Confident with Color-
Enliven and enrich your paintings with color techniques, from Renaissance through Modern Art.
Suitable for painters of every level, this three day workshop takes students where they are, beginning through advanced, and helps them integrate vibrant color in new and exciting ways in their work. We will learn techniques of traditional color glazing, scumbling, impressionistic visual color effects, fauvist expressionism, and modern art experimentalism either as a way to improve paintings brought to the workshop or with original work we create together. Become confident with color by learning more than 7 important color techniques which are each a roadway to mastery and find out which might best give you the tools to match your inner voice.
Required Supplies
Materials for three day Gage workshop
This workshop uses either acrylics or oils. Students bringing in their own work will use their own supplies. Students beginning new work can order their choice from list below at www.dickblick.com
The brushes: You need brushes soft enough to spread watery media and stiff enough to scoop up solid color. Bring brushes you have or get two long handled brushes and a palette knife.
Dick Blick Golden Taklon round size 8 or a variety of brushes
Dick Blick Golden Taklon flat size 8. Or a variety of brushes
Richeson plastic diamond trowel knife (2”) 03105-1002
The canvases:
(2) or more stretched canvas at least 8” X 10 ” or 9” X 12” . Student grade is fine. Dick Blick or other source is fine
The paints:
1. A set of acrylics for this class. Dick Blick set 01637-0249 gives you 20 colors. Consider getting an extra large tube of white.
OR
1. A set of nontoxic student grade oils for this class. Dick Blick set 00430-1099 gives you 20 colors. Consider getting an extra large tube of white.
2. Galkyd Gel ( 00456-1024). This is a stiff gel that makes oils dry quickly and converts them into liquid thin color. Make sure to get the GEL which is stiff and nonaromatic. We don’t want fumes in the classroom and Liquin or other liquid alkyd gel mediums create fumes.
NOTE: For both oils and acrylics you can clean up easily with non toxic media by using a combination of Dawn liquid dish soap and Murphy’s Oil Soap.
