Watercolor Foundations (Evening Session)

Watercolor Foundations (Evening Session)

In-Person: Adult | This program is completed

20 Academy Street Arlington, MA 02476 United States

Main Classroom

For beginning to beginning intermediate students

1/22/2020-3/18/2020

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260.00 USD

Member Discount Available

8 Wednesdays, 7:00-9:30 pm

Demystify the watercolor process through a series of demonstrations and guided exercises in washes, layering, wet into wet, and color mixing. Learn the concepts and strategies used in traditional and contemporary watercolor that are used to create spontaneity and transparency. Working with natural subjects and also the landscape, you'll learn the various techniques used to portray light and shadow, volume, space and texture. Some drawing experience preferred.

  • Please see the suggested supplies list for this class below.
  • If you already own watercolor supplies, there is no need to go out and buy these but if you need paint, or want to supplement what you already have the materials below are what I recommend. Regarding paints: If you are on a tight budget you need only purchase the paints with a *. Keep in mind that without the other colors you'll have limited color mixing capability but you can get by.
  • Paints: Artist grade Winsor Newton Watercolors: 5ml or 14 ml tubes
  • Cadmium yellow deep
  • Cadmium Yellow Pale*
  • Scarlet Lake*
  • Permanent Rose*
  • Perylene Maroon
  • Winsor Blue (green shade)
  • Winsor Green (blue shade)*
  • Cobalt Blue
  • French Ultramarine Blue*
  • Burnt Sienna*
  • Sepia*
  • Indigo
  • Brushes: Bring what you have. I recommend : #8 and #18 nylon watercolor brush with point
  • Paper: 3 sheets of Arches watercolor paper in 140lb cold press, 22"x30", with one sheet torn into halves or quarters for first class
  • Palette: White china plate or large rectangular palette, John Pike or equivalent
  • Other: absorbent paper towels, #4h pencil, mars white plastic eraser, 2 water containers
Glick, Marjorie

Marjorie Glick (she/her/hers) is known for her large scale vivid realism watercolors that are inspired by New England’s places of antiquity and by the beauty found in nature. She has exhibited at several regional museums and galleries including the DeCordova Museum, Berkshire Art Museum, Brockton Art Museum, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, and the Forum Gallery in New York. Her work is in over 40 corporate and private collections including The Federal Reserve Bank, Fidelity Investments, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Tufts-New England Medical Center, all in Boston; Friends Hospital, in Philadelphia. She is the recipient of grants from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (Artist’s Resource Trust Grant) and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is represented by The Turtle Gallery in Deer Isle, Maine. She has served as Adjunct Faculty for The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and was a member of the faculty of the DeCordova Museum School, in Lincoln, MA from 1986-2012. She leads plein air workshops in Maine, France, and Tuscany. She holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and has studied independently with Wolf Kahn and George Nick.

To learn more about Marjorie, visit her website You can also read a feature on her work in American Watercolor Weekly at: https://americanwatercolor.net/creating-depth-in-large-scale-watercolor-paintings/