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Watercolor Classes for Beginners

Water Color Classes for Beginners


Old Lyme, CT –The Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library will offer a Water Color Class for Beginners starting on Tuesday, December 4th from 1:00 to 3:30 pm in the Community Room. Experience the joy of painting with watercolors and discover the artist within you! Classes will run for six weeks.


Instructor Joan Bernard, a local watercolor artist, will guide students through composition, color mixing and other basic elements of painting. Each participant will have time to learn and have feedback from Joan on their compositions and progress. Joan has studied fine art at Syracuse University, the Silvermire Art Center and the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. She has been painting in watercolor for 40 years. She is a resident of Old Saybrook and volunteers on the Art Exhibition Committee at the Library.

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The class fee is $140 for six sessions (Tuesday’s December 4 – January 22). There is no class on December 25th or January 1st. Registration and payment is due by the first class. Checks should be made out to Joan Bernard. To register, go to www.oldlyme.lioninc.org or call the Old Lyme PGN Library at 860-434-1684. For additional information please contact Joan directly at 860-388-1983.

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