Our NWS member and first prize winner of our Annual Show "Nature in Watercolor" in the category "Best Wildlife" Michele Clamp will give a us a demo - we are excited! Michele will be demoing a painting of a wonderful basset hound. She will be concentrating on the values and edges to capture the […]
Nature and Landscape Drawing Host: Gitty Schacher
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 […]
Wednesday we will be present the video "Rural France in Watercolour" by Joseph Zbukvic. In this video Joseph focuses on rural paintings including houses in the Dordogne region of France, a local market scene, and a sunlit lily pond. In 2013 Mr Zbukvic presented one of our most popular workshops here in Newton. For more information about […]
Deadline for submission to the NWS Show "Nature in Watercolor" is this Saturday; Please follow this link for more information how to submit your paintings and application Download application HERE
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 […]
"Experimental Watercolour Workshop" by Ann Blockley. The 45-minute clip will show her demonstrating experimental techniques using watercolor, acrylic inks, and gouache creating interesting textures. We will watch her painting very loose a landscape of flowers and a creek through the forest -
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 […]
The Newton Watercolor Society (NWS) was founded in 2008 to provide opportunities for artistic development for professional and amateur watercolor artists.