Color II – Limiting, Layering and Claiming Your Colors

ALL these colors were mixed with just three paints!

Do you want to get to know color even better?

If the Get Intimate with Color workshop was the introduction and first date in your relationship with color and you are wondering:  now what?  I have more information, experience and opportunity for exploration to share – so you and color can go to the next level together.

• Have you taken what you learned in the first workshop into your regular painting practice, but have the sense there’s more to working with color?
• Even though you paint on a regular basis, do you feel like mixing or finding the “right” color can still elude you?
• Are you ready to expand your options with different ways we can combine colors/paints in watercolor – beyond mixing on the palette?
• Do you ever have the sense there is something missing in your painting – that it’s not quite “there” with color and wonder what to do?
• Does having a deeper sense what color has to say in your paintings sound intriguing?
• Or are you just looking for another weekend of fun working with color – in watercolor?

This workshop has all of this in store for you.  

These roses were painted using the same three colors!

We will spend the first day working with a very limited palette of three paints/pigments.  There is an unexpected freedom that I’ve found in limiting myself to just three, four or six paints in a whole painting.  When attempting to mix a needed color there is only a few places to look. Doing this will help you see the color in color and will make mixing color amongst any paints easier.  I promise you will be amazed by the magic of how color mixing works and your painting expereince will not be the same after spending a whole day with just three colors.

Experience how layering , as I did with these grape, offers its own subtle and special qualities to your paintings.

I’ve heard watercolorists can be mixers or layer-ers.  I am definitely a mixer – though my paintings would not be what they are without using layers of pigment.  Layering can be an intentional way to start out in order to gain a different effect than mixing would provide, or a way to make adjustments to color when your first attempt isn’t what you were hoping for. Layering brings richness, depth, definition – layering can even lighten parts of your paintings with certain pigments.  You will see the beautiful results you can get from layering color in watercolor.

Color carries energy – color is energy.  Each particular color reflects a portion of the light spectrum.  As such it brings with it a different vibration which elicits varying responses and meanings from each of us – though some colors have universal meanings.

We will spend the last afternoon painting simple patterns (that I will provide) in various colors and combinations.  You will have the opportunity to use your particular “voice” as it is expressed through color.   I’m certain we will be surprised and delighted by what we can glean from each others’ creations.  Color has so much more to tell us beyond “warm” and “cool.”  In the process you will define or refine your personal palette.

Pre-requisite:  The 2-day Color I – Get Intimate with  Color workshop, or contact me so we can decide, based on your previous expereince, if it makes sense for you to take this workshop if not.

In-person workshops are held in a beautiful new studio surrounded by my art in Bel Marin Keyes – southern Novato, CA.

Limited to 10 students.

Schedule:

In-Person Dates:  TBD – late summer, early fall 2024 – 9:45-4:00

If you are unable to come to the workshop and let me know two weeks in advance, you can either apply the fee to a future workshop or I can refund you. If you cancel within 2 weeks and I have someone who can take your place, you can apply your fee to a future workshop.  If I cannot fill your spot, the fee is not refunded.

If you paid for a workshop with a credit card, the credit card transaction fees will not be included in the refund.
Thank you so much for your understanding.