Northern Michigan University. Continued study with American master watercolor artists over the next decade enriched her depth, understanding, skill, and personal style of painting.
Kathleen Conover’s current involvement in the growing international watercolor scene includes invitations to exhibit, judge, and demonstrate in China, Turkey, France, Belgium, Thailand, and Greece. She has been honored as one of 40 international master watercolorists invited to exhibit at the first watercolor-exclusive museum in Qingdao, China, the “Birthplace of Watercolor”. Global travel continues to influence her award winning paintings and inspires her work toward her lifetime pursuit, “… to be a better painter”.
Website: www.kathleenconover.com