Location: Big Raven Farm, 19315 T-49, Spring Grove, MN 55974 (a 3 hour drive from Madison, WI)
Dates: Thursday, October 22- Sunday, October 25

Spend the weekend exploring the beauty of watercolor in a relaxed, welcoming setting—no drawing skills required. This hands-on retreat guides you through foundational and specialty techniques including wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, layering, lifting, glazing, dry brush, splatter, masking fluid, salt textures, gradient washes, and more.

You’ll create a series of paintings—from miniature butterflies and white daisies to dreamy birch trees and a vibrant door scene with bougainvillea—each designed to build your skills and confidence while having fun with the process.

What’s Included

• Four days, three nights of optional art instruction, rest, and relaxation.

• 1 session to create a watercolor journal that you get to take with you at the end of the weekend, and 4 full length watercolor classes that focus on learning a variety of watercolor techniques.

• Incredible chef-prepared meals and home-baked desserts!

• Delightfully comfortable beds topped with luxurious memory foam mattresses and smooth, silky sheets.

• Optional yoga classes accommodating all levels of experience from “never-tried-this-before” to “can-tie-myself-into-a-pretzel-while-standing-on-my-head”!

• Optional birding trails for those so inclined. (Deer, turkeys, pheasants, grouse, foxes, raccoons, opossums, and turtles are all commonly spotted, and if you listen closely you’re likely to hear coyotes calling back and forth across the valley after sunset.)

• Inky black night skies and fantastic star gazing.

• Optional nighttime bonfire experience complete with s'mores, weather permitting!

• A variety of outdoor patios and porches for rest and relaxation. We have no mosquitoes! (An odd quirk of the Driftless region in which we’re located.)

Please visit Big Raven Farm’s Event Website below to find out more about this watercolor retreat and to register: