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Unlock your artistic potential with a wide range of watercolor classes in NYC! Learn essential techniques, discover new styles, and create stunning works of art while gaining the confidence and skills to express yourself through this captivating medium.

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Creative Techniques in Watercolor Painting

Bronxville Adult School @ 177 Pondfield Rd, Bronxville, NY

Create a landscape or still life watercolor painting in each educational and enjoyable class session, using a variety of creative watercolor techniques, including wet-on-wet, dry-to-wet and the dry brush method, just to name a few. A variety of brushes will be used to expand on these techniques and the occasional use of watercolor pencils will create quick and surprising detail to your painting. Each session will introduce at least one of these...

(20) All levels 18 and older
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$175

6 sessions

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Virtual Winter Wonderland Landscape in Watercolors

Jade Scarlett @ Virtual Learning via Zoom

Watercolor is the perfect medium to create gorgeous landscapes. In this class, you'll create a bucolic winter wonderland scene with trees, snow, a charming cottage, and a lovely winter sky. I'll walk you through every step, beginning with the essential techniques needed to complete a landscape and how to use household items and regular house paint brushes to create special effects in your landscape that will make painting it a breeze. This class...

(686) All levels 16 and older
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Watercolor

ArtWorks at West Side YMCA @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY

This class is for playing with watercolor techniques with an emphasis on finding and developing your own personal style. Frequent subject materials include still life set-ups and photos for inspiration. Beginners and Intermediate levels welcome. 

(113) All levels 18 and older
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$350

8 sessions

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Virtual Watercolor Landscapes - Paint a Rose Garden

Jade Scarlett @ Virtual Learning via Zoom

Virtual Watercolor Landscapes the Easy Way - Paint a Rose Garden and Cottage Watercolor is the perfect medium to create gorgeous landscapes. In this class, you'll create a lovely cottage with a beautiful rose garden.  I'll walk you through every step, beginning with the essential techniques needed to complete a landscape and how to use household items and regular house paint brushes to create special effects in your landscape that will...

(686) Beginner 16 and older
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Virtual Watercolor Central Park the Easy Way

Jade Scarlett @ Virtual Learning via Zoom

This is the next class in our Watercolor Workshop Series. Though it can be taken on its own, we recommend you first take Virtual Floral Watercolor for Beginners. Watercolor is the perfect medium to create gorgeous landscapes. In this class, you'll create a lovely autumn afternoon in iconic Central Park.  I'll walk you through every step, beginning with the essential techniques needed to complete a landscape and how to use household...

(686) Beginner 16 and older
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Virtual Watercolor Landscapes: Shakespeare's Cottage

Jade Scarlett @ Virtual Learning via Zoom

Watercolor is the perfect medium to create gorgeous landscapes. In this intermediate class, we’ll paint Anne Hathaway’s + Shakespeare’s cottage in Stratford-Upon-Avon, complete with brickwork, weathered walls, thatched roof, white picket fence, and a lovely garden. I'll walk you through every step, beginning with the essential techniques needed to complete a landscape and how to use household items and regular house paint brushes to create...

(686) Intermediate 16 and older
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Watercolor Landscapes: Bathed in Warm Light

Jade Scarlett @ Virtual Learning via Zoom

Watercolor is the perfect medium to create gorgeous landscapes. In this intermediate class, we’ll create the illusion of warm sunlight bathing a lovely scene in the countryside,  complete with water reflections, distant trees, and flowers. I'll walk you through every step, beginning with the essential techniques needed to complete a landscape and how to use household items and regular house paint brushes to create special effects in your...

(686) Intermediate 16 and older
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Watercolor for Today

New York School of the Arts

While we spend much of our time at home these days this course is designed to take advantage of that. We will explore three main themes: still life, tablescape, and roomscape. Still life is where we will begin with focus on a few items. Tablescape uses the ordinary things we find or set on the table for meals, etc.  Roomscape or interior still life will use the views of the home and perhaps what’s seen through its windows. Composition will...

(74) All levels 18 and older
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Watercolor Intensive

New York School of the Arts

This focused class will allow students to delve into both formal and experimental approaches to the medium. We will explore making powerful images while appreciating the flexibility and immediacy of watercolor. The class will meet four Fridays for 6 hours each, and the instructor will be present during that time. Students will be given assignments which will be reviewed during the next session. Both individual attention and group critiques will...

