Start the new year with a low key, simple creative practice.
Gray: Minimalist Watercolor Workshop for Beginners is an in-person, task and technique-focused class where you’ll learn watercolor basics.
The Little Fox has taken care of the color choices, eliminated complicated subject matter, and relieved you from any pressure — your only task is to engage with approachable exercises, tiny, individualized exploration with water, paint, paper and a brush.
We’ll work small, explore the full range of Payne’s Gray, and learn how water and pigment interact on quality paper. Every technique builds toward a tiny final piece shaped from your favorite strokes, washes, and textures.
$45 per person. Venmo Nicole-Blais-6
Minimum number students to have class: 4
Max number of students: 12
You’ll leave with:
• your tiny paintings. A 2"x3" metallic frame for your favorite watercolor. Signed by the artist... you.
• a foundational understanding of watercolor movement, value, and control
• a minimalist practice you can return to anytime
This workshop is designed for true beginners, seasoned creatives looking to try a new medium, or anyone seeking a low-pressure opportunity to experiment with paper, paint, and water (and maybe make eye contact with another human!).
Materials will be provided.
1. #6 silver brush black velvet
2. Twelve pieces of 2"x3" Arches Aquarelle Cold Press 140 lb cards to paint on
3. Winsor Newton Artists' Watercolor in Payne's Gray
4. A 2x3 metal frame for your favorite creation
THE FINE PRINT (in capital letters) :
Materials used in the workshop are purchased for each student once receipt of payment is made. If you register and then cannot attend, the materials will be left for you on site at Over ANDover for you to collect at your leisure. You will be refunded $20. That is the registration fee MINUS the cost of your brush, paper and paint and a $5 service fee.
The artist behind Little Fox Watercolors: Nicole Blais
Nicole (she/her) is a self-taught, neurodivergent watercolorist, graduate student, and registered nurse whose personal creative practice rewards curiosity and finds inspiration in what is uniquely imperfect.
When she isn’t painting tiny, minimalist watercolors, she reclaims and reimagines salvaged materials into wearable, recycled art — giving new life to what’s been cast away.
Through both watercolor and her Little Fox pieces, she celebrates the resilience of reforged art — an artist for survivors, seekers, creatives, and other souls who have left the path of healing a little prettier (and a lot louder) than they found it.
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