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 […]
Wednesday we have chosen a video by Don Andrews www.donandrewsstudio.com. In Granulation he uses luminous granular washes to come up with colors and effects that only watercolors can do. He walks us through the process of mixing colors on the page to create glowing granular washes. Then we'll watch him use the technique on a landscape and if there […]
Wednesday we have chosen a video about painting outdoors in pure watercolor in a loose and immediate way to capture the light and mood of a place. Yorkshire artist David Curtis shows how he quickly captures the atmosphere of a location in his video titled "Light & Mood in Watercolour". Here's a link to his […]
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 […]
Wednesday we have chosen a video about capturing a English landscape in all its complex moods. Yorkshire artist Robert Brindley shows how he mixes colors and uses masking fluid to achieve atmospheric landscapes. http://www.robertbrindley.com
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 […]
Please join us to watch Painting Outside the Lines by Linda Kemp. She is known for her negative painting and will give us a "positive approach to negative painting". Her website is at http://www.lindakemp.com/
Please join us to watch Watercolor Portraits of the South by Mary Whyte. She is an absolute master on capturing the character of her models. See more about Mary Whyte at her website http://marywhyte.com/
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 us to look at some of our gouache paintings and to then watch a video by Tony Couch. He'll do a complete demo showing us a great way to paint wood, snow and cast shadows. See more about Tony Couch at his website https://www.tonycouch.com
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. […]
Please join us to watch a video of Roberto Zangarelli followed by a short discussion of what we learned. Robert is scheduled to do a workshop for us this November. In the lesson he presents some watercolor techniques for capturing the atmosphere of a seascape. Should be fun!
The Newton Watercolor Society (NWS) was founded in 2008 to provide opportunities for artistic development for professional and amateur watercolor artists.