Dates: Fridays, October 11, October 25, November 8 & November 22, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM-12:15 PM Pacific Time, 1:00-3:15 PM Eastern Time, 6:00-8:15 PM London Time
Level: This is not a class for first-time painters (those who have never painted or mixed color at all); however, it is ideally suited for intermediate to advanced painters who want to better understand unfied color and light.
Medium: Open to painters in all mediums. (Acrylic painters should know how to manage acrylic’s rapid drying time, how to blend with glazing and/or scumbling, and have a Sta-Wet palette.)
When we observe the myriad colors of the natural world, we never think, Those colors just don’t look harmonious! Natural light and color never fail to be convincing. But in the artificial world of our pigment-based paintings, how do we maintain a similar sense of harmony and color cohesion? Color grouping is a way of maintaining that harmony by organizing colors into a limited number of groups or families. Color grouping is a simple practice that makes it easier to maintain unified light and color in your paintings. Through critique, presentations, and demonstrations, Mitchell will show you how color grouping works, and cover these topics:
• how color groups tie in to the overall color strategy (hue interactions, value contrasts and saturation levels)
• how to evaluate subjects (from life or photos) in terms of color grouping
• how to create “color swatch” studies of your color groups
• how to organize color groups into major and minor color chords
• how to begin a painting with a color group block-in
