Techniques

Camping at Pine Valley Reservoir with “Old Blue” my 1988 Toyota truck and Six Pac camper. Nellie and I took “Old Blue” up to beautiful Pine Valley last night for a little [...]

Kathy LaFave (left) and Roland Lee with a blank sheet before beginning his watercolor painting demonstration at LaFave Gallery in Springdale Utah The Zion Watchman 10 x 14 watercolor painting [...]

Roland Lee Drawing Class in St. George Utah Learning to see edges as value changes Eight accomplished artists joined together for my April class on Sketchbook drawing and journaling. It was a fun [...]

We enjoyed a pleasant painting workshop last week dealing with the nuances of painting water. I presented several of my favorite techniques for handling the tricky subject, including methods for [...]

We just concluded the second day of my February workshop. Our subject was painting Utah scenes in Winter and we enjoyed exploring the wonders of painting snow in watercolor. It was a real treat [...]

I have been painting steadily since our trip to Italy and Europe. Many of the paintings are sold but I have completed a few new small paintings. All of these are available.  If you want to [...]

You are invited to an art show and sale of new paintings from my recent trip to Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. I have been working on both small and large paintings which include the colorful [...]

Nellie and I in Germany below Castle Neuschwanstein We just returned from 18 days in Europe. The weather was wonderful and the scenery spectacular. I filled a sketchbook with drawings and [...]

My daughter’s friend Kirstin Anderson teaches weekly art classes to children in Cedar City, Utah. She brought some of the students to St. George today for a visit to my studio and gallery, [...]

Roland Lee painting Thor’s Hammer along the trail below the rim at Bryce Canyon National Park. It’s amazing how many people want to stop and look over your shoulder when you’re [...]

Artist Roland Lee making a sketch in his field book on a research trip of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Photo by Dr. Robert L. Eves What a week! Nellie and I enjoyed four days [...]

Michelle Manriquez opened her beautiful home and studio for a special fund-raising workshop for the Dixie Watercolor Society. Roland Lee agreed to teach the workshop and donate all fees back to [...]

The Court of the Patriarchs in Zion National Park provided ideal subject matter for a day of painting outdoors. Artist Alice Robinson enjoyed painting from her perch on a fallen log.  Our [...]

Outdoor painting workshop posing at the Ivins Reservoir. Back Row: Alice Robinson, Marsha Owen, Kelly McKelvey, Paulette Triplett, Mary Brown, Mark Rose. Front Row: Connie Madsen, Cindy McGregor, [...]

“Split Rock Splendor” 8 x 12 watercolor by Roland Lee was painted as a demonstration at Split Rock Gallery “Art of the National Parks” Show and book signing Art collector [...]

My April painting workshop featured a potpourri of my favorite tips and techniques for working in watercolor. The second day we drove up to Pioneer Park above St. George for a morning of painting [...]

Here is a group photo sent to me by Deena Millicam of our March drawing class in St. George. The photo shows our group on the red rocks above St. George where we studied the effects of light and [...]

Artist Roland Lee stands by his award-winning painting at the 2014 Sears Invitational Art Show at Dixie State University in Utah I submitted two paintings to the Sears Invitational Art Show at [...]

Drew uses his sketchbook to study the values and shapes of the red cliffs during a Roland Lee drawing class Because drawing is so fundamental to all the visual arts, I try to teach at least one [...]

Salt Lake City’s Best artists! Both my recent Salt Lake City workshops were themed to recent travels to the British Isles. We used my photographs as subjects, as I demonstrated how to [...]

This workshop explored the textures and colors of ancient crumbling walls in the British Isles. We studied how the light and shadow affects the way we see nature as we painted castles, cottages, [...]

Roland Lee demonstrates how to do a watercolor painting at Zion National park I was invited to do a watercolor painting demonstration for about 80 people during the Zion National Park Plein Air [...]

Roland will share tips and techniques for painting the cottages, castles, and gardens of the British Isles. Adare Manor in Ireland 8 x 12 watercolor Flaming Gorge Resort near Vernal, Utah will be [...]