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This course focuses on the basics of watercolor painting using a limited palette. Mixing colors and basic painting techniques will be covered in this course for beginners. Art supplies needed for the first class include a pad of watercolor paper, tubes or pans of Payne’s gray and primary (red, yellow, blue) watercolor paints, brushes, a water pot, a pencil, paper towels, and a mixing palette. Class Limit: 10

Instructor Cynthia Dias is a watercolor artist who has taught art and historically based classes for a number of years. In addition to her artwork that features scenes of Maine and England, she creates textiles that are handwoven at her home in Newcastle. She has worked as a curator and director of various museums and has illustrated a museum cookbook.