Our Waterways, Drawing and Painting Water (Bushwick Inlet Park)

Please join us at the Bushwick Inlet Park Community Center for an afternoon of painting with watercolors.

“Environmental Science + Art” FBIP 2024 Saturday class series:

We will be learning about salt marshes, the abundance of life, oyster monitoring with BIP, tides and currents of the East River, CSO

We will cover:

• Tides & currents
• Local marine wildlife
• Plankton, oxygen – stewards of the waterways
• NY NJ estuary
• CSOs
• Oysters as sentinels of clean water & Billion Oyster Project
• Pollution in the past and how clean and vibrant our waterway have become
• Exposure to nature boosts our mood/parks are essential to our urban lives

Art Project: After several exercises, you’ll paint an urban skyline sunset reflected in the water.

Materials: Mixed media paper, drawing pencils, erasers, black fine liner markers, watercolors, brushes, palettes.

A 15-minute slide presentation on the East River Waterfront is followed by a demonstration of the techniques required. Then materials will be distributed. Individual instruction will follow.

Skills we’ll cover are wet in wet and wet on dry watercolor, one-point perspective, using liquid frisket (masking fluid), color layering, and other watercolor basics. Beginners to advanced welcome.

Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park will provide art supplies, but feel free to bring your own (if you have!) for this guided art project for beginners and artists of all levels. Materials provided will include include paper, watercolors, colored pencils, and other basic drawing supplies.

If you’d like to bring your own, we recommend:

• multimedia or watercolor paper
• watercolor paints
• pencil, eraser, ruler, tape (for masking edges)
• colored pencils, markers, or pens

No experience necessary.

Instructor Monica Schroeder is a professional scientific illustrator. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, countless textbooks, natural history museum exhibitions, and on the TV Show Jeopardy.

She has been an adult art instructor since 2018. monbertkayak@gmail.com

* Registration required.

* Please register only if you plan to actually attend. The class size is small to ensure an intimate hands on learning experience.

Children 14 and over (high school students) are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.