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Private Twin Room - Shared Bath Details
Twin beds with bath en suite, room shared with another student. Includes daily breakfast, lunch & 2 dinners. Check-in Sunday, Checkout Friday.
All rooms include the following amenities:
- Wi-Fi
- Hair Dryer
- Coffee Maker
- Mini Fridge
- Microwave
- Art by MISA Instructor
- Convient Parking
- Individually Controlled HVAC
Queen Bed Private Room Details
Queen bed, bath en suite – Limited availability. Includes daily breakfast, lunch & 2 dinners. Check-in Sunday, Checkout Friday.
All rooms include the following amenities:
- Wi-Fi
- Hair Dryer
- Coffee Maker
- Mini Fridge
- Microwave
- Art by MISA Instructor
- Convient Parking
- Individually Controlled HVAC
Private King Room Details
King bed, bath en suite – Limited availability. Check-in Sunday, Checkout Friday.
All rooms include the following amenities:
- Wi-Fi
- Hair Dryer
- Coffee Maker
- Mini Fridge
- Microwave
- Art by MISA Instructor
- Convient Parking
- Individually Controlled HVAC
Shared Twin Room (with another student) Details
Two twin beds, room shared with another student with bath en suite – includes daily breakfast, lunch & 2 dinners (price is per person). Check-in Sunday, Checkout Friday.
All rooms include the following amenities:
- Wi-Fi
- Hair Dryer
- Coffee Maker
- Mini Fridge
- Microwave
- Art by MISA Instructor
- Convient Parking
- Individually Controlled HVAC
Day Student Details
Includes daily lunch, onsite parking, 24/7 studio access, and MISA staff.
Meal Plan Details
We offer a gourmet meal plan with all of our on-campus lodging packages. Daily breakfast and lunch, and two on-campus dinners are served in our spacious Barn dining hall. For the other evening meals, enjoy the sights and sounds of Madeline Island at one of the Island restaurants overlooking Lake Superior sunsets.
Our delicious gourmet meals are prepared by master chef Laura DeRam. Her handcrafted meals are filled to the brim with local and organic ingredients. All meals are tailored to your dietary needs, vegetarian and gluten free options are always available.
Unlimited healthy snacks and beverages are always available 24/7 in our dining hall and workshop studios. We take great pride in providing fresh fruits from our famous Bayfield Orchards.
You’ll always find our chocolate chip cookie jars full morning, noon and night.
Genre: Plein Air Painting
Bold & Glow in Watercolour
Availability: Spaces Available
Instructor:
Workshop Description:
This workshop series is designed to help artists break through hesitation and discover the power of bold painting. Through gestural brushwork, strong composition and unapologetic color, participants will learn to trust their instincts and find their visual voice in watercolor.
Open to artists at all levels who want to level-up their technique and confidence. Beginners will discover essential watercolor basics; advanced painters will push into greater boldness and paint more like yourself.
What you'll learn
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Bold Brushwork. Let go of fear and embrace confident strokes that carry energy and clarity.
- Glow of Watercolor. Explore how to harness clean pigments, transparency and timing to capture luminosity in skies and water.
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Color with Courage. Experiment with limited palettes, explore warm vs. cool contrasts and push pigments to reveal vibrancy without muddiness.
- Techniques for Light. Dropping clean colour into wet washes, colour harmony & avoiding overwork.
Workshop Structure
Instead of treating watercolor as “one skill,” we break it into distinct, learnable parts. These micro-skills are taught through:
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Live demonstrations
- Guided sessions
- Personalised one-on-one feedback.
Key Topics Covered
1. Seeing & Design
- Big shapes, placement, horizon, focal point
- Simplifying complex scenes
- What to leave out
2. Value & Tone in Watercolour
- Organising the painting through light, mid, dark
- Learning tonal hierarchies
- Painting the strong colours of twilight without losing subtlety
3. Colour Harmony & Temperature
- Learn the foundations of the color wheel
- Explore warm vs. cool temperature relationships
- Discover harmonious color combinations
- Use limited palettes to create more colours
- Practice mixing neutrals for subtlety and softness
- Build your core “color vocabulary” for the rest of the retreat
4. Drawing & Simplification
- Proportion and perspective (light-touch)
- Contour and big-shape accuracy
- Using drawing as a guide, not a foundation.
5. Water Control
- Timing (wet, damp, dry)
- Types of washes: flat, graded, variegated
- Colour Consistency: tea / milk / cream / butter
6. Brushwork & Edges
- Calligraphic & expressive strokes
- Edge control: soft, lost, hard
7. Bringing Colour & Light Together
- Use warm–cool contrast to create radiance and depth
- Learn how grays add atmosphere and mood
- Blend colours to create luminous transitions
- Combine neutrals and saturated hues for balance
- Apply temperature shifts to evoke twilight & daylight
- Create paintings that GLOW, where colour and light work together, something more than just pigment on paper.
Workshop Schedule:
Sunday Night: Welcome Meet and Greet at 6pm
Monday – Friday: 9am – 4pm
*Subject to change*
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