Paint from Your Experiences and Snapshots
Adult Class | Registration opens 5/14/2025 8:00 PM EDT
Watercolor is especially good at documenting bright summer, vacation, and tropical surroundings! It starts in an orderly process, and develops with your own flourishes. Watch, follow and learn new methods. Color is transparent and can be layered, calligraphic brush work and use of white space add accents for visuals you notice.
- Bring photos. Watercolor paper pad of ‘cold press’ (bumpy) paper. 3 watercolor brushes (a wash brush, an inexpensive Japanese watercolor brush, a WC “round” brush about #9. A metal/plastic watercolor box to start - the children’s ones with fluorescent colors are fun) OR/AND small tubes of Lemon Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Rose/Magenta. To mix colors: a recycled plastic food tray or plastic egg carton or white or glass dinner plate. Further supplies will be advised if needed.
Lexa McCrady
LEXA MCCRADY AXON has taught painting, drawing, and printmaking since 1987 and shown work in NYC, Paris, Tokyo, and London. She holds a MFA from the City University of New York Hunter College. She is a student of Valerie Jaudon, Robert Morris, and art theorist Rosalind Krauss. She received individual artist grants from New England Foundation for the Arts, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Guild Hall Museum East Hampton NY. Exhibitions include Smith College, Parrish Museum, East Village NY; Biennials of Sao Paolo and Everson Museum. She is Adjunct Faculty at Eastern CT State University in digital art.