A Summer Survey: Intro to Watercolor
Instructed by
Samantha Haring, Manifest Resident Instructor
Schedule:
Monday-Thursday, 3-6pm
June 16-19, 2025
Registration Deadline: June 13, 2025
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"Watercolor is an alchemical medium–colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it–creating new life where none had been before."
— Joseph Raffael
Description:
Curious about watercolor? Ever wonder how your favorite artists achieve such fresh-looking paintings? Join us this summer for an intensive introduction to this luminous, fickle medium. In this four-session daily class, we will practice a variety of techniques to create surface effects, including flat washes, gradients, and drybrush. Using a primarily direct approach, we will help build confidence in your markmaking and clarity in your shapes. Come paint with us!
This class will cover the following topics:
- Flat washes, gradients, variegated washes, and drybrush
- Wet-on-dry and wet-into-wet techniques
- Staining, sedimentary, and luminous watercolor pigments
- Value, temperature, and full color paintings
Fee:
$200
Minimum Enrollment: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 12
Materials list: (link to printable PDF)
Level of Study:
This class is suggested for individuals with some drawing experience. Basic observational drawing knowledge is recommended, as the main focus of the class will be on painting. Some limited drawing instruction can be included throughout the class as needed.
Questions? Please contact Education and Studio Program Manager, Adam Mysock at mysock@manifestdrawingcenter.org with any questions about this list and/or course.
Andrew Wyeth
LOCATION: Unless otherwise specified, all courses are hosted at Manifest's new facility at 'M1' in Clifton at 3464 Central Parkway (see map and directions below). Manifest's new facility provides multiple studio classrooms, private lesson space, a darkroom, a film processing room, and a multi-purpose lecture and class meeting space as well as on-site parking, grounds, and exterior spaces in which to relax, discuss, and make art. The studios are outfitted with professional equipment, furniture, and study aids.
Map to Manifest's M1 Studios | Studio Calendar | Darkroom Calendar
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Samantha Haring
Mark Adams
Vanessa Bell
Samantha Haring
About the instructor:
Samantha Haring is a Midwest painter from Des Plaines, Illinois. She makes quiet paintings in a noisy world. Haring earned her MFA from Northern Illinois University and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has also studied in Italy at the International School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture; it was there that she fully developed her commitment to light, color, and observational painting. Haring’s work has been published in New American Paintings as well as recent Manifest International Drawing and Painting Annuals.
Haring was one of the 2015-2016 Artists-in-Residence at Manifest. She has been a Resident Instructor at the Drawing Center since 2016; she also teaches drawing and design courses at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design. She currently maintains a studio in Cincinnati, where she spends an inordinate amount of time staring at the color of dust. Watercolor was her first love.
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