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• Painting Complex Flowers in Watercolor with Evelyn Bernal - 2-Day Workshop (Intermediate-Advanced)

  • Start
    01 Dec 2023
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    02 Dec 2023
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    1:00 PM
  • Location
    Rhode Island Watercolor Society Classroom
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  Instructor: Evelyn Bernal
  Date and Time: Friday & Saturday, December 1st & 2nd, 10am -1pm each day
  Location: RIWS Classroom

  Workshop Description: 
  Learn to paint complex flowers from start to finish in this two-day workshop! In this workshop you will compose and paint roses, peonies, and other complex flowers using wet on wet techniques. Evelyn will demonstrate her whole process and help students along the way with their own paintings.

  Definition of wet on wet: Wet on wet painting is wet paint applied onto wet paint, so that the colors will spread into one another producing soft edges and blending. 

  SUPPLY LIST: Painting Complex Flowers in Watercolor with Evelyn Bernal Class Supply List.pdf

  
  

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• Flowers and Gardens in Pastel - 5-Week Class with Jeneane Lunn

  • Start
    18 Jan 2024
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    15 Feb 2024
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    12:30 PM
  • Location
    Rhode Island Watercolor Society - Lower Level Classroom
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  Flowers and Gardens in Pastel - 5-Week Class

  Location: RIWS Lower Level Classroom
  Instructor: Jeneane Lunn
  Date: Thursdays January 18th - February 15th
  Time: 10am-12:30pm

  Because of their speed and immediacy, pastels are a wonderful medium for painting flowers from life or photos. We will work from live bouquets and photos of gardens. Doing a combination of flowers indoors from life and landscapes of gardens plein air or from photos is the best way to become an expert flower painter. Working from life in the studio allows one the time to really study different kinds of flowers and learn how their stems, leaves and buds work together. This kind of knowledge is great when working in a garden with an abundance of flowers allowing the artist to use an informed shorthand to make marks that accurately describe the different kinds of plants and flowers.

  Materials List: Pastel Supply List 2023.pdf

  

  

  

  
  

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• Betsey MacDonald: It's Our Nature to Draw! - 5 Week Drawing class (All Levels Welcome!)

  • Start
    18 Jan 2024
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    1:00 PM
  • End
    15 Feb 2024
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    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Rhode Island Watercolor Society Classroom
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  It's Our Nature to Draw! A 5-Week Drawing Class
  All Levels Welcome! (Some art experience recommended)

  Instructor: Betsey MacDonald
  Date and Time: Thursdays, January 18th - February 15th, 1pm-4pm
  Location: RIWS Classroom

  Description:

  Drawing is the foundation of all the visual arts plus it’s a beautiful, expressive art form on its own. I believe that the best way to learn about something is to really see it by drawing it. Since it’s our nature to be curious about the natural forms around us, that’s what we’ll draw. We’ll draw bones, leaves, milkweed, garlics and anything I find that’s interesting. We’ll start with graphite for blind and modified contour drawings then move on to value studies for the first two sessions. Then we’ll switch to vine charcoal for our skulls by first setting a ground and then use a subtractive approach by drawing with an eraser. We’ll then complete our dramatic charcoal studies by focusing on the finer details. We’ll also use black ink and fine point sharpies with wash and watercolor. Through drawing, we’ll learn to really look at some of the incredibly designed life forms that share our world!

  Objectives:

  • Have fun learning to draw!
  • Improve observational skills through drawing from life 
  • Use line and value to render objects in light and shadow
  • Practice the art of contour line drawing and learn to “see”
  • Acquire skills for drawing with both graphite, charcoal and ink
  • Creatively render natural objects and learn how value can create form
  • Observe, critique and discuss student work
  • Gain a greater appreciation of the wonder all around us

  Materials student will need to provide:

  Pencils, 2B, 4B and 6B, erasers, rubber and kneaded and mixed media paper or heavy paper that can take abuse, for the first two classes. We’ll talk about what else to bring for the other classes but if you have it we’ll be using vine charcoal and charcoal sticks, tortillons (blending stomps), extra fine and fine sharpie, black India ink with a quill pen and a couple of watercolor brushes.

