Wednesday, 5:30-8pm
October 16, 23, 30 and November 6
Non-Member: $300
Member: $270
This LIVE ONLINE class is for beginning to experienced painters of wet media (watercolor, oil, acrylic, gouache) who want to mix clean, accurate color, experiment with color, mix harmonious colors, develop their individual color sensitivity, and use color to convey emotion and mood in their work. Learn to see and use color intentionally to create beautiful paintings. We will focus on learning about how our pigments work, experiment with different palettes, and explore how color affects our perception and emotions. We will look at how different artists use color in their paintings to convey their message, how value does the work, and how color gets the credit. This is a live hands-on class! We will mix and apply colors in every session, working from dark to light values, mixing from the brightest saturated colors to the subtle colorful grays.
This session can stand alone -or you can continue to study color with Mary for all three sessions as classes are also progressive, building on the fundamentals by developing and expanding individual skills.
Recordings of Zoom classes will be available for 30 days after the class ends, so students have access to the recordings for the following month.
We will meet live online in an interactive format on Zoom, the link will be provided each week via email. Students need a personal device (smart phone, tablet, laptop, desktop computer) with camera & audio capability.
*You will register through the Artists Association of Nantucket. Weekly sessions will be managed by Mary Byrom.
We will meet LIVE ONLINE in an interactive format on Zoom on Wednesday evenings.
MATERIALS LIST
PAINTS
Acrylic, oil, gouache, watercolor
Bring all tubes of paint that you have on hand and we will go through them and choose
the limited palette colors needed for the different lessons.
If you do not own any paint at this time, purchase the #2 expanded palette colors on my
materials page on my website https://marybyrom.com/info/classesandworkshops/
materials/ . Buy professional grade paint!
We will discuss additional colors and supplies in the first class.
BRUSHES
Bring a selection of brushes brights flats rounds natural bristle brushes or synthetics if
you have them.
Sables, soft brushes and synthetics are fine if you paint with gouache or watercolor.
Brush list on my materials page is here: https://marybyrom.com/info/
classesandworkshops/materials/
In the first class: We will discuss brushes that you need to use.
SUBSTRATES
We will be painting lots of small color tests and color experiments in this class.
For acrylics and oils use gessoed mat board, gessoed card stock, gessoed canvas
paper or canvas paper pad. Any stiff heavy paper will work if it is gessoed on front and
back with 1 coat of gesso. Paper weight - 98 pound and heavier is fine.
You do not have to use real heavy paper for gouache. You can paint on 98 pound paper
or 140 lb. watercolor paper. If you already own watercolor paper, use that.
SKETCHBOOK
My students find that keeping their color tests in one place, inside a sketchbook helps
them keep track of them for future use.
If you do not own a sketchbook a good one to start with is the Canson multimedia 98 lb
paper. I use an 11x14 size for all my color tests. I also use Arches , Khadi and
Kilimanjaro,140 lb, 100 % cotton paper for color tests which I then glue into my 11x14”
Canson sketchbook.
If you have other heavy weight paper you like to use please feel free to use it. You can
gesso the pages if you are using oils. Acrylic on watercolor or multimedia paper should
be fine without gesso.
SIZE: You can use any size sketchbook you prefer. Some students in the past painted
all their colors mixes in small 4X4” sketchbooks (140 lb paper) so they could take the
small book with them on plein air painting excursions. They used this book for color
mixing formulas while out doors painting on location.