Fall 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

Beginner’s Watercolor with The Art Studio (B211)

B – Fine Arts

Students learn a variety of watercolor techniques and how to apply them to a painting. Techniques include washes, wet-on-wet brushwork, dry brushwork, glazing and color mixing. Students practice techniques during each class completing a small example of each, then take what they learned to create a complete painting. A supply list is provided for students to purchase before class starts. Offered in partnership with The Art Studio, the arts education center of New Castle County’s Department of Community Services.

Please note that this course requires an additional fee of $49. Participants receive a payment link from OLLI prior to the first class.

This class meets at The Art Studio, the arts education center of New Castle County’s Department of Community Services, located at 310 Kiamenski Road, Wilmington.

This offering meets for a total of 5 session(s).

INSTRUCTORS: Karen Berstler, Nicole Sexton

BERSTLER, KAREN — Has been drawing and painting for as long as she can remember. Fascinated with people, their personal stories and what makes us all tick as human beings. Loves creating paintings that are both fun and meaningful, sharing them with the world and, hopefully, leaving the space she has occupied a bit more beautiful than it was before she arrived. (B211, B214, B294, B347)

SEXTON, NICOLE — Coordinator for The Art Studio of the New Castle County Department of Community Services. (B211, B214, B222, B294, B343, B344, B345, B346, B347)

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