🐈About the Workshop
🗓 March 21, 2026 (Saturday)
🕖 19:00 Jerusalem Time
⏳ Duration: ~3–3.5 hours (with a 15-minute break)
💻 Live on Zoom
📹 Recording available for lifetime access
✨ Capture the Spirit of Cats in Watercolor
Cats are mysterious, graceful, unpredictable creatures — full of character,
elegance, and sudden bursts of energy.
In this workshop we will explore how to capture that living presence on
paper.
Rather than focusing only on careful realism, we will work on the beautiful
balance between loose watercolor flow and expressive precision.
Through quick studies and a larger final painting, you will learn how to create
a cat that feels alive, spontaneous, and natural — a painting that looks
effortless, yet is built on thoughtful structure and observation.
Our goal is to reach that exciting place between abstraction and realism,
where watercolor remains fresh and expressive while the character of the cat
still shines through.
During the workshop we will create three cat paintings:
🐾 Two quick expressive watercolor studies
🐾 One larger final painting combining loose watercolor and refined details
🖌 Workshop Structure
✏ Part 1 — Understanding the Subject
Sketching, anatomy and composition
We begin by learning how to simplify the complex shapes of a cat.
This section will help you understand how to sketch cats confidently in many different poses, without feeling stuck by details.
We will explore:
- Quick simplified anatomy of a cat
- Breaking the body into simple shapes and volumes
- How to sketch cats in different poses
- Observing proportions and gesture
- Composition ideas for placing a cat on the page
This is a drawing and thinking section that builds the foundation for painting.
Materials:
✏ Pencil or charcoal + sketch paper
🎨 Part 2 — Warm-Up Studies
Loose watercolor sketches
Next we move into watercolor with two quick studies designed to free your hand and train your eye.
We will paint:
• One simple pose study
• One cat in motion / action pose
You will learn how to:
• Capture gesture and movement
• Simplify forms while painting
• Use watercolor quickly and confidently
• Suggest fur, movement, and personality with minimal strokes
These studies help you enter a looser, intuitive painting flow before we begin the final piece.
Recommended size:
• 23 × 30 cm (9 × 12”)
or
• 28 × 36 cm (11 × 14”)
🐈 Part 3 — Final Painting
Loose watercolor + expressive realism
For the final artwork we will paint a larger cat portrait where we combine:
- Loose watercolor washes on wet paper
- More precise work on the head and facial features
- Subtle details that bring personality to the animal
This combination creates a painting that feels alive, spontaneous and expressive, while still keeping the recognizable character of the cat.
You will learn how to balance:
• abstraction and realism
• flow and control
• softness and detail
Recommended size:
30 × 40 cm (12 × 16”)
🌿 Materials List
🎨 Paints
Use your usual color palette.
For your convenience here are colors that I use almost in all my paintings:
Ultramarine
Sepia
Quinacridone Sienna (Daniel Smith)
Nickel Azo Yellow
Pink Quinacridone or Quinacridone Coral
Opera Pink
Olive Green
Dark Olive Green or any Dark Green
Light Blue (with white pigment), I use one by Old Holland — Scheveningen
Blue Light
Additionally I will use in this specific workshop:
Paints with granulation:
Grey or Black — it could be Lunar Black by Daniel Smith
Earthy colors with granulation — brownish, ochre shades
(there are many options from brands like Daniel Smith, Schmincke, Rockwell
Canada, Rosa)
🖌 Brushes
• A Hake brush with wide soft hair for wetting the paper
• Your usual working brushes in several sizes — for both washes and details
• A liner brush with long thin hair
It can be a classic liner or Chinese calligraphy brushes of different sizes.
📜 Paper & Tools
• 100% cotton cold-press watercolor paper
• 11×14” or 9×12” paper for studies
• 12×16” (31×41 cm) for the final work
• Drawing paper for sketches
• Bowl of water
• Spray bottle with clean water
• Paper towels
• Sea sponge
• Soft pencil (2B–3B) or charcoal
• Eraser
🐾 Who This Workshop Is For
This workshop is perfect for:
- artists who want to paint animals more freely and expressively
- those who love cats and want to capture their character in watercolor
- anyone who wants to develop a looser painting style without losing
structure
Suitable for:
- beginner in watercolor artists who want to understand animal forms
- intermediate artists who want to make their paintings more lively and
spontaneous - experienced painters looking for fresh inspiration and playful studies
💻 Live Experience + Recording
The workshop takes place live on Zoom, which allows you to:
- paint together with me in real time
- ask questions during the session
- receive clarifications and tips as we work
📹 A recording will be available the next day for everyone who joins.
You will have lifetime access to the recording, so you can revisit the workshop anytime.
💬 Community & Feedback
After the workshop you are welcome to:
- share your paintings in our community spaces
- ask questions about your process
- receive feedback if you wish
Painting together with others often brings more motivation, inspiration, and joy to the creative process.
ENJOY PAINTING FLOWERS WITH AN ARTIST!
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