Watercolor Classics: New England in Watercolor // Intermediate - Advanced // Monday

Develop your portfolio with Classic New England themes— such as barns, autumn leaves, and roiling surf spray. Learn composition and light mastery with depictions of birch trees, sailboats in sunsets, and historic shingle saltbox & village clapboard architecture. Play with perspective by painting ledges & dunes of our seashores. Master classic techniques such as salt, graduated washes, masking, and wax resist. Explore the difference between transparent & opaque watercolors and when to use each. Learn why the color wheel matters by rendering color complementaries & triads while mapping out your own paints on the wheel. Become more spontaneous with the wilder techniques of dry-brush, spattering, sponging, spritzing and pouring paints. Explore daring wash-off techniques, scraping out, lifting, scrubbing and sandpaper to eliminate mistakes. Click here for materials list.