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I LOVE to teach watercolor painting and offer weekly classes in Deltaville, Virginia, as well as workshops for local and regional art leagues.  If you are interested in registering for a class or would like to host a workshop in your area, please feel free to contact me at kathleen@kathleennoffsinger.com

See my new workshops and classes listed below!   New classes will be added as scheduled.  Think you can't paint?  THINK AGAIN...2 workshops are offered below for the "wannabe" artist! 


Kathleen's art students painting in Bermuda in May, 2006


2012 Watercolor Classes 
 

Weekly Classes: 

DELTAVILLE, VA:


"Individual Studies in Watercolor" Session 1   (Beginner through Advanced)
6 Classes:  February 2 through March 8, 2012, Thursdays 9:30 AM to 12 Noon
Location: Philippi Christian Church, Deltaville, VA
Cost: $ 120
Supplies: Your regular watercolor painting supplies and resource photos
Registration: kathleen@kathleennoffsinger.com


"Individual Studies in Watercolor" Session 4
  (Beginner through Advanced)
6 Classes:  March 29 through May 3, 2012, Thursdays 9:30 AM to 12 Noon
Location: Philippi Christian Church, Deltaville, VA
Cost: $ 120
Supplies: Your regular watercolor painting supplies and resource photos
Registration: kathleen@kathleennoffsinger.com


 

Workshops:

Patriots Colony, Williamsburg, VA:
"Extreme Watercolor!”    (Beginner through Advanced)
2-Day Workshop:  January 11 and 12, 2012, 10:00 to 3:00
Location:
 Patriots Colony, Williamsburg, VA (Residents Only)
Supplies:  Supply list given at registration
Workshop Description:   Wet and wild color defines this workshop where anything goes!  Wear old clothes to happily splash paint in this wildly fun watercolor class.  No plans, no rules, no problem!  Let your “creative child” loose in this kindergarten painting class for adults.  Kathleen will give you lots of ideas for painting any subject creatively using watercolor, collage and other media!

 
Bay School, Mathews, VA

“Painting and Drawing Beautiful Flowers in Winter!” Open to All Media
 (Beginner through Advanced)
3-Day Workshop:  January 17, 18 and 19, 2012, 10:00 to 3:00
Location:  Bay School of Arts, 279 Main Street, Mathews, VA
Cost:  $ 145
Supplies:  
Please bring your regular watercolor supplies, your own non-copyrighted flower and garden photos and a stem or two of your favorite purchased flowers.  Amaryllis and orchids are welcome!  New students will receive a materials list at registration.  Bring or buy your lunch.
Registration:  Bay School (804) 725-1278
Workshop Description:   Anticipate spring and summer blossoms and be ready to paint them when they are blooming in your garden by learning the techniques in January!  Students will use greenhouse flowers and photos to capture realistic close-ups, arrangements and garden scenes while painting in the studio environment.  Although open to any medium, demonstrations and instruction will be in watercolor and a materials list for watercolor will be given at registration.  If you are working in another medium, please bring your favorite supplies.


Gloucester, VA:
"Beginning Watercolor: Painting Basics Simplified”
(Beginner through Intermediate)
2-Day Workshop: 
February 7 and 8, 2012, 10:00 to 3:00
Location: Gloucester Arts On Main Gallery, 6580-B Main Street, Gloucester, VA 23061   Phone
Cost:  $125
Supplies:  Supply list given at registration.  Bring or buy your lunch.
Registration: Gloucester Arts On Main Gallery (804) 824-9464
Workshop Description:
  This class presents all the basics for the new watercolor painter or a great review of color mixing and painting techniques for the intermediate painter.  Special emphasis will be placed on learning about watercolor painting supplies, how they are used and why certain transparent paints have been chosen.  Continuous hands-on demonstrations will show techniques first hand.



Bay School, Mathews, VA
“Painting the Spring Garden - Azaleas, Tulips and Daffodils in Watercolor” (Beginner through Advanced)
2-Day Workshop:  March 6 and 7, 2012, 10:00 to 3:00
Location:  Bay School of Arts, 279 Main Street, Mathews, VA
Cost:  $ 90
Supplies:  
Please bring your regular watercolor supplies, flower photos and fresh flowers.  New students will receive a supply list at registration.  Bring or buy your lunch.
Registration:  Bay School (804) 725-1278
Workshop Description:   
The choice of flowers is up to you but the spring garden is the theme for this new watercolor class!  Kathleen will demonstrate her techniques of “building a garden composition” as well as a “how to” for painting specific flowers using both wet-in-wet and layering watercolor techniques.

