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Date: Wednesdays, August 6-27, 2025
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm Pacific Time (4:00-6:00 pm Eastern Time/9:00-11:00 pm London Time)
Level: All
Medium: Oil, water soluble oils or acrylics (Barbara will work in oils)
Week 1 – Learning to judge the value equivalency of colors. Having a strong value structure in your painting is very important but unless you are painting in grayscale you need to be able to translate that value in color.
Week 2 – Understanding the importance of color temperature. It is generally accepted that a warm light source creates cooler shadow colors while a cool light source will create warmer shadow colors. If you are finding your paintings feel “muddy”, it may be the temperature relationships that are off.
Week 3 – Using transparent v. opaque pigments correctly. Transparent pigments set back, and opaque pigments feel solid and set forward in your painting.
Week 4 – Working with complimentary colors to create beautiful neutrals. The importance of less intense tones in your painting is the trick to creating colors that “pop”.
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Barbara Schilling grew up in a small farming community on the East side of the state. She moved to Grand Rapids in 1973 to attend Kendall School of Design. She has been here ever since.
In one discipline or another she has been involved with art her entire life. Barbara worked as a Restoration Artist and Conservator for over 35 Years. Now retired from Restoration she dedicates her time to her own art.
As an oil painter her work has been strongly influenced by the bold, impressionist art of Contemporary Russian painters. As a result, her own painting has become bolder and more expressionistic.
“Painting to me is about capturing the energy of a subject. I love strong textures, thick paint and vibrant colors.
I search to find a balance between the abstract and the representational. I love the tactile feel of pushing thick paint around and layering juxtaposing color notes. I have moved away from a more literal translation of my subject to a more emotional response.”
Barbara is a signature member of Oil Painters of America (OPA), and American Impressionists Society (AIS).
She is represented by Frames Unlimited Galleries in Michigan and Ohio Mary Williams Fine Art in Boulder, Colorado Synchronicity Gallery in Glen Arbor, Michigan Eisele Fine Art Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio Lovetts Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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