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Beginners Watercolor Painting

Explore the luminous, fluid world of watercolor painting at one of NYC's most celebrated art studios. Classes cover a wide range of techniques and subject matter including landscape, still life, and abstraction, with experienced instructors guiding you at every step. Designed for all levels, with a particularly warm welcome for complete beginners.

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Description

Ignite your inner artist through watercolor painting with support from New York City's leading-rated art studio, The Art Studio NY. Watercolor is the perfect medium for beginners to embark on an inspiring artistic journey. Learn an impressive range of watercolor techniques that will elevate your creative expression to new heights.

This course is ideal for beginners or for those with some watercolor experience who want to deepen their understanding. You'll explore diverse subject matter including landscape, still life, and abstract work throughout a supportive, judgment-free learning environment. If watercolor is entirely new to you, this is the ideal starting point. This course is also well-suited for those who have completed our online course Intro to Fear-Free Watercolor Painting.

What you'll achieve in this inspiring, relaxing, and enjoyable class:

  • Receive personalized expert watercolor instruction from a professional artist and educator based at our NYC studio
  • Master watercolor techniques including gradated washes, wet-on-wet techniques, wet-on-dry painting, dry brush effects, variegated washes, splattering, dripping, glazing, color mixing, and advanced methods
  • Feel energized by step-by-step demonstrations and detailed instruction
  • Integrate watercolor techniques with your authentic artistic voice and personal expression
  • Complete multiple finished paintings you'll be proud to display or gift
  • Experience scientifically documented benefits of watercolor painting including relaxation, stress reduction, improved memory, and increased creative satisfaction

This class is perfect for returning students, we never repeat projects and always introduce new techniques and subjects for those with prior experience.

Art materials:

Materials are not included and are your responsibility to provide.

You will need to bring the following supplies:

  • Watercolor paper in your preferred size, preferably 140 pounds weight but 90 pounds will work
  • Watercolor paint set in pan or tube format, pan sets are excellent for beginning artists
  • Paint palette or mixing surface
  • Variety of watercolor brushes including round and flat shapes
  • Container or jar for water
  • Painter's blue tape for paper securing
  • Pencil and eraser for preliminary sketches
  • Sakura Pigma Micron black pen for details
  • Masking fluid, optional for advanced techniques

Supplier recommendation: We recommend sourcing your supplies from Blick Art Materials, but any quality art supply brand will work well.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

Class tuition is neither refundable nor transferable. No refunds will be issued after registration and payment. In case of a Medically Certified illness, a credit will be issued after receipt of your physician’s documentation. The value of the credit will be for the balance of the remaining class sessions with an additional deduction of a $95 registration fee. Credit may be used up to 12 months.

If after your first class you are dissatisfied with the quality of your course, a written note must be submitted within 1 business day after your first class. After receiving your note, refund of class tuition will be reviewed by our staff. If a refund is granted, processing of refunds requires 8-10 weeks. A 5% nonrefundable processing fee will be applied.

Course Cancellations

Although course cancellation is quite rare, The school reserves the right to cancel classes or change instructor assignments and makes every effort to notify students in advance. If enrollment goals are not met, a course may be canceled up to 1 business day before the first scheduled class. In the event of cancellation, a refund or credit is granted. On occasion, a course start-date will be pushed back if enrollment goals are not met. In this instance, you will receive a credit for the price of the class that did not take place.

Please note that there will be NO exceptions to this under any circumstances.

Make-up Policy

Unfortunately, The school does not offer any makeups for classes missed. However, if the student wants to get the most from the course and the absence, they can tell the instructor when they will be absent and the instructor can provide some guidance on exercises to practice while away.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

Reviews of Classes at The Art Studio NY (679)

(4.4-star rating across 679 reviews)

This class: 4.8 out of 5 from 12 reviews

  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    Class was amazing and very easy to follow! And it definitely allowed me to get back into painting!
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    I took the class along with my son. We really enjoyed it and learned a lot. We learned about technique and also to enjoy the process. Great class and instructor!
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    Thought teacher covered the basics of painting in watercolors extremely well. She always touched base with the class on their progress and very open to our questions
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    Loved the class and Anna the instructor. Well worth the money. My husband and I enjoyed the time together and learning the basic techniques.
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    I really liked Anna as a teacher. She explains things clearly and is very supportive. The one thing that I would have liked to have had on the first day was information about whether she was going to be mostly talking or whether we needed to have paint ready. I wasn’t prepared properly that day since I didn’t know what to expect. I would take more classes with her.
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    I learned more from Elizabeth in this class than in three years of other classes. I’m also enjoying my own work so much more.
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    Class was great....I learned exactly what I needed to know to move forward. Helpful evaluations and wonderful demonstrations.
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    Really enjoyed this class and learned a great deal. Laura Habian was wonderful and explained things so well and was very encouraging. Definitely recommend this class and will look for others that are similar. Watercolor isn't something you can master in a few classes and I want to learn more. Thank you, Laura! Karen
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    The class was good and the teacher was good. But some of the work was to uniform and I don’t think that’s a good way to teach beginners to do their artwork. In life flowers are not uniform and should not be painted as such. They are random. Otherwise I learned a lot from that class and enjoyed it. I felt like the teacher was very easy-going with the students and good for a beginner class.
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    James is an awesome instructor. Super enthusiastic!!!!!
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

    Really enjoyed it! The instructor was great and very helpful!!
  • Beginners Watercolor Painting

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