Fall 2024

WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP | 50+ YRS Mindy Newman

With over 30 years of teaching experience, Mindy uses exercises to teach technique, color and composition. She mentors ongoing participation, this is not taught as a beginner class; however, beginners are welcome to join this relaxed instruction and participants may work on their own project. Participants register for each month. Supplies and materials are on your own. A supply list is included as an attachment with the emailed receipt. Participants may choose to get colored watercolor prints for a $5 material fee paid directly to the instructor. SEPTEMBER: STRUCTURES IN WATERCOLOR 9/3 - Fantasy Home: Prepare a sketch to align your NOVEMBER: WILDLIFE AND HOUSE PETS 11/12 - Cats: If you have a cat to pose that is great, but

intersections based on hunches and what inspires you by watching a demo. We break up the page with up and down lines to create the composition. Begin to place your building with your lines and then break up the paper with the laying of the washes. 9/10 - People and Places: Use a trip to one of your favorite cities and a photo of a street. This could be a famous place, or a back alley that delights your imagination. Refine your color scheme to fall, using warm neutrals. Focus on the white paper for light source. Learn to create people with dots and dashes on the tip of the brush. 9/17 - Ancient Architecture: Surround an organic shape, such as a cave for a troll, with spears, a fort and weapons. Or, it could be a mystical Tolkien castle with beautiful elves and floating orbs. Just flow with wet into wet mixes. 9/24 – Catch-up day: Bring in the unfinished pieces to work on today. 553115 A 1-3 pm Tu 9/3-9/24 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 105 $40 O 4 sessions OCTOBER: OUTSIDE SCENES IN WATERCOLOR 10/1 - The Falling Leaves: Create a composition in watercolor painting with a song in mind. It should remind of us of old album covers. You may Google “songs about autumn” to become inspired. 10/8 - Ohio Birds in Fall: Choose one of 20 Ohio birds to paint with focus on the use of opposite colors. Yellow vs. purple, blue vs. orange and red vs. green. Choose from prints on line, old calendars or photos taken by you or a friend. 10/15 - Ducks and Water Reflections: Using the farmlands, the forest or parks, create a composition that reflects the focus of reflecting water sources around ducks. They may be wet so stay out of their way when they start splashing. Prints provided but better to use your own. 10/22 - Farmers Market: Paint a farmers market stand, filled autumn’s harvest. Choose from Indian corn, apples in baskets, a stand with husked corn or fresh gourds. Learn to paint stick figures in gesture and as a crowd to excite this scene. 10/29 – Catch-up Day: Bring in the unfinished pieces to work on today. 553115 B 1-3 pm Tu 10/1-10/29 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 105 $50 O 5 sessions

otherwise we need some prints or photos you may have taken. Make them beautiful or make them funny. You learn watercolor techniques for creating fur and cats eyes. Prisma Ink tense Colored Pencils recommended making realistic watercolors. 11/19 - Dogs: Ask a friend for an autumn photo of their dog, or use your own. These make great gifts and I suggest watercolor pencils. Prisma Ink tense Colored Pencils recommended. 11/26 - Compositing Prints for Wildlife: Select friendly critters prints, such as a deer, bunny or bird. You research ideas for backgrounds vs. foregrounds from photos in magazines, on line, and from the instructor, to construct the composition. Imaginations work wonders too. 553115 C 1-3 pm Tu 11/12-11/26 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 105 $30 O 3 sessions DECEMBER: BEAUTIFUL DECEMBER 12/3 - Illustrate Winter Warmth: Paint someone or yourself, bundled up in blankets, sleeping in a bed or chair. Another idea is whipped cream hot cocoa, a glowing book and candle or a wood burning fireplace. Create a pine forest scene of various wildlife animals observing people. Just enjoy thinking about staying warm. 12/10 - Musical Messages: Design a musical instrument with various wintery messages. My examples are a bird whistling on mailbox, a caroler singing, a set of bells with holly or treble clef notes decorating a snow-covered pine branch. Of course, we have music to put you in the mood. 12/17 - Botanical Christmas: The poinsettia is most favored but also the Christmas cactus, Mistletoe, Holly, Canna Lily and Rosemary. Prints are provided. If you need a last-minute gift, we can make them into cards or bookmarks. You may use cut and folded to size watercolor papers for envelopes. Paper cutter is available. 553115 D 1-3 pm Tu 12/3-12/17 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 105 $30 O 3 sessions

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