'Red Studio' by Matisse Issy-les-Moulineaux, fall 1911

The Picture Space: A Brief Survey with Juliana Netschert

Short Class | Available

2129 S Street, NW Washington, DC 20008 United States
Room 3A
Intermediate - Advanced
11/1/2025-12/6/2025
10:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT on Sat
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$295.00

The Picture Space: A Brief Survey with Juliana Netschert

Short Class | Available

The Picture Space: a Brief Survey

This course offers the intermediate/advanced student an in-depth study of composition. The rectangle (of a drawing, painting...) is a window, framing a view and therefore creating a "picture plane". Students will be working from life, creating very deliberate picture planes as they study how others interpreted the very same issues (Da Vinci, Cezanne, Matisse, Bonnard...) 


15th century woodcut image demonstrating Albrecht Durer's window/perspective technique: 

  • WSS is closed the week of Thanksgiving, all classes will conclude the first week of December.

    Picture on display: Red Room by Matisse

  • Materials List - These are the materials you will need to bring with you for this class*

    • Watercolor (pan preferred - Kuratake colored sumi ink recommended) or acrylic (liquid ink, liquid paint preferred), or water-soluble pencils/crayons 
    • Water container
    • Watercolor Brushes
    • Cold-Press Watercolor paper
    • Drawing paper
    • Masking tape
    • 2B Pencil
    • White vinyl Eraser
    • Fine point colored markers or ultra fine black Sharpie marker
    • Ruler
    • Exacto knife
    • Paper towels

    * For the first class, the supplies you need are the following: exacto knife, ruler, 2B pencil, masking tape, cold press watercolor paper.

    For the remaining classes: 2B pencil, white vinyl eraser, cold press watercolor paper, pan
    watercolor ( Kuratake colored sumi ink recommended ), watercolor brushes, paper
    towels, fine-point colored markers, masking tape.






Juliana Netschert