Moments in Time
Online Course + Workshop Replay
Discover how painting a simple garden chair can evoke a sense of stillness, reflection, and connection to the world around us. In this online course, you'll learn to capture a quiet and meaningful moment of resting in the garden.
This course is designed to help you loosen up your painting style while experimenting with light, shadow, and color blending. You'll gain confidence in your technique as you create a piece that tells a story and makes a timeless keepsake.
Bonus Painting: "Cool Shadows & Quiet Spaces"
As a special addition to the Garden Chair workshop, this bonus painting invites you to explore a more atmospheric and expressive approach. Set against a cool blue background, this piece emphasizes the power of shadows to create depth, emotion, and a sense of peaceful isolation.
You'll learn how to use loose brushwork to suggest rather than define—capturing light as it dances across surfaces and letting color flow intuitively. With soft, layered tones and relaxed detailing, this painting encourages freedom and experimentation while reinforcing key techniques in composition, contrast, and mood.
Whether you follow along or take it as inspiration for your own interpretation, this bonus painting offers a refreshing shift in tone and style—a quiet, cooling counterpoint to the warmth of the main project. It’s the perfect opportunity to push your creativity further and add a second meaningful piece to your collection.
Your instructor, Birgit O'Connor
Birgit O’Connor is a Master artist and a signature member of M-NWWS, (Northwest Watercolor Society) M-CWA, (California Watercolor Association) M-LWS (Louisiana Watercolor Society).
She is an award winning artist, judge, juror and author of the top-selling North Light books “ Watercolor in Motion”"Paint Watercolor Flowers" and “Watercolor Essentials” along with being included in three other titles. Known for her original paintings and inspirational teaching style.
Publications include the New York Times, SF Gate,Artist Magazine and Watercolor Artist Magazine INK in New Mexico, in the United States, Dobry Zank, (Poland) "L'Art de l'Aquarelle (France). Her memberships include Cambridge Who’s Who, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Women.
