Core Color: Color & Composition
In Core Color: Color and Composition, students will put foundational color theory principles to work to create their own dynamic compositions. We will identify, analyze and practice the chromatic and compositional strategies of great painters from the past and present, building the skills and instincts we will use in our culminating paintings. Along the way, we will zoom in on three genres of painting, each strategically paired with a palette highlighting a topic in color theory (figure in environment/complementary palette; cityscape/triadic palette; and nocturne/analogous palette).
Required Supplies
- Blick Essentials Value Brush Set - round brushes, white nylon, set of 12
- one cheap flat brush, ~1 inch wide
- one cheap flat brush, ~2 inches wide
- glass palette
- 2 palette knives - Blick brand medium spade 59 or similar
- Stanley mini razor blade scraper and replacement blades
- roll of paper towels or supply of rags
- quart takeout container for brush rinsing
- roll of parchment paper
- scissors
- 2b or 4b pencil
- white eraser
- Koh-I-Noor Polycolor Dry Color Pencil, Set of 12 Colors (or colored pencil set of your preference with same color range)
- transparent plastic ruler
- gesso of your choice—I suggest tri-art sludge
- If your gesso does not come in a squeezable bottle, an empty, cleaned plastic squeeze bottle such as for dawn dish soap, honey, ketchup, etc.
- 1 cradled panel, 16”x20”
- 1 roll of blue painter’s tape
- 1 pack of white card stock
- Canson XL Mixed Media paper pad, 11x14”
- mod podge or elmer’s glue
- Golden Heavy Body Acrylic paint (NOT “GOLDEN OPEN!”) in the following colors:
- 2 tubes titanium white
- 1 tube cadmium red light
- 1 tube pthalo green (yellow hue)
- 1 tube cadmium orange
- 1 tube ultramarine blue
- 1 tube cadmium yellow
- 1 tube yellow ochre
- 1 tube quinacridone magenta
- 1 tube teal
- 1 tube raw umber
Kate Powell
Kate Powell is an artist living and working in Seattle, Washington. Kate is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Low-Residency MFA...