Watercolor Winter Wonderland
A Maker's Circle Studio 40 Pottersville Road, Gladstone, NJ, United StatesWinter scenes are so satisfying to paint with watercolors as it's the perfect medium to translate the white of the snow and the shadows created when the sun is low in the sky. The secret to a successful painting is in the shadows that create the contours of the land and highlight the white of…
Tween Watercolor Class
A Maker's Circle Studio 40 Pottersville Road, Gladstone, NJ, United StatesIn this 2 hour class, artist Jackie Pankuck will lead your tween through the drawing, planning and layering of watercolor to create a vibrant, color rich painting. No experience is necessary. The horse is the perfect reference for a watercolor painting with the strong color and expressive brush strokes. A wet into wet approach with…
Color Mixing With Watercolor Paints
A Maker's Circle Studio 40 Pottersville Road, Gladstone, NJ, United StatesLearn more about the pigments in your palette, their properties, the colors you can mix with them and create color charts to use in your painting practice. Artist, Jackie Pankuck will lead you in a discussion of the color wheel and the creation of your own set of color charts of warms, cools and greens.…
Painting a Nocturne in Watercolor
A Maker's Circle Studio 40 Pottersville Road, Gladstone, NJ, United StatesIt's Winter and it's dark, so we might as well paint nocturnes! Nocturnes have a special challenge as the value shifts are typically smaller. That makes it harder to create impact. We will paint this dramatic, Oldwick NJ scene. It's a winter photo that was taken at 3am on a night with an incredible moon…
8 Week Winter Young Child Art Class Series
A Maker's Circle Studio 40 Pottersville Road, Gladstone, NJ, United StatesDuring this 8-week workshop, art teachers Susan Palmer & Jackie Pankuck will help your child explore different art media including clay, watercolor, oil pastels, mono prints and more. This process driven art class will honor child centered learning. Through these projects, children will be exposed to the elements of art - color, form, line, shape, space, texture,…
A Slab Platter and Surface Design Workshop–Sgraffito
A Maker's Circle Studio 40 Pottersville Road, Gladstone, NJ, United StatesBy definition, sgraffito is a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color. In this Sunday workshop, we will explore the relationship of positive and negative space on clay using sgraffito. Firing cost included with class.