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Laura Smith – Painting with a Limited Palette (Online)
Join Laura Smith for an illuminating online painting demonstration.
Date recorded: Friday, November 21, 2025
Join Laura Smith for an illuminating online painting demonstration. Laura will make a painting of a simple still life with an unusual limited palette. Using a very limited palette requires the artist to make cunning equivalents to color relationships as color matches are often impossible. One advantage is that you are more able to create not only harmony across the picture but a very particular light and atmosphere. Laura’s painting style centres around precise color mixing. Much time will be spent on slow, careful mixing with a palette knife.
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Laura Smith – Painting with a Limited Palette (Online)
Join Laura Smith for an illuminating online painting demonstration. Laura will make a painting of a simple still life with an unusual limited palette. Using a very limited palette requires the artist to make cunning equivalents to color relationships as color matches are often impossible. One advantage is that you are more able to create not only harmony across the picture but a very particular light and atmosphere. Laura’s painting style centres around precise color mixing. Much time will be spent on slow, careful mixing with a palette knife.
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Join Laura Smith for an illuminating online painting demonstration. Laura will make a painting of a simple still life with an unusual limited palette. Using a very limited palette requires the artist to make cunning equivalents to color relationships as color matches are often impossible. One advantage is that you are more able to create not only harmony across the picture but a very particular light and atmosphere. Laura’s painting style centres around precise color mixing. Much time will be spent on slow, careful mixing with a palette knife.
Laura Smith (b.1980) is a painter living and working in London. She completed her BA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2003 and went on to win the Richard Ford Award and the Drawing Prize during her studies on The Drawing Year at The Prince’s Drawing School (now the Royal Drawing School) in 2004. She graduated from her MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2012, winning the Clare Winsten Memorial Award. Laura was shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize in 2011 and has recently shown at the Mall Galleries, Jerwood Space, Flowers Gallery, Lubomirov-Easton and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Thank you for generously sharing this. Learned masses about carefully considering value changes and taking time to do this properly. Just need to put it into practice!!
I thoroughly enjoyed this class. Laura’s demo of tone/value was enlightening, and it is always fun to see the colors that are possible with a limited palette. Thankyou
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Thank you for generously sharing this. Learned masses about carefully considering value changes and taking time to do this properly. Just need to put it into practice!!
I thoroughly enjoyed this class. Laura’s demo of tone/value was enlightening, and it is always fun to see the colors that are possible with a limited palette. Thankyou
Loved this class. The use of a limited palette, and how to think through the values, and the mixing of the paints. Just a great class. Thank you!
Managed to see last half. Nice and clear instructions. Just lovely colors. Wow, I won a gift card. Thanks so much Martha.
Florence