Urban Sketching Master Class

Madeline Island 978 Middle Road, La Pointe, WI

This is the inaugural Urban Sketching Master Class. The week will provide a full immersion workshop experience, on the finest Island campus-known for its extraordinary light and color, with unlimited sketching locations. Each day, you will learn sketching techniques with one of the country’s four top urban sketching instructors. You will work with them from...

$1095

Juicy Watercolors 2021: An intermediate level class

S O L D    O U T J uicy Watercolors 2021 is a comprehensive workshop that strengthens the technical foundations of watercolorists interested in pursuing wet-in-wet style of painting. Perfect for intermediate artists. Resilient beginners welcome. For those wishing to take my masterclass in 2022 but have not taken a thorough intermediate level workshop that emphasizes...

$375

What’s up with Trees?

ZOOM workshop

Online Workshop with Uma Kelkar | Saturday, December 4, 10am–12:15pm Pacific We often undervalue ubiquitous features like trees in our practice, but it's often these elements that hold our compositions together, make paintings feel real, and create mood and atmosphere. With artist and engineer Uma Kelkar, we'll start by painting individual trees in a fresh but realistic...

$50

2022 COMPOSE: A Masterclass

ZOOM workshop

I am excited to share my 2022 Masterclass called COMPOSE with you online and to thus make it accessible wherever you may be. Lesson Plan Testimonials Purpose Long format masterclass suited for people who wish to do deep focussed work towards making paintings emote what the artist feels. Despite this topic being ripe for extreme abstraction, we will...

$773

Urban Sketching Summer Retreat

Madeline Island 978 Middle Road, La Pointe, WI

The Urban Sketching Summer Retreat is among MISA’S most popular offerings. The week provides a full immersion workshop experience at one of America’s most scenic seashores, where Madeline Island’s stunning landscapes and shoreline meet the beautiful port town of Bayfield, with its historic architecture, marinas, ferry landings and traditional main street. Both locations are known for their...

$1295

Juicy Watercolors 2022: In-Person workshop, Minneapolis

Open Book 1011 S Washington Ave #101, Minneapolis, MN

Juicy Watercolors 2022 is a in-person comprehensive and intimate workshop led by fine artist Uma Kelkar that strengthens the technical foundations of watercolorists interested in pursuing wet-in-wet style of painting. Kelkar will emphasize painting landscapes and cityscapes in an impressionistic style. Perfect for intermediate artists. Resilient beginners welcome. 💢 Intimate class size is ~12 - allowing...

$345

Not your regular gouache class Half the fun in gouache is mixing colors. Club that fun with the power of opacity and ability to cover any color with any other color, gouache unshackles those who were constrained by pure watercolors. Lesson Plan Using landscapes as a mode to convey concepts, in this course, you will...

$285

EMERGE: an intermediate watercolor class

JOIN WAITLIST This online watercolor class focusses on painting scenes in dim/fading light. Class format is: 3 classes of 2 hours each over 3 Saturdays in January 2023. 9 am - 11 am, Saturday, Jan 7, 14, 21. Year: 2023 Curriculum Each Saturday will focus on one topic, Jan 7: Early morning, Jan 14: late...

$313

Juicy Watercolors 2023: Hosted by CWA

Esteemed watercolor society on the West Coast, California Watercolor Association (CWA - LINK) is hosting Studio Kelkar's Juicy Watercolors workshop on the weekend of March 11-12, 2023. This is an online workshop run and moderated by CWA. Juicy Watercolors 2023 is a comprehensive and intimate workshop led by fine artist Uma Kelkar that strengthens the technical foundations...

Stash of Palettes

I get asked about my palette very often. Here are the details along with cheaper, lighter options....

Mentoring Blueprint

Story of mentoring 5 artists (who I have not met before) remotely over 3 months. If it works, then this becomes the blueprint one replicate in future with lesser planning...

Packing List

This is a packing list that can fit travel of multiple weeks as long as washing every 7-9 days is possible. I used this list for Summer 2022 when I...

(Moderate) Fall Colors 2022

Day 0, Sept 29 Flying from San Francisco to Boston, bus to South Station, rental car to Bar Harbor, reached at 12:15am. Long day which began at 5 am. Thankfully,...

Blue hour and Sulphur Bulbs

The boys and I went to a local Mexican restaurant on a weekday and saw this view towards the gas station. The sky was more gloomy than my rendition. However,...

#30x30directwatercolor 2022

2022 is the fifth year of Direct Watercolor Challenge – a challenge that Marc Taro Holmes ideated and both he and I have conducted+participated in. Marc and I will co-host the #directwatercolor2022...

BOOK REVIEW 3: Dream Worlds

What was the main purpose of my purchase of this book? To revitalize my brain to think like a camera man while I composed pictures. The author’s aim is to...

Backlit flowers

Darkening by mixing thick pigments is making my nocturnes lose the luminance that watercolors have. Ultimately I am coming to the conclusion that using pigments that are inherently dull and...

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Goals for 2022

Some years, my goals repeat. I often repeat them because I have not figured out how to execute them. Follow-through is not hard for my personality type if a step-by-step...
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