Medium: Applicable to artists working in all mediums
Level: All levels welcome
Class Dates: Wednesdays, July 8 & 15, 2026
Class Times:
• 11:00 am-1:30 pm Pacific time
• 2:00 pm-4:30 pm Eastern time
• 7:00 pm-9:30 pm UK time
This class is a quick dive into the innovative ways Pierre Bonnard (1867 – 1947) used color in his bold and imaginative paintings. You will work in sketchbooks with mixed media from sketches and memory, just as Bonnard did. Making sketchbook studies is a great way to explore color for all painters of any medium.
Pierre Bonnard’s paintings of interiors and gardens with figures (and sometimes animals) come alive with color vibrations. His colors are not the local colors he would have seen in nature, rather his effervescent colors are used to organize the composition and elicit sensations of wonder and intimacy. The primary focus for this course is to explore the surprising ways Bonnard organized space with color and discover how his color interactions amplify our experience color which so effectively captures our imagination.
Note: This course is a prelude to my exciting upcoming series of three courses titled: Explore Color, Painter by Painter. This unique series of courses begins August 5th. Experience how painters through the ages have used color in their unique ways, painter by painter!
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$160.00
Open to all painters of any medium: Expand and break color habits by practicing other artists’ color ideas in sketchbooks with mixed media.
There’s more to color than color theory. Throughout history, painters have reimagined how to use color in their compositions, either rejecting color rules or integrating them into a new form of personal expression.
This series of three courses explores individual artist’s color concepts, moving through time chronologically. Each class session is dedicated to one artist, or a group of artists within one movement, such as Impressionism. Your color experiments will be made in the manner of the artist’s work being studied using a variety of media, including gouache, watercolor, artist crayons, and color pencils. Your subject matter will vary depending on the artist, including still life, landscape, portrait, or abstraction.
Pick and choose your course or take all three! Explore color through art history as you practice innovative ways to express ideas, feelings, and the natural world—painter by painter!
Barbara Fugate is a painter committed to making drawings and paintings that express life rather than imitate it. Discovering and experiencing “how things are” rather than “what they are” continues to inspire and drive Fugate’s art and art instruction. Fugate received a BFA from Western Kentucky University and a MFA in painting from Miami University of Ohio. Fugate has taught expressive drawing and painting classes and workshops in Seattle, as well as international workshops for over 25 years. Schools where Fugate has taught include Gage Academy of Art, Seattle Pacific University, Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts (Victoria, BC), La Conner Art Workshops, as well as her own Seattle Weekend Art Workshops. Fugate’s artwork is published in “The Best of Drawing and Sketching” by Terry Sullivan, “Landscape Painting” by Mitchell Albala, and Margaret Davidson’s book, “Contemporary Drawing”.
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