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Big Bloomy Large-Scale Watercolor Painting

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $445
  • Earn 4,450 reward points
  • 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
  • 22 hours over 4 sessions

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  • $445
  • 22 hours over 4 sessions
  • Room: S357, 3rd Fl, S Bldg
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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this watercolor class:

Explore using richly pigmented, saturated paint in expressive ways on a large scale.

Create paintings that emphasize the lush, bloomy quality of watercolor in depicting symbolic, surrealist or narrative content.

Materials List:

Watercolor Paints: Tubes – you will need very liquid paint. Artist grade (Winsor Newton, Old Holland, Graham, Schminke, Sennelier, Daniel Smith). Colors listed here are suggested only. You should have minimum one tube per hue.
  • Red: Alizarin crimson, Naphthol red
  • Pink: Opera, magenta
  • Blue: Ultramarine, Prussian, Cerulean
  • Yellow: Hansa yellow dark or medium (warm), Hansa yellow light or Winsor lemon (cool), New Gamboge (warm), Aureolin (cool) 
  • Green: hooker’s green, sap green, viridian, turquoise
  • Violet: Quinocradone Violet
  • Brown: Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber
  • Black: Lamp, Peach

Ink: Sennelier makes light-fast, highly pigmented ink. Purchase a few colors.

Watercolor Paper: 140 lb. Cold Press paper, Arches or Fabriano 
  • 5 large sheets 30 x 40 (approximate) or 10 sheets 22 x 30 
  • 1 roll of inexpensive white or brown paper 
  • 1 large sheet of foam core board to support your paper (optional)

Watercolor Palette: Plastic muffin-tin-type cupped pallets and/or a bunch of small yogurt containers. Aluminum pie tins also okay. Enough to mix a few colors.

Watercolor Brushes: Sable or sable/synthetic: # 10 or 12 round, #8 round; inexpensive 1⁄2“ flat, 2” or 3” flat 

Miscellaneous & Necessary: 
  • Containers for water – one large and one small (old yogurt is fine) 
  • Artist tape – 1” or larger
  • Maskoid or similar masking fluid
  • Sketchbook, two pencils and a kneaded eraser 
  • Towels or Kleenex
  • Sponge(s) for painting
  • Watercolor pencils (optional) sage green, pink or violet, raw sienna
Suggest looking online for large paper: Cheap Joes, Jerry’s Artarama, DickBlick
School Notes:  

Online programs:

An access link will be emailed to you after purchase.

Refund Policy

In the event that some or all of the meetings of the program cannot happen in person, programs will be held at the scheduled time in a virtual format via a video conferencing platform. The programs will continue through hands-on, at-home activities, lectures, presentations, and/or group discussions. No refunds will be issued should any portion of a course be held virtually.

We are not responsible for providing makeup classes or issuing refunds for programs missed as a result of illness, emergencies or other events beyond our control.

There are no refunds for outings, classes or workshops that meet fewer than three times per semester.

If you are unable to attend, you may contact [email protected] prior to the first date for a receipt that enables you to claim your contribution as a tax-deductible gift.

Unless otherwise noted in program description, the following schedule applies to programs which meet three times or more per semester:

  • To receive a 95% refund, written request must be received 14 business days prior to the first session.
  • To receive a 75% refund, written request must be received at least 2 business days prior to the first session.
  • To receive a 50% refund, written request must be received at least 2 business days prior to the second session.
  • After that, refunds cannot be granted.

All refund requests must be submitted in writing to [email protected]

Refunds are computed from the date written notice is received. To receive a refund, you must enclose the original of your confirmation letter.

Please allow three to four weeks for processing of your refund request.

Processing fees, membership fees, auditions fees and class or exercise cards are not refundable. No cash refunds.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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