Watercolours / Aquarelle with Marina

Every tuesday afternoon from 14:00 to 16:30 Marina Kulik hosts a class at the Hangar. On Monday evening sje sends out an email to everyone on her mailing list announce the subject for the week. This week the mail came announcing "chess pieces". My immediate reaction was "oh no !!!!". Marina comes to class so well prepared. She brings photos of the subjects - most times she brings a still life (if possible somethig relevant to the subject).  When she has done so much work - I don't really want to disappoint her and choose my own subject (which she of course would not object to). I started researching chess pieces - old and new, as pieces for a board game and pieces with other uses (furniture as an example). I got more and more enthusiatisc and by the time I was finished researching I had several ideas.

First I had to finish last weeks asisgnment: Soap Bubbles - but then it was on to Chess Pieces.

Those that have been going to Marinas classes for a while have developped their own ways of working and their own styles. Here you can see some of the artists at work:

Marina has a blog where she posts the results of each class. For those of us that travel a lot - or only spend some months a year in the south of France, its fun to keep up with whats happening in class. Below you can see Marina in action taking photos of the work for the blog.

And if you are interested, you can take a look at the Aquarellista blog here: http://aquarellista.blogspot.com/

If you are a COMPLETE beginner to painting - or a newcomer to watercolours - no problem. The first lessons Marina will run you through, are an introductory course teaching you the basics. We've all done it.

The class always finishes with a line-up of the work and critique / comments from Marina.