Visual Arts
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…
New Art Center online: Ceramics – Intermediate/Advanced
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. Students of all levels explore the creative possibilities of ceramics. Demonstrations and hands-on instruction cover wheel throwing, handbuilding, and surface treatment including glazing. Each semester includes one group project or technique…
New Art Center online: Monotype Printing with a Press
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. Build skills in monotype printmaking. Experiment with techniques using an etching press: additive and subtractive printing, chine colle, trace monotype, overprinting, stencils, and direct painting on a plate. Explore ways of…
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…
Newton Art Association: Price versus Value
ONLINE United KingdomJoin Beacon Gallery owner and International Society of Appraisers member Christine O’Donnell for this first of four workshops. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to delve into one of the most difficult questions regarding art (beyond making it, of course!) - how to price one’s work. Christine will present various strategies an artist…