Summer Watercolor - Follow the Leader
Adult | FULL
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. This class has a required materials list.
- Please note: This class is 3 sessions
Please check the materials list below.
- Supplies: Bring photos. Watercolor paper pad of ‘cold press’ (bumpy) paper. Four watercolor brushes: A wash brush can have nylon hairs and it’s cheaper than mink! OR a cheap white hair Hake brush (see below), an inexpensive Japanese ‘calligraphy’ or Sume watercolor brush, a #9-ish WC “round”, and a long haired thin Rigger brush for your signature and fine accent lines. A metal or 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, tiny tube of black. To mix colors: a recycled plastic egg carton or white or glass dinner plate. Further supplies will be advised if needed. (Or Michaels has a ‘Pro Art Brush Hake 1x1” for $6.54 https://www.michaels.com/product/pro-art-brush-hake-1x1-hake-brush-pottery-glaze-brushes-japanese-paint-brushesglaze-brushes-for-pottery-brush-for-watercolor-pottery-surikomi-433285121437450248 More advanced, more $: the John Pike or similar ‘palette’ box 11x14ish has wells for many colors
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.