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Jan/Feb 2006 A Civilized Wild River Art It is the play of light off water, a layering of sunbeams, the shimmer of leaves. Plein air paintings traditionally are infused with an energy that studio work rarely achieves. Winslow Homer knew it. "I prefer every time, " the 19th century artist wrote, "a picture composed and painted outdoors. " Kim Solga knows it too. Solga, artist and river guide, leads portions of Wilderness Watercolor Adventures along California's Klamath River. "When you get people on the river, away from their everyday lives, they discover all this creativity inside themselves that, often, they didn't even know they had." The itinerary is leisurely: mornings spent sketching the early light, the brushstroking of mist rising off the water, splashing through the small rapids of the Klamath as it winds through the Siskiyou Mountains. By mid-afternoon camp is set in the shade of a river grove where students, under the guidance of Solga, explore new ways of observing nature via sketching and painting with watercolors as the evening sun plays through its palette of colors on the canyon walls. The three-day Wilderness Watercolor Adventures are run by River Dancers. 800-926-5002 | www.riverdancers.com | $400 |
