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Watercolor Painting for Total Beginners

Spark your creativity in a beginner-friendly watercolor painting class, where you'll explore the beauty of flora, fauna, and flowers. Guided by a professional NYC artist, you'll build essential techniques like wet-on-wet, glazing, and color mixing, all while expressing your distinctive artistic voice. Relax, de-stress, and create meaningful, expressive paintings to be proud of in a supportive, fear-free environment.

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  • 18 and older
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  • Sun, Nov 15 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Sun, Nov 22 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Sun, Dec 06 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Sun, Dec 13 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Sun, Dec 20 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Sun, Jan 03 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Sun, Jan 10 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Notes No Class On: Dec 27, Nov 29
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  • Mon, Nov 16 at 7:30pm - 9:30pm
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  • Mon, Nov 30 at 7:30pm - 9:30pm
  • Mon, Dec 07 at 7:30pm - 9:30pm
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  • Mon, Dec 21 at 7:30pm - 9:30pm
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Class Description

Description

Watercolor painting instruction provides an ideal avenue for awakening your creative abilities and discovering authentic personal artistic expression through the medium of paint. For those new to watercolor, this course offers an encouraging educational experience through partnership with The Art Studio NY, recognized as New York City's leading art instruction provider. Drawing inspiration from botanical subjects, natural forms, and floral compositions, you will develop practical watercolor techniques enabling you to construct meaningful, expressive, and visually sophisticated painted works. This introductory watercolor course serves both absolute beginners and those with previous watercolor experience who desire to expand their abilities and knowledge. Through this supportive and judgment-free watercolor instruction, you will investigate the possibilities of watercolor painting across diverse plant and animal subjects, compositional approaches, and visual interpretations.

This encouraging, meditative, and enjoyable beginner course provides:

  • Personalized instruction tailored to your individual development by an accomplished artist and experienced educator from our New York City studio
  • Engagement with varied visual subjects, including still life arrangements, photographic references, and spontaneous gestural interpretations of botanical and natural subjects
  • Systematic development of a comprehensive technical foundation encompassing preliminary pencil work and color application, wet medium application methods, controlled dry techniques, varied wash approaches, splattering effects, dripping methods, layering techniques, pigment mixing, and supplementary advanced methods
  • Educational benefit from methodical instruction with visual demonstrations and guided lessons
  • Discovery of methods for integrating technical watercolor approaches with your individual artistic perspective and creative voice
  • Inclusion in our exclusive private online community for course participants internationally that facilitates mutual encouragement, visual inspiration, meaningful conversation, and constructive feedback throughout your ongoing learning
  • Completion of multiple watercolor paintings that represent your progress and development
  • Access to documented research indicating that painting instruction provides psychological advantages, including stress reduction, relaxation, memory improvement, and heightened satisfaction. Materials are provided separately; you will receive a comprehensive supply list.

This course is particularly suited for those with prior watercolor instruction through our studio; we ensure that each session introduces fresh challenges and techniques rather than repeating previous material, guaranteeing new learning for returning participants.

Art Course Supplies and Materials:

You will be responsible for obtaining materials. The required supplies include:

  • Watercolor paper sheets (your preferred dimensions, ideally 140 lb weight, though 90 lb is suitable)
  • Complete watercolor paint set (Pan format sets provide excellent starter options)
  • Mixing palette suitable for watercolor
  • Watercolor brush collection (including varied round and flat profiles)
  • Water container for brush rinsing
  • Painter's or art masking tape
  • Standard drawing pencil and eraser
  • Sakura Pigma Micron fine-line pen in black
  • Optional: Liquid frisket masking compound
  • Recommendation: Blick Art Materials offers quality supplies; you may also use other trusted art supply brands.

Refund Policy

Class tuition is neither refundable nor transferable. No refunds will be issued after registration and payment. In case of a Medically Certified illness, a credit will be issued after receipt of your physician’s documentation. The value of the credit will be for the balance of the remaining class sessions with an additional deduction of a $95 registration fee. Credit may be used up to 12 months.

If after your first class you are dissatisfied with the quality of your course, a written note must be submitted within 1 business day after your first class. After receiving your note, refund of class tuition will be reviewed by our staff. If a refund is granted, processing of refunds requires 8-10 weeks. A 5% nonrefundable processing fee will be applied.

Course Cancellations

Although course cancellation is quite rare, The school reserves the right to cancel classes or change instructor assignments and makes every effort to notify students in advance. If enrollment goals are not met, a course may be canceled up to 1 business day before the first scheduled class. In the event of cancellation, a refund or credit is granted. On occasion, a course start-date will be pushed back if enrollment goals are not met. In this instance, you will receive a credit for the price of the class that did not take place.

Please note that there will be NO exceptions to this under any circumstances.

Make-up Policy

Unfortunately, The school does not offer any makeups for classes missed. However, if the student wants to get the most from the course and the absence, they can tell the instructor when they will be absent and the instructor can provide some guidance on exercises to practice while away.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

Reviews of Classes at The Art Studio NY (679)

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This class: 4.0 out of 5 from 3 reviews

  • Watercolor Painting for Total Beginners

  • Watercolor Painting for Total Beginners

    This was an incredibly fun and helpful class. My previous teacher experiences learning watercolor made me not enjoy it as I didn’t understand the process correctly. This class was entirely different, with the instructor Anna Levy being engaging, funny, informative and allowed me to finally understand the art of watercolor while having a relaxing experience at the same time.
  • Watercolor Painting for Total Beginners

    It was okay, not worth the money.
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