Meet at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge at 9:30 am. We’ll paint 11:30 when we will regroup to share feedback on our work. (No rain date, so let’s hope for good weather.) The cemetery is open daily from 8 am to 7 pm. There are restrooms and parking. They don’t allow any food. Masks are […]
Natalia Carbullido does amazing poses with nice chiaroscuro using amazing lights and shadows. Come and join us and then share our work.
Painting in Series This Saturday, August 22nd, member Ching Lai will do a presentation on Painting in Series. Ching will discuss painting in series as a different kind of process of creating art. It is like on an adventure and you can explore and discover during this process. Normally, you would start with some point of reference […]
Watercolor Art Date Painting from a Live Model On Saturday we will have a live model. Mikki is a traveling model who has come often to Boston to pose for artists and photographers; she is based in her home studio in North Carolina. Ching Lai will be leading our session. Mikki will do some short poses […]
Now that the first day of summer has arrived, we're hoping to have some good weather for plein air painting! Today we'll watch a short video on Perspectives by Teoh Yi Chie and then go out and do some plein air painting and share our paintings at 4:00 pm. Before we paint we'll watch a short […]
Katie Cornog is going to show her technique for making greens. Either starting with a mix of blue and yellow or starting with tube green and modifying it. After she talks about what she does, she will open it up for us to talk about how we paint greens. Then we will go and paint […]
Watercolor Art Date Painting Water and Sky Please gather for an Art Date when Norris Strawbridge will talk about how he paints sky and water in his landscapes. Norris will demonstrate some techniques and talk about his painting process. He will show the steps he takes when painting a Boston scene. Then we will paint on […]
Join us on Saturdays for a variety of “Art Dates” with Lynn Holbein. In case you missed one of these popular live Saturday demos this spring, we plan to repeat the demos this upcoming fall/winter. Each Art Date focuses on learning a new subject (e.g. how to put people into paintings, self-portraiture, painting with gouache, […]
Please join Linda Rinearson on Saturday as she explores using gouache in our paintings. We’ll review some basics about how gouache is used by numerous artists and the striking results that can happen. Below are some samples of using gouache with watercolor. The first is by Nathan Fowkes and the second is by Andrew Wyatt. […]
Here are the dates in February and March:Here are the dates in February and March: Sunday, February 9, 1pm - 3:30pm, with model and with instruction by Adam Adkison Sunday, February 23, 1pm - 3:30pm, with model - no instruction Sunday, March 8, 1pm - 3:30pm, with model and with instruction by Daniel Panero […]
1st and 3rd Friday of the month 9:30am - noon we offer "Painting Together!" at the Newton Free Library (330 Homer St, Newton), Maker's Space room (behind the Teen section, 1st floor). Bring your own painting supplies and reference photos. Portrait and clothed figurative watercolor paintings with live models! Portraits on Fridays: October 11 + […]
The Newton Watercolor Society (NWS) was founded in 2008 to provide opportunities for artistic development for professional and amateur watercolor artists.