Beginning Watercolor

Beginning Watercolor

Adult Classes | This program is completed

585 Park Street Naples, FL 34102 United States

Studio 202

Beginner

3/29/2022-4/19/2022

9:00 AM-12:00 PM on Tue

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$200.00

$150.00

Starting with Basics is the perfect introduction to painting and arting! In this class you learn the basics of: color, composition, perspective, form, brush strokes, techniques (from wet-into-wet to spattering, pouring, spraying, stenciling, scrubbing). Each week your paintings are the focus of a nurturing critique and the means for you to explore your creativity.

  • Masks are recommended, but not mandatory.
  • PAINTS: Transparent Watercolor Paints--One tube each of Winsor & Newton or Daniel Smith, 15 ml. watercolor paints: Cadmium Red, Medium, Cadmium Yellow Medium, French Ultramarine Blue. Add to these an Orange, Green and Purple of your choice, plus any other colors you choose. Opaque Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache Paints—One tube 14 ml. of Permanent White & any other colors you choose.
  • PAPER: Arches Watercolor 140 lb. Cold Press Paper—either 1 sheet measuring 22” x 30” & divided in quarters measuring 11” x 15” or an Arches Watercolor block of papers 9” x 12” (20 sheets in each block) or larger.
  • BRUSHES: One 1” flat Winsor & Newton, Series 995 brush. (Kindly note: upon request other brush recommendations are available).
  • PALETTES: One Robert E. Wood Watercolor Palette, measuring 11”x16”x1”. (all transparent watercolor tubes should be emptied, completely, into the individual reservoirs of the palette & allowed to cure before 1st lesson, BUT, THE GOUACHE WILL BE RESERVED IN ITS TUBE UNTIL NEEDED). Several medical pipettes available from Cheap Joe’s Art Supplies.
  • ADDITIONAL SUPPLIES: Paper Towels, Carry-All Bag,
  • OTHER MATERIALS THAT WILL BE USED FROM TIME TO TIME: Winsor & Newton Art Masking Fluid, 75ml Two Large Water Containers, Several ‘Windex Style’ Spray Bottles Salt, Rubbing Alcohol Sketchbook/Journal and Pencil Masking Tape, Exacto Knife, Thin Clear Plastic Acetate Sheet for Stencils, Hair Dryer
  • SUPPLIERS: Cheap Joe's Art Stuff, NC, ph 1-800-227-2788 or on-line Daniel Smith Art Materials, WA, ph 1-800-426-6740 or on-line
  • Kindly note: The more different colors you have to work with on your palette—the more you will learn about the colors’ properties & their reactions to mixing. Your Robert E. Wood Palette has 24 color reservoirs.
  • Questions about supplies or suppliers? Call or email Genie Kell at 239-592-5028 or paintingit7@gmail.com
Kell, Genie BFA, MA

Genie’s Master of Arts degree from New York University and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from John Herron Art Institute are complemented by undergraduate study at Yale and Columbia Universities and training at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Genie has lived and exhibited her art in Athens, Greece, and on the Aegean islands of Mykonos and Santorini, and, in Venice, Italy, while completing her master’s degree there.

In addition to classes and workshops in watercolor, mixed-media, composition, oil and acrylic painting, art appreciation and art history offered throughout the U.S., since 1998, Genie has offered immersion workshops in France, Italy, Greece, and Belize through her ART ADVENTURE WORKSHOPS. Genie’s upcoming workshop, Venice: The Veneto & the 2024 Biennale, is scheduled for that autumn and will include Venice in addition to excursions to Ravenna, Padua, Palladian palazzi and other historic sites along Italy’s east coast as well as in-depth study of the international, contemporary art featured in Venice’s renown biennial exhibition.

In all her classes and workshops, while Genie is introducing new ways of thinking about art, encouraging the use of new techniques, and serving as a conduit for art methods and information, her focus is on encouraging each artist to pursue and embrace the elements that ensure success as an artist.