Instructor: Marianne A. Kinzer
Monday - Friday
October 6 - 10
9am - 12pm
5 sessions
Paint natural objects! They can be fruits or vegetables, flowers or snails, or any living thing that does not move or change very fast, so you have some time to capture it. Aside from learning how to handle watercolor, you may deepen your understanding of nature. We will begin by discussing fundamentals about papers, brushes, and pigments. We will make drawings before painting, and paint in dark and light tones before using color. Painting relatively fast focuses your attention and bypasses judgement while it often brings out the special qualities of watercolor.
Beginning to intermediate. Some drawing skills recommended
Marianne A. Kinzer is a German-born American artist who lives and works in Boston and Truro. Her work centers around nature, with a focus on the role of water for life. She is a member of Shared Habitat Earth, a group of artists concerned about climate change.
She has worked as a visual artist for more than 30 years and has shown her work in galleries and community centers on three continents. Since 2011 she exhibits in and around Boston and Truro. She is a member of several watercolor societies, among them the New England Watercolor Society. In Germany, she earned a Masters Degree and then studied part time at the Berlin University of Arts (1990s). She worked and exhibited in Turkey (1996-2000). In America (since 2000) she showed her work in Chicago and vicinity next to taking art classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, specializing in watercolor. More recently, the workshops of watercolor artist Wendy Artin have alerted her to the beauty of still life.