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• Learn “Procreate” Online - Cynthia DiDonato - 3 Week Online Class

  • Start
    17 Feb 2024
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    02 Mar 2024
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    12:30 PM
  • Location
    Rhode Island Watercolor Society - Online Zoom Meeting
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  Learn “Procreate” Online - Three Week Online Class

  Location: Online Zoom Meeting (you will receive a link to join the meeting via email before the workshop)
  Instructor: Cynthia DiDonato (View her Instagram HERE)
  Dates: Saturdays February 17th - Mar 2nd
  Time: 10am- 12:30pm

  Procreate is a digital app that opens up a world of possibilities for creativity for artists and non-artists alike. You can sketch and paint on a blank canvas, or you can import photos of your artwork to plan changes before you change your artwork. Additionally, you can import photography to create new layered digital artwork. All you need is an iPad and the professional app called Procreate, available on the App Store for a one time purchase $12.99

  This online Zoom class is for those who are new to Procreate as well as those with intermediate skills. We will start with the basics as well as provide a review for intermediate users. In subsequent classes we will dive into more intermediate skills. Handouts of instructions as well as recordings for a limited time will be provided.

  No previous experience with Procreate is required.

  The current version of Procreate is supported on the following iPad models:

  • iPad Pro 12.9-inch (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th generation)
  • iPad Pro 11-inch (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation)
  • iPad Pro 10.5-inch
  • iPad Pro 9.7-inch
  • iPad (5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th generation)
  • iPad mini (5th and 6th generation)
  • iPad mini 4
  • iPad Air (3rd, 4th and 5th generation)
  • iPad Air 2

  Materials students will need to provide:

  1. **IPad (Procreate only works on an iOS device.)
  2. Download “Procreate” from the App Store. This must be done before class. Cost is 12.99.
  3. Digital Photos you can access from your iPad photo gallery
  4. Use a stylus or Apple Pencil if you wish. You can also draw with your finger.
  5. You will need two devices. One to work in Procreate, and another to view Zoom.

  *** Using a laptop or desktop or other good sized device to view Zoom is best.

   

  
  

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• Evelyn Bernal: Wet on Wet Techniques in Watercolor- 6 week class (Intermediate-Advanced)

  • Start
    08 Mar 2024
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    12 Apr 2024
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    1:00 PM
  • Location
    Rhode Island Watercolor Society Classroom
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  Instructor: Evelyn Bernal
  Date and Time: Fridays, March 8th - April 12th, 10am -1pm
  Location: RIWS Classroom

  Class Description: 

  Definition: Wet on wet painting is wet paint applied onto wet paint, so that the colors will spread into one another producing soft edges and blending. 

  
  

  The purpose of this class is to teach a more free and loose style in watercolor. To allow water to express itself by using spraying. To drop pure pigments on wet paper and let them mix freely.

  SUPPLY LIST: Evelyn_Supply_List.pdf

  
  

  
  

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• Creating Your Own Watercolor Journal - One-Day Workshop with Katy Westcott

  • When
    06 Apr 2024
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    12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Rhode Island Watercolor Society - Lower Level Classroom
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  Creating Your Own Watercolor Journal - One-Day Workshop

  Location: RIWS Classroom (Lower Level of Gallery)
  Instructor: Katy Westcott
  Date: Saturday, April 6th
  Time: 12:30pm - 3pm

  Enhance your sketching practice with a personalized sketchbook of your own construction. This class will teach you how to create a bound sketchbook for everyday use, sewn with the French Link Stitch technique. Each participant will leave with a small sketchbook of their own. Suggested size is either 4.5′′ square or a 3 x 5ish” rectangle. Starting small is a great introduction to book making, since it’s straightforward, can be finished quickly, and uses the same skills needed to make larger books in the future.

  Materials List:  Materials List Watercolor Sketchbook.pdf

  About the Instructor: About Katy Westcott.pdf

  

  

  
  

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