Gouache Painting Studio (In-Person)

Gouache Painting Studio (In-Person)

In-Person: Adult | This program is completed

20 Academy Street Arlington, MA 02476 United States

Main Classroom

All skill levels

4/3/2024-5/1/2024

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263.00 USD

Member Discount Available

In community over the course of 4 weeks, explore the medium of gouache, an opaque watercolor with rich, matte color.  Undertake your own gouache painting project(s) with support of the class, or work with prompts provided by the instructor to consider various painting techniques/concepts.  We’ll use panels that provide a stable support to play with paint in multiple layers, and representational imagery from observation or photographic resources to consider visual elements to express ideas and build technical painting skills. 

With Artist Vicki Paret

  • Important: Facilities Update for Spring 2024 Programs

    Due to facility improvement projects being conducted by the Town, ACA has been notified that our building’s elevator will be out of commission for 6 weeks this spring, beginning in mid-April. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have concerns about traveling the three flights of stairs to our space on the 3rd floor, please let us know via email (info@acarts.org) or phone: (781) 648-6220. 

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  • The material fee included in your tuition will cover paint for use in class and up to three panels.

    Students should bring the following:

    Resource images (photos) - printed or digital (at least ipad size helpful), or objects to paint from observation.
    (The instructor will provide imagery for prompts.)
    Metal, ceramic or plastic palette/plate/butcher tray, preferably white, with enough area to put out a palette of 14 colors, and an area to mix paint.
    Brushes: at least 3 different-sized round watercolor brushes – small, medium and large (i.e. synthetic sable, sizes 2, 4 or 5, and 8,10 or 12)
    #2 pencil or B to 2B drawing pencil, eraser, paper for thumbnail sketches
Paret, Vicki

Vicki is a painter and a potter with a M.A.T. from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, and ongoing education at the Harvard Ceramics Studio, Mudflat Pottery School, and Haystack Mountain School of Craft. She has been on the faculty at the Museum of Fine Arts, DeCordova Museum, and Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and until recently was Chair of the Art Department and teacher at Waring School in Beverly. See Vicki’s paintings at http://www.vickikocherparet.com/.