"Glass and Transparent Objects in All Their Simplicity" an online step-by-step demonstration with Alex Sharma (July 25, 2025)
WHEN:
90-MINUTES
Friday, July 25, 2025
(10am to 11:30am EST)
Your ticket includes access to the LIVE demo via ZOOM plus a copy of the recording, good to re-watch as many times as you'd like for 30 days!
Whether painting glass or transparent objects in an abstract or realistic form, obtaining the illusion of transparency can transform your scene, provide focus, and impact—as well as being very satisfying. Alex will be painting in watercolor using methods that can easily be applied to oils or acrylics as she will explain and demonstrate. The illusion of glass is obtained through strong value changes and attention to shapes and edges. Alex will demonstrate all of this as she paints from a set up that will be in view as she paints. You will see how colors and shapes are reflected into the glass surface and how to use line and shape to achieve transparency.
Alex will use the basic primaries colors:
reds
blues
yellows
a green
burnt umber
NOTE:
Please be sure to Download & Sign-Up for Zoom ahead of time, it's free! We will send you the Link to the session the day before the session. Late registrations will receive the link the morning of the session. You will be able to join the waiting room at 9:30am to ensure you are set up and ready to go. Attendees will receive a copy of the video on Monday afternoon following the demonstration, which will be good to re-watch as many times as you want for up to 30 days.
While this is a demonstration, and not a class, we do encourage you to ask questions throughout the demonstration because odds are if you're thinking it, someone else is too. We ask all participants to stay muted unless asking a question so that we don't pick up any background noise and ensure participants can hear and that our recording is clear as well.
SKILL LEVEL:
This class is perfect for students of any level.
REFUND POLICY:
Ticket purchases to Art League of Hilton Head events are final. Credits or Refunds will not be given for missed or classes/workshops.
If a class or workshop is canceled by Art League of Hilton Head a full refund will be given.
| Materials Included: | No materials are provided by Art League of Hilton Head for this demonstration. |
| Requirements: |
SUPPLY LIST: Alex will be using the above colors in watercolor for this demo, however the methods are the same for all media. She recommends you use similar colors in the medium of your choice. Also if you plan on painting along, be sure to have the surface medium of your choice, and whatever other basic tools/supplies you need to use your medium. QUESTIONS? Please Email: Academy@ArtLeagueHHI.org |
| Instructor: | Alex Sharma |
| Instructor Bio: |  Born into a family of artists, ALEXANDRA SHARMA learned early a unique awareness of form and space that is manifest in her work. A painter, print maker, sculptor, and art professor, Alexandra has a Fine Arts degree and has studied at the Sorbonne, France, and Oxford University, England. Her work spans over twenty-five years and she is known for unique visual imagery in her paintings and her ability to capture the moment as she works primarily en plein air. Alexandra is a founding member of the Multi Media Arts Guild, Kingston, Canada, and member of Hilton Head Art League, Apple Pie Painters, Northview Group of Artists, and a lifetime member of the American art honorary, Delta Phi Delta. Alexandra exhibits regularly at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn, HHI Visit Alex Sharma's Website |
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