It’s fun to look back at old paintings with fresh eyes. The details for the January 16th & 17th color workshop are now posted on the “Color Workshop and Info” page. Celebrate the New Year by treating yourself to a weekend of playing with paint! Happy Holidays!
In Richard Schmid’s book Alla Prima he writes “My Advice — my plea to you — is to do the charts for your sake. (Do not use mine.) … Stay alert and see what is happening, not only on your palette, but within yourself.” Thank you, Richard Schmid, for the inspiration to go back to …
Focus was on actual use of color charts and color scheme choices as they apply to capturing the atmospheric light conditions. I used the collection of small Maryland paintings from September as examples of changing light throughout the day as well as comparing the light and color of cloudy days as compared to sunny days. …
September Color Workshop: Exploring the three-color palettes led to several important clarifications and a major change in the curriculum for the future color workshops: After creating the color charts for each of the three color palettes it became clear that the warm palette was lacking in the variety of purples produced and the cool palette …
I don’t ask my students to take the time to create new color wheels if I don’t do it myself. This afternoon I made sample color wheels in both watercolor and oil, both from a limited palette of only three colors. For the watercolor wheel I used Winsor Newton Artists’ Water Colors: New Gamboge, Quinacridone …
Exploring the various aspects of Color Theory, though fascinating to some, is simply a mental exercise that will not improve your painting unless it is put into practice. At first it takes a conscious (and for me, rather painful) effort to break old habits and to go back to a new beginning. Two …