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  • Tuesdays, September 25 – November 13, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, OR Tuesdays, September 25 – November 13, 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm – Improve Your Watercolor Skills

    Join the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for this eight-week course (September 25 – November 13) with artist and instructor Nan Rumpf. Classes are designed to further develop your watercolor painting skills and techniques. Each lesson is an activity designed to explore a different art element, principle, or painting technique. Explore the many possibilities of watercolor as you enhance your personal painting style and discover your artistic voice. Handouts, demos, painting examples, critiques will be supplied by the instructor.

    Nan Rumpf grew up in a small Iowa town on the banks of the Mississippi River, where she spent much of her childhood exploring the outdoors on her bicycle and daydreaming under a lilac bush. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. She currently lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She has worked as a professional puppeteer, designing and constructing her own puppets and masks. She organized dramatic arts workshops in public schools and libraries for twenty years.

    She has studied watercolor painting with Susan Swinand, Jane Goldman, Paul George, Charles Reid, Miles Batt, and Cheng Khee Chee. Her paintings have been exhibited at The DeCordova Museum School Gallery, The Danforth Museum, The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, The Attleboro Arts Museum, The Wellesley Free Library (First Place Award), The Center For The Arts in Natick, Art on the Common in Needham (First Place Award), The Clinton Art show (Best In Show), Post Road Art (First Place Award in the Abstract Show), The Wellesley Community Center (Margaret Fitzwilliam Award for Excellence in Watercolor), The New England Watercolor Society Show in Cotuit (Woodruff Art Center Award) and her painting Soaring was awarded by George Nick in Concord Art’s Juried Members show.

    She is a member of the Concord Art Association, the Wellesley Society of Artists, The Rhode Island Watercolor Society and is a signature member of the New England Watercolor Society. She was chosen as one of the two art judges for The Amazing Things Summer Juried Art Show in 2012. Learn more at www.nanrumpf.com

    $330 for Mass Hort members, $380 for nonmembers. Register online for morning sessions at https://masshort.org/education-events/improve-your-watercolor-skills-morning/2018-09-25/ or for afternoon sessions at https://masshort.org/education-events/improve-your-watercolor-skills-afternoon/2018-09-25/

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  • Thursdays, October 6 – November 17, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Watercolor Painting in the Botanic Gardens

    In this seven part series at the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, award-winning artist and educator Susan Swinand offers critiques and projects to spark your creativity and develop your skill.  The class is suitable for adults at all levels of experience. Lessons will focus on basic design principles, learning to portray what you see, mixing color, and watercolor painting techniques such as applying washes and glazes, wet-into-wet color, achieving hard and soft edges, etc.  The classes begin Thursday, October 7 from 1 – 4 and continue through November 17.  Friends of Wellesley Botanic Garden member price $200, nonmembers $250.  Register at 781-283-3094.1822535-CVLKHJXM-7

  • Thursdays, May 5 – June 16, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Watercolor Landscapes

    Thursdays, May 5 – June 16, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Watercolor Landscapes

    Susan Swinand teaches adults at all levels of experience to solve the problems of painting on location: changing light and cast shadows, elements of perspective, color and composition and all the techniques you’ll need for success.  Follow your own interests in the classroom or work on site in the Wellesley College Gardens.  One on one instruction and group critiques help you develop skills and explore what works. This seven session class, offered by the Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, will take place from 1 – 4 on Thursdays from May 5 through June 16.  Friends member price $200, nonmembers $250.  Register by calling 781-283-3094 or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

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  • Thursdays, May 1 – June 12, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Watercolor Landscapes

    The Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens will sponsor a class on seven consecutive Thursdays, May 1 – June 12, from 1 – 4 pm on campus, entitled Watercolor Landscapes.  Susan Swinand teaches adults at all levels of experience to solve those awkward problems of painting on location: changing natural light and cast shadows, elements of atmospheric and linear perspective, color and composition and all the techniques you’ll need for success.  Learn to use ordinary elements of nature for expressive purposes.  Follow your own interests in the classroom or work on site in the gardens.  One-on-one instruction and group critiques further your progress as you explore what makes a painting work. Friends price is $200, nonmembers $250.  Register by calling 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

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  • Wednesdays, May 4 – June 15, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Art as a Way of Seeing and Knowing

    The Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture offer a seven week class entitled Art as a Way of Seeing and Knowing, A Journey of Discovery, beginning Wednesday, May 4, from 1 – 4, and continuing through June 15, at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden and Greenhouses in Wellesley, Massachusetts.  This class offers a unique opportunity for serious artists at all levels.  Be inspired and renewed by the awesome diversity of natural forms available year round in the greenhouses and arboretum at Wellesley College.  Or, use your drawings, memory and imagination to develop ideas in the studio classroom.  Draw or paint using materials that suit your expressive intentions.  In a warm and supportive atmosphere, award winning artist/educator Susan Swinand offers critiques and suggests projects to spark your creativity.  WCFH members, $200, non-members $250.  To register, log on to www.wellesley.edu/WCFH, or call 781-283-3094. Image of work below by Susan Swinand courtesy of Pascarelli Gallery.