(74) All levels 18 and older
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Virtual Watercolor Poppy Field Landscape the Easy Way

Jade Scarlett @ Virtual Learning via Zoom

This is the next class in our Watercolor Workshop Series. Though it can be taken on its own, we recommend you first take Virtual Floral Watercolor for Beginners. Watercolor is the perfect medium to create gorgeous landscapes. In this class, you'll create a gorgeous Poppy Field in Tuscany, full of luscious greens and vibrant red poppies.  I'll walk you through every step, beginning with the essential techniques needed to complete...

(686) Beginner 16 and older
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Exploring Watercolor Pigments

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Like alchemists, students can experiment with ways to enhance watercolor pigment. In the morning, students will experiment with materials such as ox gall, sand, alcohol, silver spoons, egg yolks, and Chinese white. In the afternoon, students will use the experimental materials to create examples of their own. Are materials provided and included in cost of the class?: No. If you have 4-5 watercolor brushes that are old or cheap, please bring...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Creating Natural Pigments: Watercolor Workshop

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

In this watercolor workshop, we examine pigments gleaned from very familiar plants: marigolds, zinnias, and even the weedy but beautiful inkberry. We will take a close look at dye plants in the Garden and record our impressions and observations in sketchbooks.  We willl also experiment with the simplest of dye and color extractions to see what happens as we dye linen and cotton watercolor papers. Everyone will create, in an authentic mode,...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Watercolor

West Side YMCA - Community Arts

This in-person class is for playing with watercolor techniques with an emphasis on finding and developing your own personal style. Frequent subject materials include: still life set-ups and photos, but students are also encouraged to use personal projects. 

(30) Beginner 18 and older
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Painting Watercolors: Nature, Land + the City

Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo @ 98 Water St, Brooklyn, NY

Watercolor Painting is a versatile medium that renders beautiful luminous compositions. Ideal for landscapes, cityscapes, and capturing nature like fauna, flowers and trees, and people with superb and unique quality. Watercolor paint is translucent, we don't mix it with white paint but with water, we work on dark tones first, etc. From week to week, we will demo a variety of practical techniques, once you have mastered this gorgeous expressive medium...

(179) All levels 21 and older
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Special Effects with Watercolor

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Take inspiration from fall foliage, fruit, and flowers while developing your skills and personal style. Emphasis is on drawing, composition, and understanding color.  Traditional watercolor techniques such as dry brush and glazing are demonstrated as well as some experimental approaches in this class. Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. If you already own watercolors bring what you have, but make sure they are professional...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Revealing Your Creative Self Through Watercolor

New York Open Center

The beautiful message of this contemplative yet powerful day-long workshop is that you are creative and you can apply that creative power to every area of your life. Whether you are a beginning painter, an accomplished artist or a non-painter, today you will learn how to see and create a dialogue with your muse through the organic process of watercolor. Drawing from her six best-selling books, Jeanne will first gently lead us through the craft of...

(299) All levels 18 and older
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Tim Saternow: 2 Day Workshop

Watercolor for Absolute Beginners

Alternative Techniques in Watercolor. Open to Intermediate level students only(that is, you must have taken the Absolute Beginner 6-week class, OR have other prior experience using  watercolor).

(27) Intermediate 16 and older
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Painting Outside the Lines: Watercolor and Intuition

New York Open Center

Today, Melissa Harris, who has been helping others sharpen their creative and intuitive processes for decades, will draw from her new book, 99 Keys to a Creative Life, and combine her talent as an intuitive with her extensive background in painting to help us each access and refine our own special style of creative expression. She will also share tips on technique and style, guide us in exercises that expand our ability to use watercolor, and work...

(299) All levels 18 and older
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Holiday Cards in Watercolor

Watercolor for Absolute Beginners

Ever wanted to create your own watercolor cards for the holidays? You can paint each one individually, or create one image (any size) and use it to have cards made with an online printing service. It's easier than you think. This workshop will demo at least 5 holiday designs and variations, mostly non-denominational (candles, pine trees, holly, winter forest, ornament, wreath, etc). You'll learn how to use table salt to create snow effects as well....

(27) Beginner 16 and older
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Trees and Foliage Workshop

Watercolor for Absolute Beginners

Various techniques for impressionist tress, foliage, and grass will be covered in this workshop. The optional Mini-Kit ($26) includes all the supplies you will need in this workshop: 6 brushes 6 sheets top-quality paper 7 colors of quality paint Plastic mini-palette If you prefer to work on larger paper (11x15" quarter-sheets or 15x22" half-sheets), you can purchase these during the workshop for $2 and $4 each. You can also borrow brushes,...

(27) All levels 16 and older
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