Philadelphia Water Color Society

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Upcoming events

    • July 14, 2025
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Marsh Creek State Park, 675 Park Rd. Downingtown, PA 19335
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    Join us for plein air painting at Marsh Creek State Park. Fellow member Yvonne Mucci will give a demo. Park at the boat rental. We will meet you there and Yvonne will direct you to the spot for the demo. 

    view of the lake at Marsh Creek State Park with a small sail boat on the shore.

    Photo by ParadeGround (CC By-SA 3.0)

    Plan to display your work with the group photo at the end of the session and bring a bag lunch or patronize the snack bar. 

    Rain date to be determined closer to the date.

    Find the boat rental at Marsh Creek State Park on Google Maps.

    This is a joint event with plein air group of the Delaware Valley Art League (DVAL). You do not have to be a member of either PWCS or DVAL to register.

    • July 27, 2025
    • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
    • online via Zoom
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    Join us for an online demonstration with Dorrie Rifkin. She'll take us through her process for creating a painting. Starting from a photograph, she turns to her sketchbook to figure out color, design and whether it's even worth painting. From there she makes a tight and detailed drawing that gives her the freedom to not worry about missing the image she's after.

    watercolor painting in progress showing a detailed drawing, palette and preliminary sketch

    An in-progress photo of Dorrie Rifkin's painting Hey Barber

    About Dorrie Rifkin

    Dorrie Rifkin is the Juror of Selection for our 125th International Exhibition of Works on Paper. Her paintings have been accepted in over 100 international and national juried shows and are exhibited in private collections worldwide. She was featured in the article “Ones to Watch,” in Watercolor Artist (December 2010), one of her paintings was chosen for the cover of Watercolor magazine, and her work was selected for Splash 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, and 20. She is a signature member of the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, the Northeast, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Garden State Watercolor Societies and is a Master Signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society.

    Her website is dorrierifkin.com.

    New York street scene with a barber shop

    Hey Barber by Dorrie Rifkin

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