Private Room Details
Private Room – room layout varies - includes 3 daily meals – convenient parking – Check-in Sunday, Check out Friday.
All rooms include the following amenities:
- Daily maid service
- Individually Controlled HVAC
- Wi-Fi
- Internet Radio
- Mini fridge
- Coffee maker
- Hair Dryer
- Iron & ironing board
- Convenient Parking
Shared Room Details
Two queen beds – shared with another student - room layout varies - includes 3 daily meals – convenient parking – Check-in Sunday, Check out Friday.
All rooms include the following amenities:
- Daily maid service
- Individually Controlled HVAC
- Wi-Fi
- Internet Radio
- Mini fridge
- Coffee maker
- Hair Dryer
- Iron & ironing board
- Convenient Parking
Meal Plan Details
Three exquisite meals are prepared daily by a master chef and served in the stately Ranch dining room with sweeping views of the Rincon Mountains. In the morning you can indulge in fruit and yogurt, crisp bacon with eggs, or the Ranch’s signature pancakes.
The gourmet buffet lunch with salads, seasonal vegetables and a daily variety of entrees will keep you energized for the rest of your workshop day.
In the evening, the southwest dinner cuisine will delight you and the Ranch barbeque at their Cottonwood Grove is always a highlight for the week.
During the week, several indoor and outdoor specialty dining events are held. These special events include the Cottonwood Grove Ranch Barbeque with live entertainment.
Genre: Urban Sketching
Vibrant Watercolors: Sketching Desert Hues I
Availability: Waitlist
Instructor:
Whenever I’m at Tanque Verde Ranch, I cannot stop drawing. I cover page after page in my sketchbook with the giant Saguaro cactus and its many spiky cousins. With horses in their corrals, wranglers in their iconic gear, plus sketches of boots, spurs and a great big anvil. I sketch the ol’ homestead on the hill, the lineup at the pancake breakfast, and much, much more.
That’s what I love best about travel sketching, and what I want to share with you. How the act of putting pencil and paint to paper enriches the total experience, and preserves it forever…until the next time.
So let’s meet at Tanque Verde ranch, where we’ll experience together the wild beauty of the desert and the surrounding mountain vistas, which make this place so unique. I’ve designed this workshop to give you not only confidence sketching desert scenes — but also the confidence to sketch wherever you happen to be. I’ll show you how to keep your watercolor sketches loose, fresh and vibrant. And I’ll share my techniques for capturing the beauty that surrounds us, with special emphasis on color and composition.
At the end of the week, my goal is that you’ll return home with a fat book bursting with fresh, colorful sketches — and memories.
Workshop Schedule:
Sunday Night: Welcome Reception at 6pm
Monday – Friday: 9am – 4pm
*Subject to change*
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