These classes use a Zoom meeting format, which allows you real-time contact with the instructor and other students. Requires a computer (PC or Mac), iPad or tablet, or a smartphone equipped with camera and audio.

The Art of Watercolor is divided into 4-week sessios/topics. You can choose a single 4-week session that explore what you are most interested in topic or you might want to try several sets of session with related content. You could even sign up for the whole course!  Below is a list of the four week session topics.

ALL EVENING SESSIONS MEET: Thursdays at 6:30 to 9:00 pm

Class Descriptions

AoWC, Intermediate Techniques, pt. 3 (November)

Get More Out of Our Sketches, Studies, and Photographs

We love the improvisational potential in watercolor and we won’t forget that in this short class. We can find a lot more info in our photos and quick sketches. Sketches, studies, and photographs can help us find our own solutions to improving our painting’s accuracy and design issues all while gaining more freshness and beauty in our watercolors!  So let’s learn how to think a bit more like jazz masters or improv poets and learn how to better use these powerful visual resources!

MEETS: on Thursdays at 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

BEGINS: 11/11/2021 (We will skip Nov 25); CLASS ENDS: 12/09/2020

AoWC, Advanced Concepts & Projects #1 (January)

Exploring Texture, Expanded Masking, & Altered Surfaces

Watercolor on paper is, physically, an extremely flat medium and therefore confronts us with a challenge wherever we want to create the appearance of texture, form, and space. So, embracing that we will employ some strategies to successfully create visual depictions of 3-D depth, space, form, and texture. We will also explore altering the physical surface we paint on for greater textural effect.

MEETS: on Thursdays at 6:30 to 9:00 pm

BEGINS: 01/06/2022; ENDS: 01/27/2022

AoWC, Advanced Concepts & Projects #2 (February)

Creating Excitement with Formats & Cropping  

Most artists get stuck using the only the most standard paper sizes and formats for their work. We will attempt to create more exciting visual images by exploring new formats and shapes as well as embracing the creative power of image cropping.

MEETS: on Thursdays at 6:30 to 9:00 pm

BEGINS: 02/03/2022; ENDS: 02/24/202 (or 03/03/2022 if we have to skip a week)

AoWC, Advanced Concepts & Projects #3 (March)

Experiments with Additional Watercolor Media 

As we become more skilled and proficient watercolor, we might want to elevate or even spice up our process a bit. We will explore adding to and/or replacing some of our techniques/materials with ones from other watercolor traditions and by experimenting with new, modern aqueous painting materials that we can add to our tool kit!

MEETS: on Thursdays at 6:30 to 9:00 pm

BEGINS: 03/10/2022; ENDS: 03/31/2022

TUITION

per 4-week session: $169 ($145 for seniors)

all three 4-week sessions: $450 ($400 for seniors)

Once you have completed your registration, I will send you a suggested supplies and materials list.