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Date: September 4th, 5th, 6th
Times: 10am - 4pm w/ 1hr lunch
Level: All
Membership Price: $310 (Members can use code MEMBERS10 upon checkout to receive 10% off)
Random: $20 materials fee to be paid to the instructor at class. Fee covers some paper, acrylic medium and additional colors.
Workshop Description:
Through presentations, live demonstrations, and practical exercises, learn how to make fast, accurate color decisions in the field (or the studio.) The extensive, eye-opening color mixing exercises will help you more clearly see subtle variations in hue, value, and saturation - including Prismatic, muted hues, and chromatic grays - thereby improving your skill and confidence in your plein air work.
Students will leave having completed 3 - 9 split complement color charts (or having mixed 132 - 396 colors!) over the course of a three day session. You will gain permanent clarity and understanding of color - money-back guaranteed!
About the Instructor:
award-winning artist, educator and curator, Helen Dannelly is a painter and sculptor who studied painting and printmaking at San Francisco State, and sculpture at University of Minnesota and Diablo Valley College. Dannelly is Curator at the ForsheyGallery in downtown Chicago where she curates four-five exhibitions annually. She Co-Founded Catalyst Art Lab, an online artists' membership community and art school. Workshops she offers in painting, color-theory, and mixed-media sculpture are both online and at various in-person venues such as PaintSpace NOLA in New Orleans, the Hui No‘eau Visual Art Center on Maui, Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, Asilomar Conference and Retreat Center in Pacific Grove, CA, Be-Artz in southwest France, and Ballinglen Arts Foundation in County Mayo, Ireland.
Required Materials:
Non-Paint Materials –
One #8 or #10 flat brush
2 Small palette knives
Large pad of palette paper (18” x 24” is ideal but slightly smaller will suffice)
Pencil
1 or 2 empty 8oz or larger jars for water
5 sheets Strathmore 400 Series Watercolor Paper 22" x 30” 140lb
Paint Materials – Golden Heavy Body acrylic paint (recommended)
Cadmium Yellow Light or Benzimidazolone Yellow light
Cadmium Yellow (medium OR dark)
Cadmium Red Light or Pyrole Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue (Green shade)
Titanium White (5 oz. tube!)
***Many of the materials listed here can be found at The Nook Mendocino, located on the Mendocino Art Center’s campus. Please contact Education for a discount (education@mendocinoartcenter.org) ***
Optional Materials: Apron, Notebook