The Watercolor Experience is a class for all levels of skill and confidence. If I can paint watercolors you can paint watercolors. And if I can expand my practice by trying new things, so can you.
Watercolor classes can be individual or arranged for groups. They can include supplies or you can bring your own. We will tailor this to your needs and to whatever sounds fun to you.
If you’re not sure where to start, I suggest booking the intro class with supplies.
Intro Class with Supplies is a 2 hour class where I teach you some of the basics and buy my favorite supplies (a travel watercolor set, pencil, eraser, ink pen, and pad of good quality paper) for you to use during the class and then take home. You will now be able to play and practice at home as well! The cost of this class is $200
All Level Class where you use my supplies: $75 for one hour
All Level Class with your supplies: $50 for one hour
Group rates include a 25% discount
More about me and my workshops:
When I bought my very first watercolor set on a trip to Italy more than a decade ago, I grew so frustrated with my own clumsiness in using it that I regretted spending the 16 or so euros. I could have gotten a Negroni Sbagliato instead! Yes, those were already a thing in Italy circa 2010.
Fast forward a few years and my little watercolor set became my best friend, my lifeline, my escape, my portal to access what I still consider the closest I’ll ever come to meditation. Creativity totally turned my life around, and I would love to share some tips and tricks, as well as the sheer joy of it with you.
Please be weird! Please be clumsy! Please be messy! Be a beginner or be well versed. Be a little scandalous (always extra points for that). Be shy or outgoing. Whatever. Just be your lovely self and come take a class with me. We’ll have lots to talk about. Where to start? How do you find inspiration? How do you make a dog’s eyes look shiny? How do you paint water? Should I always draw in pencil first? How do you make white? How do you make black? These are just some of the questions I have asked myself over the years while on my watercolor journey. The best thing about this process is that such things become fascinating to explore. And the more curiosity we have, the more interesting the world is to us in its minutiae, the more beautiful and rich our lives.
My qualifications? Besides being weird, messy, and occasionally scandalous… I have been a full-time artist and writer for several years now, but have practiced daily creativity for over a decade. I also have taught college and graduate classes for over twenty years. Most of my classes were Political Science courses, but they also included fun things such as Fashion and Politics (for which I got an award!) and a very successful graduate grant-writing class that drew heavily on the process of generating and developing creativity. Students loved that! And it really helped them! Also, they had fun, and not just in my more artsy classes. Trust me, if I can make American Government fun (and I always did), I can make art classes an absolute blast.
I will teach a very non-conformist class in which we ignore the most common techniques and rules. I can’t guarantee you’ll love your painting, but you will have fun, and I will try to give you all the tools to make this practice that has helped me so much part of your life.
All classes will be held at Sandovici Gallery in Montrose or at our Galveston location. More info available by email: elenasandovici@gmail.com
Here are some of my watercolors that I think turned out well. These are nothing except proof that if you keep at it, you can master this skill. And if will open up a whole new world to you.
