If you are looking for something to do during the winter months ahead and you’ve always wanted to learn to paint with watercolors, then the Marion Art Center located at 80 Pleasant Street in Marion, MA 02738 has just the courses for you! If you are a beginner and have never even picked up a brush, then the Watercolor Painting for Adult Beginners is a great place to start. If you are a little more advanced and want to explore the medium further, then the advanced course for adult painters will help you more fully develop your skills. For more information about registering for these classes, please visit the Marion Art Center website at www.marionartcenter.org. Click on the “Classes” tab and follow the links to the registration forms, or call 508-748-1266. The Marion Art Center is a not-for-profit organization that has been dedicated to the promotion of the visual and performing arts since 1957.
Watercolor Painting for Adult Beginners – Part II
Thursdays, 10:00 am to noon
January 14 to March 10 (8 weeks)
Note: No class February 11
Tuition: $180 members / $195 non-members (supplies not included)
Instructor: Patricia White
Note: This course requires a minimum of 5 students to run.
This course is designed for people who would like to try watercolor painting but do not know where to start. Students will explore different techniques in a nurturing environment while working on the landscape, still life, figurative, and/or imaginative painting. Participants should bring to the first class whatever supplies they have on hand. Participation in Watercolor Part I is not a prerequisite to enroll in this class. All beginners are welcome.
About the Instructor: Patricia White is a painter and a Gallery Instructor Associate at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is past President of the Marion Art Center and the current President of the Bourne-Wareham Art Association. She studied Illustration and Realist Painting at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and has shown her work in numerous exhibitions in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, including the Marion Art Center, The Jonathan Bourne Library, The Wareham Library, Don’s Art Shop of Warren, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ArtWorks of New Bedford, the Annual BWAA Show and Sale, and the Gift Shop of The Cape Cod Museum of Art.
Watercolor Painting for Advanced Watercolor Painters (Adults)
Fridays, 10:00 am – noon
January 8 to February 26 (8 weeks)
Instructor: Jay Ryan
Tuition: $180 members / $195 non-members (supplies not included)
Note: This course requires a minimum of 5 students to run.
This course is a perfect “next step” for those who would like to explore watercolor painting beyond a basic understanding of color and brush strokes. Using the brilliant nature of light (and dark), we’ll “push” the medium, adding other water media, brushes, and paper surfaces, and experiment with palette color mixing to capture magic and luminosity. In each class, we will start a new painting together using landscape, still life, the figure, abstract or imaginative thought, or narrative ideas as subjects. Each class will also provide a brief and supportive group “critique.” Students will leave with expanded knowledge of technique and traditional and contemporary use of watercolor.
About the Instructor: Jay Ryan is a Fairhaven painter and a Gallery Instructor at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A former K-12 public school art teacher and administrator, Jay has studied at Massachusetts College of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Framingham State and Lesley Universities. His work has been locally shown at the Judith Klein Gallery, ArtWorks! and Gallery X in New Bedford, and the Marion Art Center.