You understand the basics of color, but you still hesitate when choosing palettes ~ or wonder why some paintings sing while others fall flat. In this class, you’ll learn how to make intentional color decisions ~ so your paintings feel cohesive, expressive and confidently resolved. While the focus is on acrylic and oil painting, the color concepts explored are applicable across styles and approaches. Designed for intermediate painters, this course moves beyond formulas and rules to explore color as both a technical and intuitive language. Through guided discussion, visual examples and hands-on studio exploration, you’ll learn how to trust your eye, strengthen your color choices, and use color in a way that supports your personal voice ~ so your paintings feel authentic, emotionally resonant, and fully your own.

In this class, you will learn how to:

-Make intentional color choices rather than second-guessing

-Build strong, flexible palettes that support mood and meaning

-Create harmony, contrast, and visual tension through color

-Understand why certain color relationships work ~ and how to repeat them

-Use color to clarify your personal style and artistic voice

-Strengthen the emotional impact of your paintings

-Paint with greater confidence, clarity and freedom

If you’re ready to move beyond rules and begin using color as a confident, expressive extension of your own artistic voice, this class is for you.

Student Level

Intermediate

Supplies Students BrinG       

Class Materials List:

Paints (in either Oil or Acrylic), Please bring a minimum of these colors: Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Orange, Quinacridone Magenta (or Quinacridone Rose or Permanent Alizarin Crimson) , Thalo Green, Thalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Yellow Light, Titanium White (Or Permalba White). You’re welcome to bring additional favorite colors and you may even find you’ll want to add some later.

4 Smaller Painting Surfaces (small sizes such as 8 x 10, 11 x 14 for our studies.)You can use Multi-Media Board, Canvas Sheets, Panels or Boards, etc. Make sure they are pre-gessoed. We will need several of these for studies and exploration especially for first two weeks.

1 Large Canvas Panels or Boards (Larger sizes are best such as 16 x 20 or 20 x 24 or 24 x 30).

Brushes of various sizes. Bring what you have. I use filberts such as #2, #4 #6, #10.

Palette (Paper palettes that come in pads/sheets are fine or you can use some sort of plastic palette such as Masterson Sta-Wet Palette, or glass).

Palette Knives (various sizes and edges)

Paint Scrapers in various sizes. ( you can also use old credit cards or gift cards)

Photo references and ideas to work from. Bring several.

For Acrylics: Water & Container (such as old plastic cups or large yogurt containers).

For Oils: Odorless Mineral Spirits like Gamsol (NO TURPENTINE PLEASE) and a small container to use them in.

For Acrylics: Gloss Medium or Matte Medium

For Oils: Some sort of Medium such as Galkyd and Liquin or Cold Wax (what ever you’re most comfortable with)

Paper towels or rag towels (I like blue shop towels)

Apron & Plastic Gloves

Optional Items

An easel (Optional~ tabletop or standing) or you can use the flat tables provided in the room

Painters tape & clip board ( Optional ~ if needed to support your surface)

Gray Scale and Value Finder (Optional)

Sketchbook (optional)

Mark-Making Tools (Optional) such as markers, pencils, water soluble crayons, oil pastels, or oil sticks (R &F), etc, depending on your medium. Bring whatever you have to make marks with. Be creative. (Some additional tools I use for abstract work are: Stabilo Woodys, Lyra graphite sticks water-soluble, Marabu Mixed Media Art Crayons, Derwent Inktense Blocks, Caran d’Ache Classic Neocolor II Water-Soluble Pastels, Art Graf Water Soluble graphite blocks, Posca Maker Pens, R & F Oil Sticks, Brayers etc.

PLEASE NOTE: Students are required to bring a container for acrylic and/or oil paint waste and will need to take it home to dispose of properly. It CANNOT be poured down the drains at our new location. Students are also encouraged to wipe brushes clean.

CLASS CAPACITY

Any

Questions

Email or call instructor. jeanniepatyfineart@gmail.com or 303.885.9843

About the Instructor

Jeannie Paty is a contemporary acrylic, oil & mixed media painter and teacher. Her passion for sparking joy comes to life as she paints. For her, this means interpreting flowers, botanicals and places she has traveled in a lively, contemporary fashion through expressive brushwork, abstraction and sun-drenched color. Her work has been exhibited in numerous fine art galleries, juried art shows, outdoor art festivals.

Jeannie has taught adult art classes and workshops in the Denver Metro area at the Park Hill Art Club, the PACE Center in Parker, Evergreen Art Gallery in Evergreen and in Niwot. Jeannie hopes to share her extensive knowledge of painting and color with students who are eager to deepen their creative painting practices.

Over the years, she has discovered a lovely synergy and connection that comes through helping others to paint works that seek to uplift the human spirit and tap into their individual creativity.

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* NOTE: Doors open at 12:00 and close at 3:30 to give the instructor and students time to set up before class begins and to clean up at the end of each class.