Contemporary Watercolor - Follow the Leader
Adult | Registration opens 11/19/2025 8:00 PM EST
Create fresh, inspired watercolor paintings while exploring the subtle beauty of color, light, and mark-making. Build your work step by step—from broad washes to fine details, from light to dark tones—developing a process that brings your vision to life. Experience the luxury of working with sable brushes for luminous, transparent washes and Japanese natural-hair brushes for drawing and layering color, Please note: NO class 1/19. This class has a required materials list.
- Please note: This class is 7 sessions
- Supplies: Palette: John Pike or similar from Jerry's Artarama online. Brushes from home: borrow from GAC until supplies are explained. You’ll only need 5-6 brushes. Paper: cold press watercolor 9x12 paper or block. Paint: children’s kit with fluorescent colors or other kit; or tubes of Rose Magenta, Lemon Yellow, French Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Sienna, Paynes Gray to start. Don't waste money on bad supplies.
Alexa MacCrady
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.