Luminous Landscapes: Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor

Embrace the luminous quality of painting landscapes in watercolor. In this beginner-friendly course, you’ll learn to paint verdant woods, lonely trees, quiet lakes, and glowing twilight skies—capturing the calm and subtle color shifts that make the springtime so magical. Step by step, we’ll explore essential watercolor techniques including washes, layering, texture effects, and brush control, while focusing on the unique light and atmosphere of springtime scenes.

Each week builds confidence through guided projects and demonstrations, with plenty of room for personal expression. You’ll discover how to paint blooming trees, shadows that feel crisp, and skies that seem to glow from within. By the end of the session, you’ll have a small portfolio of landscapes—and the confidence to keep painting as the seasons change.

There will be no class on April 8th.

This class is for beginners. We will explore how the paint moves with the water, experience how different paper reacts with the paint, practice layering color to add depth and shading, how colors blend, brushstrokes and basic drawing. Participants will have two finished pieces and gain more confidence with the medium.

Supplies needed:

- Palette - any style, white, plastic with enough room to mix colors

- Mason jar, or something to hold water

-Paint:A grumbacher watercolor paint set will work. If you want to invest in tubes of paint, a suggested basic palette of colors:

• Cool Red – Permanent Alizarin Crimson

• Warm Red – Cadmium Red Light, Light Red or Vermillion

• Cool Blue: Cobalt Blue

• Warm Blue: Thalo Blue or Prussian Blue

• Warm Yellow: Yellow Ochre or Raw Sienna

• Cool Yellow: Light Yellow

• Warm Green: Gold Green or Sap Green

• Cool Green: Veridian Green or Emerald Green

• Earths: Sepia, or Burnt Sienna

• Payne's grey

- Size 10 round watercolor brush

- Size 5 or 6 round watercolor brush

- 3/4 or 1 inch Flat wash watercolor brush

- Rigger watercolor brushpencil

- Kneaded eraser

- At least 10 sheets of watercolor paper: 9x12, can be hot press or cold press, can be in a tablet or a block. Some examples are Canson 9x12 Portrait, Wirebound or Watercolor pad; Arches 9x12 watercolor block, 140 lb.

Wheel-y fun is a 8 week class that will teach you the basics of pottery including centering the clay, opening, pulling up walls, trimming, firing, and glazing.

There will be no class on April 9th.

This eight week hand building class is a great way to spend your Friday mornings! Students will get ready for the spring as they create a bird feeder, create a unique coil bowl, work small through a miniature pieces, and design and create a folded slab piece. Of course, if your creativity is taking your projects in another direction, create what your heart desires. With your class registration, you have access to the studio an additional two hours per week during Open Studio so the fun can continue (or so you can make up a missed class). Enjoy your Friday mornings doing something you love-come join the clay community at the Kish Center!

There will be no class on April 10th.

This eight week hand building class is a great way to spend your Friday mornings! Students will get ready for the spring as they create a bird feeder, create a unique coil bowl, work small through a miniature pieces, and design and create a folded slab piece. Of course, if your creativity is taking your projects in another direction, create what your heart desires. With your class registration, you have access to the studio an additional two hours per week during Open Studio so the fun can continue (or so you can make up a missed class). Enjoy your Friday mornings doing something you love-come join the clay community at the Kish Center!

There will be no class on April 10th.

Want to elevate the surface of your pots? In this 8-week wheel-throwing class, you'll explore how surface design can deepen the visual and narrative impact of your ceramic work. We'll dive into techniques like sgraffito, mishima, underglaze painting, and more to approach the pot as both functional object and storytelling canvas. This class is beginner-friendly and includes instruction in the core skills of wheel throwing with projects focused on creating cups, bowls, and plates. For returning students, it's a perfect opportunity to strengthen your throwing ability while pushing your creative boundaries through surface experimentation! Whether you're new to clay or looking to add depth and meaning to your forms, come ready to get messy, get thoughtful, and give your pots a voice!

There will be no class on April 5th.

Want to elevate the surface of your pots? In this 8-week wheel-throwing class, you'll explore how surface design can deepen the visual and narrative impact of your ceramic work. We'll dive into techniques like sgraffito, mishima, underglaze painting, and more to approach the pot as both functional object and storytelling canvas. This class is beginner-friendly and includes instruction in the core skills of wheel throwing with projects focused on creating cups, bowls, and plates. For returning students, it's a perfect opportunity to strengthen your throwing ability while pushing your creative boundaries through surface experimentation! Whether you're new to clay or looking to add depth and meaning to your forms, come ready to get messy, get thoughtful, and give your pots a voice!

There will be no class on April 5th.

If you’ve always wanted to learn to draw, but aren’t sure where to start, this class is for you! We’ll cover basic perspective, value (shading), people and faces, and how to get your eyes and hands working together. Supplies included.

There will be no class on April 6th.