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Unlock your artistic potential with a wide range of watercolor classes in NYC! Learn essential techniques, discover new styles, and create stunning works of art while gaining the confidence and skills to express yourself through this captivating medium.
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Summer Evenings in the Garden: Watercolor
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Enjoy the cool, quiet beauty of the evening garden while painting watercolors. This summer, we’ll focus on water features, including the lily pools, the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, and the new Shelby White and Leon Levy Water Garden. For the first class, watercolor supplies will be available, but if you have your own materials, please bring them.
Summer Blooms Watercolor Workshop
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This class focuses on painting seasonal flowers using both loose and controlled watercolor techniques. We emphasize initial massing in layered, transparent washes, with a gradual buildup of detail through color and tone. Particular qualities of various pigments are examined and incorporated to build up areas of transparency and opacity, with emphasis on composition and rhythm. You will learn to understand and organize values and handle...
Mixed Media Watercolor
Wagner College Lifelong Learning @ 1 Campus Rd, Staten Island, NY
Color theory, as well as color mixing techniques, will be taught in this class. You will learn the use of darks and lights, and what to look for, while learning different techniques in developing a painting. We will work from photos to create water color mixed media paintings using a variety of water colors, gouache, water color pencils, and permanent black ink. Merryl will work with students individually at their level; therefore, knowledge...
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Painting Watercolors: Nature, Land + the City
Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo @ 98 Water St, Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor Painting is a versatile medium that renders beautiful luminous compositions. Ideal for landscapes, cityscapes, and capturing nature like fauna, flowers and trees, and people with superb and unique quality. Watercolor paint is translucent, we don't mix it with white paint but with water, we work on dark tones first, etc. From week to week, we will demo a variety of practical techniques, once you have mastered this gorgeous expressive medium...
$80
Watercolor Pencil Techniques
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Join this class to study and practice the various techniques of dry application and methods of glazing the colored areas with water to create watercolor washes. Artist-quality watercolor pencils offer the controlled application possible with colored pencils along with the transparency and fluidity of watercolor. Advanced methods include wet-on-wet and dry-on-wet painting. Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. Here's the...
Capturing Fall Foliage in Watercolor
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Capturing the vibrancy of fall foliage is the primary goal of this class. We will focus on color and the elements of design to create interesting and successful compositions while retaining the transparency and immediacy of the medium. Students who have sketched and made notes outdoors may further develop their fall landscape in the classroom. We will also look at works by traditional and contemporary watercolorists for a broad perspective on the...
Winter Greens in Watercolor
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This workshop focuses on painting seasonal motifs such as holly and other cool-season greens and on discovering color in winter branches through a combination of loose and controlled watercolor techniques. Emphasis will be on massing in layered, transparent washes with a gradual buildup of detail through color and tone. The particular qualities of various pigments will be examined and incorporated to build up areas of transparency and opacity...
Watercolor Portrait Painting
Trestle Workshops @ 62 18th St, Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor is the perfect medium for painting portraiture and skin tones. Students will learn to see, mix, and apply a range of colors that convey light and shadow in any skin tone, under any light. We will learn how to draw the human head, mix skin tone accurately, convey detailed facial features and various expressions. Students will experiment with techniques such as wet on wet, wet on dry, dry on dry and overlaying washes to visually...
Watercolor: Understanding Color
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Whether you are an advanced artist, a beginner, or just curious, this class is for you. We will study color theories and put their ideas into practice, learning to mix and match colors to achieve harmonious schemes. We will study the colors present in plants and flowers with a view to enhancing an appreciation of nature's rich palette. Although we will work in watercolor, the lessons learned can be applied to other media: pastel, colored pencil,...
Modern Calligraphy with Floral Watercolors
Il Fiorista @ 17 W 26th St, New York, NY
We will learn how to make ink from flowers and plants, the creative process to make botanical illustrations and the basics to modern brush calligraphy.
