Painting Autumn in the Mountains with Watercolors

Beginning & Intermediate
September 27, 2025—1 Session (Saturday)
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Instructor: Joyce Clair
Class Fee: $60.00 non-members + $25.00 supply fee
              $54.00 BRMAA members + $25.00 supply fee
Join artist and instructor Joyce Clair and learn how to paint autumn mountain landscapes with watercolors. This is a good introduction to watercolor painting or for improving your skills with step-by-step instructions. All the supplies needed to complete an 8x10 painting framed in a 11x14 mat will be provided. Other techniques that will be discussed are basic color theory, color mixing, drawing trees, creating texture techniques, painting on wet and dry paper, landscape perspective, proper supplies, and other resources. 
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Painting Autumn in the Mountains with Watercolors-Registration
Call (706) 632-2144 for questions regarding this course and registration.  Payment is required to register for BRMAA courses. You may pay via PayPal above, over the phone, or visit The Art Center located at 420 West Main Street, Blue Ridge, GA 30513 to pay in person. 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR JOYCE CLAIR

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    Joyce Clair has a passion for painting with transparent watercolors. Most of her paintings are completed outdoors or “en plein air” in the beautiful north Georgia mountains. She initiated the “Plein Air Painters of Hiawassee Georgia,” a group of local painters who paint together regularly. Join our group on face book if interested in participating.
   Her representational impressionist style is influenced by watercolor master, Ed Whitney (1891-1987). Joyce studied watercolor painting for two years under Dr. Morris Green of the Maryland Institute of Art. Dr. Green was a former student of watercolor master, Ed Whitney. She also attended watercolor workshops with Zoltan Szabo, Tom Lynch, Frank Webb, and Skip Lawrence, many of whom studied under Ed Whitney as well. Joyce also took drawing and photography classes at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C.
   Joyce grew up in Pennsylvania and lived in Maryland and Texas before moving to Georgia. Since retiring from her Nurse Practitioner career, Joyce devotes most of her time to painting and teaching watercolor, alcohol inks, and drawing. She teaches private and group classes at Artworks in Hiawassee, Georgia, Murphy Art Center in North Carolina, Blue Ridge Mountains Art Center in Blue Ridge, Georgia, Gilmer Arts in Ellijay, Georgia, and ICL at Young Harris College, Young Harris, Georgia .    
   Visit “Joyce Clair Art” on Facebook to view recent works and class notices. Her works may also be viewed at www.fineartamerica.com and at the Murphy Art Center, Murphy, North Carolina.