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Watercolor: The Power of Negative Painting

Chicago Botanic Garden

4.4 148 reviews

Discover the craft of negative painting to make plants, flowers, and natural forms emerge from their surroundings. Learn to build depth, unity, and clarity while mastering control of lost and found edges. These techniques add a distinctive, dynamic quality to your watercolor work, growing both composition and visual impact. Ideal for artists ready to lift their skills.

Intermediate
18 and older
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1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
12 hours over 4 sessions

Watercolor: The Power of Negative Painting

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Master the distinctive painting technique of "negative" or "back" painting, allowing your botanical subjects to spring vividly from their surrounding environment. This method imparts striking unity, layered depth, and visual clarity to your compositions. Throughout the course, you'll develop your ability to manipulate "lost" and "found" edges, a crucial skill for achieving sophisticated, professional-looking results in your artwork.

A complete list of required materials will be provided prior to the first class session.

The School's CEUs equal 12 hours, credited as an ART elective.

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Refund requests must be submitted to [email protected] 2 business days prior to the program’s start date and time. The registration fee will be refunded less a 15% processing charge. A refund is issued in the form of a credit on file (to be used for future programs).

Refund requests submitted less than 48 hours prior to a program start date are non-transferable and are not eligible for a refund.

Fees are nonrefundable and nontransferable on and after the program’s start date. We cannot refund fees requested on or after the start date of a program or for sessions missed due to student illness or other personal situations.

Registration fees for courses grouped and priced as a series will be considered one program and subject to all of the above guidelines. A refund request must be received prior to the start date of the series' first class session and will subsequently cancel your registration in every session of the series.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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Chicago Botanic Garden

The Chicago Botanic Garden is a world-renowned living museum and conservation science center that offers multiple unique nature courses spread throughout 26 gardens and four natural areas on 385 acres.

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