Join us for a watercolor course with
the 55th annual summer show first place winner amber hart!
This 6-week workshop meets
tuesday, june 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, & july 7
from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Contemporary Watercolor is a 6-week course exploring the basics of the watercolor medium. The class will go over different technics in handling the medium such as wet on wet and blooming while also investigating art history palettes. This course is meant to teach students the basics of the medium and allow you to develop as an artist based on individuality and not academic standards. Instructor Hart aims to educate and push artists to find themselves in their practice over creating hyper-realism results. At the end of the course, students will walk away with 5 to 6 complete watercolor paintings to take home. This class is open to all levels and instruction of material is flexible per student’s skill level while keeping the whole class working together.
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Monochromatic Painting
Week 3: Complimentary Color Painting
Week 4: Abstract Painting
Week 5: Landscape Painting – bring in your own personal photo!
Week 6: Final Painting with Still-Life
All Experience Levels Welcome!
Students are Responsible for Most Supplies
Ages 13 & Older
All supplies available at Mo’s Art Supply in Downtown Covington.
Classes located at 320 North Columbia Street in Downtown Covington!
About AMber
Amber Hart is a first-generation American born citizen from a Belizean family that immigrated to New Orleans in 1976. She grew up in rural landscapes as she moved back and forth over state lines throughout her childhood. The adverse lifestyle shaped behavioral tendencies such as seeking out constants in public and private spaces as a source of grounding. Those constants became objects of comfort being charged by psychological tension in her paintings. Hart credits the act of painting as a catharsis by applying her personal constants, plurality psychology and domestic livestock, to act as placeholders for the human psyche in malleable realities. It is a metaphor for the consciousness of a present state, which is for her the act of ruminating. The work has been shown nationally in Baton Rouge Gallery, Ogden Museum of Art, and Southern Mississippi Museum of Art and LeMieux Gallery. Hart was featured in Juxtapoz magazine in 2025 after being awarded 'Best in Show' by Evan Pricco at Baton Rouge's Gallery Annual Surreal Salon exhibition. She lives and works in Covington, Louisiana.