Watercolor for Beginners with Liz Fusco | March | Spring

Watercolor for Beginners with Liz Fusco | March | Spring

Watercolor | This class is completed

Beginner, Intermediate

3/9/2021-3/30/2021

10:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Tue

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150.00 USD

Member Discount Available

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Watercolor can be a bit fussy and “unforgiving” at times, but with a little patience and practice, it can become a favorite medium because of its many advantages. Students will learn the basic foundation skills for watercolor. Students will learn how to use correct materials. They will learn how to transfer a drawing onto watercolor paper. Students will learn color mixing and basic color theory. They will learn how to create washes, wet into wet techniques and dry brush. We will experiment with some textures using masking fluid and other tricks of the trade. Working from photos, we will start slow and end up with a finished masterpiece!

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  • • Find the supplies and materials needed for the first 2 sessions of class in the course description listed online. Your instructor may send an additional materials list on the first day of class.
  • Tuition for virtual classes in non-refundable.
  • • Paints: Winsor & Newton, or Daniel Smith (not Cotman): Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow, French Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Scarlet Lake, Permanent Rose, Sap Green, Payne’s Grey or Neutral Tint Burnt Sienna
  • • Paper: Arches 140 lb cotton watercolor paper, either hot press or cold press ( I prefer hot press)
  • You can purchase a block or single large sheets
  • Support for your sheets of paper- either a wooden board ( I use foam core from the Dollar Tree) Artist’s tape
  • • Tracing paper
  • • Pencils: H, 2B, 4B, 6B and kneaded eraser and a good pencil sharpener
  • • Brushes: I use a variety of brushes. Some synthetic and some Kolinsky sable from Winsor & Newton I recommend either: round #4, #8 and maybe one flat wash brush
  • • Palette: Any kind to hold your paint. I use Mijello and some ceramic palettes as well
  • • Paper towels.
  • • 2 plastic water containers
Fusco, Liz

Painting and drawing is something I’ve been doing my entire life. I started my art career in high school and took a hiatus after getting married and raising a family. Going back to get my degree was always a goal of mine and as an adult I studied oil painting- both landscape and still life, .and I received my B.F.A. and MA with a NY certification in Art Education. As a teacher and lifelong learner, I am always looking to expand my knowledge. In 2014, I enrolled in the Botanical Certificate program at the New York Botanical Gardens and earned my certificate in
2017. Because of my passion for nature, wildlife and gardening, I began painting flowers and plant life. I really enjoy painting in both oils and watercolor and my subjects almost always include natural objects.
I have been exhibiting my work in local and national shows since 2010 and received awards for honorable mention and The Roth Award for Botanical Distinction at Filoli Gardens annual Botanical Exhibit in San Francisco, California. A recent group exhibit at the Carter Burden
Gallery in New York, had been featured in Fine Arts Connoisseur magazine in July of 2021. I have also had my work featured in other publications as Botanical Artist Journal, The Smithtown News and the TBR Artist Coloring Book published by the Times Beacon Record.
I am currently teaching Watercolor, Drawing and Oil Painting at the Art Leagues of Long Island and also at The Atelier at Flowerfield in St. James and also at the Art Guild in Port Washington.