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Watercolor
The Art League School in Old Town Alexandria, VA offers classes and workshops specializing in watercolor techniques with first-rate instructors.
Classes and workshops take place year-round during the week, weekend, day and evening.
See also: Painting
Instructor Peter Ulrich demonstrates how to paint watercolor in a limited palette
Watercolor classes
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Type
Term
Day of the Week
Time of Day
Instructor
Susan O’Neill
- Winter 2019/20
- Monday
- January 13, 2020
- 7:00 pm
- — 9:30 pm
- 9 Session
- , $210.00
- 1
Kim Stenberg
- Winter 2019/20
- Monday
- January 13, 2020
- 9:30 am
- — 12:30 pm
- 9 Session
- , $230.00
- 1
Charlene Fuhrman-Schulz
- Winter 2019/20
- Tuesday
- January 14, 2020
- 1:00 pm
- — 4:00 pm
- 8 Session
- , $200.00
- 1
Alice Kale
- Winter 2019/20
- Tuesday
- January 14, 2020
- 9:30 am
- — 12:30 pm
- 9 Session
- , $230.00
Susan O’Neill
- Winter 2019/20
- Tuesday
- January 14, 2020
- 1:00 pm
- — 4:00 pm
- 9 Session
- , $230.00
Rachel Collins
- Winter 2019/20
- Tuesday
- January 14, 2020
- 7:00 pm
- — 9:30 pm
- 9 Session
- , $210.00
- 1
Charlene Fuhrman-Schulz
- Winter 2019/20
- Tuesday
- January 14, 2020
- 7:00 pm
- — 9:30 pm
- 8 Session
- , $185.00
- 1
Leigh Culver
- Winter 2019/20
- Tuesday
- January 14, 2020
- 9:30 am
- — 2:00 pm
- 9 Session
- , $320.00
Kim Stenberg
- Winter 2019/20
- Wednesday
- January 15, 2020
- 7:00 pm
- — 9:30 pm
- 9 Session
- , $210.00
Rachel Collins
- Winter 2019/20
- Wednesday
- January 15, 2020
- 9:30 am
- — 12:30 pm
- 9 Session
- , $230.00
- 1
Avis Fleming
- Winter 2019/20
- Thursday
- January 16, 2020
- 10:00 am
- — 12:30 pm
- 9 Session
- , $210.00
Susan Herron
- Winter 2019/20
- Thursday
- January 16, 2020
- 7:00 pm
- — 10:00 pm
- 9 Session
- , $230.00
- 1
Watercolor instructors
Watercolor on the Creativity in Action blog
Make the last few days of this snowy winter a little more colorful at The Art League. The school is gearing up for Spring classes, workshops, and Art Camp 2019! Here’s a curated selection of Spring workshops to welcome back longer days and warmer weather:
View Shinberg's exhibit in the Gallery now through January 6, and visit us TONIGHT for the Opening Reception of “re-Cog’-ni’-zing / dc” and meet the artist!
The women Deborah Conn has portrayed on paper not only “speak” to us through strong color and composition, but also through their own narratives and stories which accompany each portrait.
We sat down with Jackie Saunders, winner of Best in Show for 2-D Figurative Work in the May Open Exhibit, to discuss her piece Uncertainty.
Watercolorist Deborah Conn's paintings of women, when hung, seem to be inviting you into conversation. Conn celebrates inner resilience and strength in “A Sense of Herself."
"One day, when the trees were that amazing golden greeny mustard color, I said, I just have to stop and paint it — so I did!"
Does “playing with water” refer only to the children in the picture? Or could it also be that Sally Davies is enjoying experimenting with watercolor again?
This is a typical painting for me: It came from a mistake or unpredictability.
There's no more quintessential wet-weather experience than staring out a rain-streaked window, and that familiar scene is the subject of December's award-winning watercolor by Jane Thomas.
Painter Catherine Hillis loves to capture a good story, so it’s not surprising that an exhibit like “Op-Ed” garnered her an award.
Rush hour finds peace in a cool palette — and a quiet moment plucked from a stressful routine.
“I think that a successful painting happens when you really enjoy the process.”
“I love the mystery of what took place in the past and who might have lived or worked there.”
In several ways, this month's Best in Show piece is a classic Art League story.
You've seen her artwork in the Gallery, you've met her at opening receptions, and this summer you can start taking classes with Alice Kale.
What I learned painting in 17 degree temperatures today: when it's cold enough out, watercolor crystallizes on your palette, and then solidifies on your paper.
This dogwood branch started life on the artist's tree, traveled to the classroom, was captured in its autumn glory with colors mixed on the paper, and today it's in the December All-Media Exhibit.
“I tend to see ALL the details! Working in miniature releases me from sweating the details, since the size forces me to take in the whole scene.”
“I wanted to do a bold, strong, dramatic painting that would stand out with some twinkling colorful lighting effects.”
“In art, red autumnal leaves have always, perhaps rather tritely, symbolized the passing of time, death, beauty, fragility, etc. But when you are in the midst of experiencing it on a personal level, it resonates.”
"Some watercolor artists tend to define wet-in-wet watercolor and glazing watercolor as two totally separate and opposed approaches to the medium. I tend to see them as complementary."
"People say watercolor is unforgiving, which just means you have to enjoy risk and accident. I'm trying to get there."
At the Window was awarded the Sid Platt Watercolor Award in this month's "Body Language" exhibit, open through November 4.
Peter Ulrich, watercolor instructor at The Art League, sent in two photos of what he's been painting at Solomons Island, the site of a travel workshop starting today.
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