Painting with Watercolor and Oil Pastels - Winter 2025-26

Cost: $400. 

Maximum: 5 students.

Instructor: Rahul Ray

Develop or refine your drawing and painting skills in this studio class. This class will be good for experienced students as well as beginners. You will learn perspectives of drawing an object three-dimensionally and coloring it with watercolor. Each person will be encouraged to develop their skill and style versus copying it from the instructor.

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BIO:

Dr. Rahul Ray, the instructor, is a Wayland resident and a retired professor of medicine at Boston University. He received his training in drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata, India. He works with watercolor, pencil/charcoal, acrylic, and oil, as well as mixed media.    

 Rahul has been teaching watercolor painting at the Wayland Council on Aging for the past two years.  He is also active in exhibiting his painting at various galleries in the New England area, including The Center for the Arts at Natick, Natick, MA where an art show, entitled ‘Father and Son Duo’ by Rahul and his son was recently hosted.  

 The following are examples of comments made by some of the past students.

 “I enjoyed all the classes, and learned so much from you: How to sketch looser and understand the perspective and how something is shaped to create movement. Painting: how to create shadows, how to paint a back drop that shows the difference between something in the forefront and something behind, like the shadows in the sails of the sailboats. And also importantly how to lift water/paint off the painting and still make the artwork look nice. So many positives!”  Sally D.

 “I took an 8-week watercolor class with Ray Rahul in the spring of 2023.  We painted a different still life arrangement each week.  My goals (as a beginner) for the class were simple.  I wanted to learn basic watercolor techniques and practice what I was learning with the guidance of a teacher.  I also wanted to learn how to really see the subjects and to try to develop my own style.  My goals were met and expectations exceeded.  Ray taught us many basic techniques and helped us learn how to see objects in terms of perspective, relative placement, shapes, shadows, values, etc.  I learned so much in his class and very much enjoyed the process.”  Susan C.

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MATERIALS:

Materials needed will include a NICO watercolor box (Amazon) and brush set and a watercolor pad, a roll of blue tape, and a large cardboard or foam-core board.

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