Intermediate Watercolor with Liz Fusco | Tues 9am-11am | 11/26-12/17 | Fall 2024

Intermediate Watercolor with Liz Fusco | Tues 9am-11am | 11/26-12/17 | Fall 2024

Watercolor | Available

107 East Deer Park Road Dix Hills, NY 11746 United States
Studio 7
Intermediate
11/26/2024-12/17/2024
9:00 AM-11:00 AM EST on Tue
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194.00 USD
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Intermediate Watercolor with Liz Fusco | Tues 9am-11am | 11/26-12/17 | Fall 2024

Watercolor | Available

In this beginner to intermediate watercolor course, students can learn everything you need to know about beginning with watercolors, from types of paints and paper, to advanced techniques. First time students will experience demos, one on one teaching time, inter-class discussions, and more to acclimate them into the new and exciting world of watercolor. Continuing and intermediate students will develop more involved pieces with plenty of individual guidance from the instructor.

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. Techniques covered in this class include transferring drawings onto watercolor paper, color mixing, color theory, creating washes, wet on wet techniques, and dry brushing. The class 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! Continuing students can work from still lives or reference images of their choice.

  • • 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
Liz Fusco

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.