Visual Arts
New Art Center online: Painting Believable Light – “Glow”
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. What makes a painting “glow?” What is the glowing quality that appears in the work of many master painters? How does an artist make this happen? To communicate a feeling of…
New Art Center: Gesture, Color, Painting
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesThis exciting class will bridge the methods of gesture drawing with abstract painting. Students will investigate intuitive mark-making as the base for an abstract painting, and explore ways that color heightens the work. They will explore the relationship between line, shape and color, and look at art from the present and past to better understand…
New Art Center: The Figure and Beyond
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Work from a live model and discover new ways to approach art making. Experiment with drawing and/or painting to expand your range. Use the figure as the focus or a point…
New Art Center Online: Painting with Color
ZoomNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Discover the magic of color! This class is designed to develop or strengthen your skills for all aspects of color mixing: value, warm/cool, and opposites/complementary. Students will create their own value…
New Art Center online: Acrylic and Oil Painting – Intermediate/Advanced
ZoomNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Explore the emotive, expressive and representative qualities of paint in an exciting studio environment. Focus on the painting process, how marks and color can be generated from spontaneous reactions to a…
New Art Center online: Watercolor Explorations
ZoomNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. This course for experienced watercolor students will focus on composition, values, and wash techniques in rendering landscape, botanicals, and still life. Students may work on suggested projects or those of their…
New Art Center online: Post-Modern Assemblage Painting
ZoomNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Paint, block print, or push the envelope with a postmodern approach to assemblage. Grow your practice through thoughtful critiques with attention to individual strengths. Combine your favorite forms in this creative…
New Art Center online: Beginning Drawing
Trio Newton 243 Walnut Street, Unit 213, Newton, MA, United StatesNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Learn basic drawing essentials! Students will sharpen their observation skills and learn to develop accurate and expressive drawings using a variety of materials. Learning to draw provides students with an excellent…
New Art Center online: Contemporary Explorations
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. This course for advanced painters offers the chance to develop individual work within a group context. Individual painting and drawing development is facilitated through one-on-one discussions with the instructor and group…
New Art Center online: Painting Beyond Foundations
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Intermediate and advanced students explore and develop personal themes while pushing their skills to the limit. Demos, group exercises, color theory, advanced painting techniques with regular critique and conversation support and…