                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Patriots Colony, Williamsburg, VA:
"Painting Nature in Watercolor”  (Beginner through Advanced)    
1-Day Workshop:  March 14, 2012, 10:00 to 3:00
Location:
 Patriots Colony, Williamsburg, VA (Residents Only)
Supplies:  
Supply list given at registration
 
Workshop Description:   
Learn to capture the "spirit" of birds, animals and flowers in a natural habitat!  Techniques will include painting creatively in both realistic and impressionist styles using pure pigment watercolor, transparent glazing techniques and wet-in-wet mixing of paint on the paper.  Students will work individually using their own reference photos of birds, wildlife and flowers with maximum one-on-one instruction. 

 

Rappahannock Art League, Kilmarnock, VA
"Beginning Watercolor: Painting Basics Simplified” (Beginner through Intermediate)
2-Day Workshop: April 17 and 18, 2012, 10:00 to 3:00
Location: Rappahannock Art League Studio Gallery, 19 N. Main St., Kilmarnock, VA
Cost:  RAL Member $90; Non-Member $100.
  
Supplies:  Supply list given at registration.  Bring or buy your lunch.
Registration:  Rappahannock Art League Studio Gallery (804) 436-9309
Workshop Description: This class presents all the basics for the new watercolor painter or a great review of color mixing and painting techniques for the intermediate painter.  Special emphasis will be placed on learning about watercolor painting supplies, how they are used and why certain transparent paints have been chosen.  Continuous hands-on demonstrations will show techniques first hand.



Bay School, Mathews, VA
"Extreme Painting with Water Media on Paper!   (Beginner through Advanced)
2-Day Workshop:  May 1 and 2, 2012, 10:00 to 3:00
Location:  Bay School of Arts, 279 Main Street, Mathews, VA
Cost:  $ 90
Supplies:  A materials list will be given at registration.  Bring or buy your lunch.
Registration:  Bay School (804) 725-1278
Workshop Description:   
Wet and wild color defines this workshop where anything goes!  Wear old clothes to happily splash paint in this wildly fun watercolor class.  No plans, no rules, no problem!  Let your “creative child” loose in this kindergarten painting class for adults.  Kathleen will give you lots of ideas for painting any subject creatively using watercolor, collage and other media!

 

Patriots Colony, Williamsburg, VA:
"Painting the Beautiful Colors of Spring”  (Beginner through Advanced)    
1-Day Workshop:  May 16, 2012, 10:00 to 3:00
Location:
 Patriots Colony, Williamsburg, VA (Residents Only)
Supplies:  
Supply list given at registration 
Workshop Description:  Color is the emphasis as we paint the luminous greens of budding trees, the soft yellows of blooming bulbs and the cobalt and turquoise skies of early spring using “pure pigment” transparent watercolor paints!  Students will work individually using their own reference photos of landscape, seascape and garden scenes with maximum one-on-one instruction.  Bring your regular watercolor supplies. 



Patriots Colony, Williamsburg, VA:
"Painting the Summer Landscape in Watercolor”  (Beginner through Advanced)
2-Day Workshop:  July 18 and 19, 2012, 10:00 to 3:00
Location:
 Patriots Colony, Williamsburg, VA (Residents Only)
Supplies:  Supply list given at registration
Workshop Description:   Bring your most colorful summer sunrises and sunsets as well as your beach photos to this challenging and fun watercolor workshop open to all levels.  Lessons and demos will include using exaggerated color to capture the beauty of sky and water in landscapes and seascapes.  Demos will include Kathleen’s techniques for working on Aquabord for watercolor (formerly Clayboard Textured by Ampersand) and students who wish to try painting on this new surface may bring an 8 x 10 or 11 x 14 panel to class.  (Aquabord is available from Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff or Jerry’s Artarama catalogs).  Bring your regular watercolor supplies.   

 

Questions: Please contact Kathleen Noffsinger 

Kathleen Noffsinger Studios

P. O. Box 148, Deltaville, VA 23043

  email: kathleen@kathleennoffsinger.com
 

* All fees are non-refundable unless the workshops are cancelled. Workshop space is limited and classes fill quickly…please register early!

 

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