MIDDLETOWN—Pat Morgan recently retired to the Jersey coast from her longtime home in Newburgh, but returned to Orange County to show how she paints in watercolors. The artist gave a demonstration of her technique on March 6 at the SUNY Orange art gallery to a packed house.
Morgan calls her medium “transparent” watercolors. “There are different approaches to watercolor. If you use transparent paints and lots of water, you get more of a glow in your work.” She said she prefers using more water to avoid an opaque or flat effect.
“I was meant to do this,” stated Pat Morgan about working in the medium. Morgan did not take up painting until after her retirement. As soon as she experimented with brush, watercolors, and water, “it was love at first stroke,” she said.
She took drawing classes and tried watercolor. “I knew I wanted to try watercolor because I loved the way it looked, the softness,” she said. She has been taking classes and workshops in the medium ever since.
Morgan has become an avid watercolorist in depicting the beauty of ordinary moments through broad, loose strokes of color.
