Grace A. Flott – How to Paint a Lemon (Online)

Date: Thursday, December 15, 2022
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM Pacific Time (6:00-7:00 PM Eastern Time/11:00 PM-12:00 AM London Time)

Why is yellow the most confounding color? This sunshine hue reflects so much light that it makes our eyes work hard to see all its subtle variations. In this alla prima painting demonstration, I will show you my method for capturing this super saturated color with a focus on chroma control, structural planes, and a simple palette.

Grace Athena Flott (b. 1990) is a figurative realist painter from Spokane, Washington. Southwest Arts Magazine awarded her First Place in Artistic Excellence in January 2022. Major exhibitions include Figurativas 2021at the Museum of Modern European Art (MEAM), Barcelona, Spain; Shades of Blue at Equity Gallery, NYC, NY, 2021; and recurring exhibitions at Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA, 2019, 2020, 2021. A finalist in the 2020 BP Portrait Award and Art Renewal Center competitions, her work has appeared in Fine Art Connoisseur, The Artist’s Magazine, Realism Today, Seattle Refinedand numerous print and online journals. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Juliette Aristides Atelier. Her first solo show Exposure Therapy exhibited in May 2022 at Figure|Ground Gallery in Seattle, WA. Grace has been an artist-in-residence at The Hive (Spokane, WA).

Grace is currently a teaching artist with Terracotta, Gage Academy adult and youth programs (since 2016), AIGA (since 2018), and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (since 2019), in addition to teaching privately online.

Her work is held in public and private collections internationally.