$25
Summer Watercolor Painting in the Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Enjoy the beauty of Brooklyn Botanic Garden as you paint trees, flowers, and landscapes outdoors in watercolor. Explore watercolor techniques, values, and color through demonstrations, discussions, and individual instruction. Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. If you already have watercolor supplies, bring them. This is a suggested list: HB or 2H pencil White plastic eraser Plastic container with a wide lid for carrying...
Watercolor: Focusing on Color Saturation & Tonal Value
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Get the most out of your colors and color interpretation. Whether you prefer to slowly build your paintings by layers or use rich tonal values from the start, you'll develop knowledge and confidence in choosing colors for highlight, shadow, and mid-tones. We will begin practicing various techniques and color analysis in the classroom and experiment with them on location. Appropriate for all levels. Notes: Bring your own materials; ...
Nature Watercolor Critique
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Whether you paint landscapes, still lifes, or botanical renderings, this class will help you achieve greater satisfaction with your work. Bring your in-progress and/or finished watercolor paintings to the Garden for class collaboration in critique and correction to advance your practice.
Adult: Botanical Watercolor Painting
Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo @ 98 Water St, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary artists and illustrators have strived to showcase the beauty of flowers throughout history. In this class, explore nature’s power through the beautiful technique of Watercolor Painting-this medium lends itself beautifully to capturing line and form and the lucidity of natural flora. Learn how to achieve proportion and create dynamic commotion with light lucidity and color, capture realistic details in a series of exercises, starting...
$80
Back to Earth: Watercolor Painting Natural Fauna
Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo @ 98 Water St, Brooklyn, NY
Back to Earth: Watercolor Painting Natural Fauna, Plants + Animals In our troubled times, going back to earth for inspiration reminds us to love nature and wildlife. It enhances our respect and our relationship with the natural world and brings people together around an important environmental cause. Watercolor painting is an expressive form of painting and perfect for capturing our natural world and it’s effervescent wildlife and fauna. This...
$80
Luscious Flowers and Still Life: Watercolor Workshop
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This dynamic workshop will teach you to rapidly capture gesture, light, and form in watercolor. You will discover how to paint quickly and accurately to make color move and mingle as you create luminous petals and flowers. Individual attention and group critiques will leave you with a better understanding of the watercolor process.
$82
Watercolour workshop
Court Tree Collective @ 371 Court St, Brooklyn, NY
An exclusive watercolour workshop held by Justine Wong, the illustrator behind the “21 Days in Japan: An Illustrative Study of Japanese Cuisine” project. In this 2-hour session we will be learning to paint food from sketch to finish, and to explore the magic behind everyday documentation.
$65
Paint a Winter Wonderland Scene in Watercolors
Jade Scarlett Art @ 2910 Broadway, Queens, NY
Watercolor is the perfect medium to create gorgeous landscapes. In this class, you'll learn key watercolor techniques and how to use specialty brushes that will make crafting a beautiful Winter Wonderland landscape painting easy peasy! We'll cover the best materials for watercolor, watercolor painting techniques to create snow effects and the illusion of warm light shining from within a space, how to create believable trees covered in snow, and...
$50
Watercolor Paint Night
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Advanced signup required. Cost is for supplies included! We'll supply everything you need to paint along with a casual, beginner step-by-step tutorial that we'll watch on a big TV and/or iPads. If you prefer to go rogue and do your own painting go for it. No need to be a pro or have any previous experience at all. This is a fun gathering of people looking to meet other crafty folks without a big investmnet of time or money.
$7
Let's Paint Botanical Illustration in Watercolors
Jade Scarlett Art @ 990 Washington Ave, New York, NY
In this class, we'll be working with watercolors, watercolor pencils, and watercolor markers. Beginners and advanced students are welcome. We'll work on one or two botanical illustrations cards that can be used for all occasions. Even if you've never painted in watercolors before, this class is for you. Guidance will be provided to complete the projects and you'll leave with a card(s) that you'll be proud to give away or even frame it and give it...
$35
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