The first of four critique sessions is on Sat, Feb 29 from 3:30pm - 5pm at the Auburndale Library, 375 Auburn St, Newton-Auburndale Bring one or two of your finished or unfinished watercolor paintings to receive feedback and suggestions for improvement. Coffee, tea and snacks will be offered. The leader of this first afternoon will […]
Eudes Correia September 10 - 13, 2019 4-day workshop This was a very successful workshop by any standards! Eudes Correia dazzled us with spot-on watercolor painting demos of portraits and figures caught in their daily life and painted with such an amazing repertoire of all the details in the faces and at the same time […]
T U R N E R E X H I B I Tin Mystic, Connecticut! Join Gitty on a daytrip to see the fabulous William Turner (1775 -1851) exhibit in Mystic, CT – the only place in the US where this special collection of 97 paintings will be exhibited. The exhibition spans the entirety of Turner’s […]
"Boston and Newton in Watercolor" at Newton City Hall, 2nd floor 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton Center will be showing until the end of February 2020.
Watercolor presentation by A N D R E W KU S M I N Saturday October 19, 2019 from 3:30pm - 5:30pm at the Auburndale Library, Auburn St, Newton-Auburndale We enjoyed a presentation by Andrew Kusmin, a well accomplished watercolorist and book author about his approach to realistic watercolor painting and why we paint – […]
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 + […]
What a fantastic workshop! We spend Day 2 and 3 in Boston in nice but very windy conditions and had great feedback with our selection process of zooming in on an interesting and manageable subject for our paintings. We sketched and painted, while attempting to integrate the techniques that Iain had us practiced on the […]
Cathe Gill taught a wonderful 3-day workshop this past November giving the participants an understanding of the different qualities of watercolor paints by separating them into the three basic colors categories of transparent, opaque and stained paints. It was fascinating to listen to her and observe her in the daily demos. Her very comfortable teaching […]
Thomas Schaller is a signature member of many art organizations including the AWS and has won many prizes world-wide. He is famous for his luminous and colorful paintings full of atmosphere and value contrasts.
Participants experimented with a variety of tools to paint, including brayers, eye-droppers, and sprayers, and created paintings without brushes. They explored a variety of removal techniques used in mono-printing, discovered the patterns created by applying textured materials such as sponges, Kleenex, lace, and corrugated cardboard to both dry an wet paint.
Our “Color Pouring and Blending” workshop with Lian Quan Zhen was impressive because of his techniques and teaching ability. He had us mask out the yellow pedals of a sun flower and then spray the paper adding the 3 primary colors, mixing with his finger or blowing the colors or using a brush. Then we […]
April 7+8, 2017 2-day workshop This Spring we enjoyed a really outstanding workshop with Wendy Artin here in Newton. It was a very interactive workshop, where short demos alternated with participant exercises throughout two days. Each day we honed our figure painting skills by focusing on the shaded body surfaces of each of the […]
The Newton Watercolor Society (NWS) was founded in 2008 to provide opportunities for artistic development for professional and amateur watercolor artists.