Winter 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.

JANUARY: WILDLIFE IN WATERCOLOR 1/2 - Winter Wildlife: We use rabbits, red foxes and other furry wildlife to illustrate winter. Prints are available. 1/9 - Birds of Winter in Ohio: Working from branch to bird with the use of snow-laden pines, barren trees and rock. This can be a botanical vignette with a white background. 1/16 - Dark Skies on the Farm: Use your prints to boost your imagination and compose a barnyard in winter with fences and roofs laden with snow. Maybe some wooly sheep huddled and peered through an open door of the barn. 1/23 - Tropical Rain Forest: Create a composition of jungle plants, florals and trees, using prints or photos of somewhere you have visited. Colorful green mixes to dominate and yet definition of detail vs. soft edges. 1/30 - Catch-up Day: We review our work and do the final touches needed. Let us ask ourselves questions on the best ways to improve each painting. 551115 A 1-3 pm Tu 1/2-1/30 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 105 $50 O 5 sessions FEBRUARY: SEMI ABSTRACT WATERCOLOR 2/6 - Still Life: Using variety of fruit in a still life arrangement. Allow for their geometric shapes to emerge, to revive the cubist period of Cezanne and others. Pears may be connected circles and triangles, leaves that are hearts. Throw in a little realism to jazz it up. 2/13 - Isolation: Paint with gray, black and white vs isolated color, in a design of realism. A black and white patterned cat with a red ball of yarn. A human face in black and white with blue eyes. 2/20 - Paint a Word: Design your own letters. Draw some ideas on scratch paper and then transfer it to watercolor paper. Words like love, music and dance. Allow one word to fill the entire page, with overlapping letters. You can shift the sizes of each letter. 2/27 - Paint a Sea Creature: This could be mythological or from nature. Let us explore individual qualities. Watercolor allows you to dive into learning. Find your own style. 551115 B 1-3 pm Tu 2/6-2/27 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 105 $40 O 4 sessions

MARCH: SPRING FLOWERS 3/5 - Mechanical Flowers: Create an imaginary flower base on all straight edges, squares, triangles and All various angles and try to make them 3-D using color and light vs dark contrast. 3/12 - Wildflowers: Find an unusual composition by using the Mondrian Style of blocking, and overlap it with daisies, a single crocus or a daffodil. 3/19 - Orchids: We try to explore nature’s camouflage by selecting orchids that imitate other things. 3/26 - Park Bench: Paint an interesting park bench that sits by an amazing flowering tree, or has vines with flowers. Perhaps birds are gathered there. Improvise from the prints. 551115 C 1-3 pm Tu 3/5-3/26 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 105 $40 O 4 sessions

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