Say hi to Shari Blaukopf! Workshop 17: Bare Bones: Exploring Limited Palettes in Watercolour

Shari Blaukopf is a Montreal-based painter, graphic design teacher, illustrator and art blogger. She has a BFA from Concordia University with a specialization in graphic design, but her true love has always been watercolour painting. She began painting in her teens and is fortunate to have studied with some of the greats: Edgar A. Whitney, Frank Webb, Skip Laurence, Milford Zornes and Frederick Wong.  

Shari is a co-founder of Urban Sketchers Montreal and has given many watercolour workshops both on her own and through the Urban Sketchers Workshop Program in Montreal, Galway, New York, Portland, Barcelona, Singapore, Manchester, Chicago and Porto. Her book, “The Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with Color,” will be published by Quarry Books in spring 2019.  Shari grew up and still lives in Montreal, where she continues to discover neighbourhoods in her quest to find the best streets and back alleys to sketch.  

Shari is a signature member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour and a member of the Lakeshore Association of Artists.  You can find her online courses, Sketching Landscapes and Sketching the City, on Craftsy.com. Her watercolours are in corporate, government and private collections in Canada, the United States and in other countries.