Lapham Community Center and Senior Center of New Canaan, Inc.

Waveny Park        New Canaan, CT        Tel: 203-594-3620        Fax: 203-594-3628

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Fine Arts & Crafts

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Acrylic Painting	Crafts and Knitting	Beginning Watercolor
Intermediate Watercolor	Masterworks of American Art	Drawing Plants & Natural Forms

Acrylic Painting

8 Mondays, December 7 - February 22, 10 a.m. - noon, $40[$56] 13 Mondays, March 1 - May 24, 10:00 a.m. - noon, $65[$91]

Acrylic paints offer the ease of watercolor with the coverage of oil. Talented New Canaan artist, Angela Burns, will share her expertise in acrylics with anyone wishing to learn or improve their painting techniques. For a supply list, please call 594-3620.

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Crafts and Knitting

Crafts, most Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. - noon, Free Knitting, most Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. - noon, Free

Join Lu's group for crafts on Wednesdays or bring your knitting or crocheting projects (or learn to do it) on Thursdays.

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Beginning Watercolor

10 Thurs., Mar. 25 - May 27, 10:00 a.m. - noon, $70[$90]

Bill Szabo will provide step-by-step instruction in brush strokes, color mixing, and composition which will help you create realistic landscapes, seascapes, and still life paintings. Pre-created scenes are also available if you are not comfortable drawing.      Call 203-594-3620 for a supply list or to purchase a kit from Bill for $30.

Intermediate Watercolor

11 Fridays, December 4 - February 26, 10:00 a.m. - noon, $99 [$121] 12 Fridays, March 5 - May 28, 10:00 a.m. - noon, $108[$132]

Regina Custer is a talented painter and teacher with many devoted students. She teaches by demonstration and individual instruction.

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Masterworks of American Art

12 Thursdays, January 7 - March 25, 1:30 p.m.- 2:30 p.m., Free

Great painters capture a culture's hopes, anxieties, and aspirations. Professor William Kloss from the Smithsonian Institute will examine some of America's greatest paintings within the larger context of our country's history.

These programs are from The Teaching Company, an organization that films America's top professors. These very high-quality lectures will be shown on a big screen.

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Drawing Plants and other Natural Forms

6 Tuesdays, January 19 - February 23, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., $42 [$63] 6 Tuesdays, March 2 - April 6, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., $42[$63]

Kathie Milligan will teach you how to develop a natural, individual drawing style using forms from nature as your subject. Through close observation you will examine flowers and other forms in nature and explore each form's unique qualities. Movement, use of positive and negative space, exaggeration, choice of composition and employment of light are some of the means of imparting individual character to natural forms. Pencil, pen and ink, and charcoal are the materials that will lead us to our discoveries.      Please bring a 9" X 12" sketch pad, HB,2B and 4B pencils and an eraser to the first class.

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