I held a one day color workshop at the Capital Art Center at 1200 S Street in Sacramento last year, and have decided to post it for any of you who might like to give it a go. It's a great little review for those who have studied color, but also for beginners who need to learn more about mixing color on the palette.
Some of the information I got out of the book, "How to See Color and Paint it" by Arthur Stern. The rest I have picked up while working with Anita Wolff, Brigitte Curt and Jim Smyth. http://www.anitawolff.net/ http://www.classart.org/
STEP ONE: THE COLOR WHEEL
Making a color wheel may seem like a waste of time, but it is far from that. While making your own color wheel, you gain the experience of learning for yourself how the color wheel works. It is an amazing tool, when you understand it, and will serve you well if you want to master the art of painting.
In the workshop we used canvas (with gesso), and I used a black marker to draw the wheel before we painted the colors that we mixed onto the wheel. This worked great. Otherwise just use a canvas tablet that is large enough to get a good amount of mixed paint into each piece of pie or just a regular stretched canvas. Paper will not work well and absorb your beautiful colors!
Some of the information I got out of the book, "How to See Color and Paint it" by Arthur Stern. The rest I have picked up while working with Anita Wolff, Brigitte Curt and Jim Smyth. http://www.anitawolff.net/ http://www.classart.org/
STEP ONE: THE COLOR WHEEL
Making a color wheel may seem like a waste of time, but it is far from that. While making your own color wheel, you gain the experience of learning for yourself how the color wheel works. It is an amazing tool, when you understand it, and will serve you well if you want to master the art of painting.
In the workshop we used canvas (with gesso), and I used a black marker to draw the wheel before we painted the colors that we mixed onto the wheel. This worked great. Otherwise just use a canvas tablet that is large enough to get a good amount of mixed paint into each piece of pie or just a regular stretched canvas. Paper will not work well and absorb your beautiful colors!
- paint tubes
- palette set up
- mixing colors
- spectrum - The range or scale of colors on the Color Wheel (red, orange, green, blue and violet.
Making a Color Wheel (Spectrum Colors)
*Keep in mind when mixing two colors, you do not use the same amount of paint for each color, you must mix the two until you get the correct hue.
- RED Mix Cadmium Red Light & Alizarin Crimson
- RED-ORANGE Cadmium Red Light
- ORANGE Cadmium Red Orange
- YELLOW-ORANGE Mix Cadmium Orange & Cadmium Yellow Pale
- YELLOW Cadmium Yellow Pale (or light)
- YELLOW-GREEN Mix Cadmium Yellow Pale and Phthalo Green
- GREEN Mix Phthalo Green & a lot of Cadmium Yellow Pale
- BLUE-GREEN Mix Phthalo Green & Phthalo Blue + a touch of Alizarin Crimson + a hint of White
- BLUE Mix Phthalo Blue & Ultramarine Blue + a hint of White
- BLUE-VIOLET Mix Ultramarine Blue + a touch of Alizarin Crimson + a hint of White
- VIOLET Mix Ultramarine Blue & Alizarin Crimson + a hint of White
- RED-VIOLET Mix Alizarin Crimson + a hint of White
Next, we will learn to mix Neutrals and Complements to create beautiful grays in our paintings!
I will also continue to give an account of my time spent with Jim Smyth and Brigitte Curt at the Plein Air painting workshop in Provence, so stay tuned!
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