Intermediate Painting: Color Mixing and Texture

Learn new ways to create paintings while experimenting with color systems and texture. Work from observation, memory, and imagination as you begin mixing colors using warm and cool color palettes. Explore brushstrokes, mark making, and value, and study color hue and saturation using a primary color wheel. Create a painting by combining methods for color mixing, color application, and texture learned throughout the class.

• Week 1: Begin with an outline of the approaches to color and texture that will be explored. Engage in painting exercises using warm and cool color palettes to explore color mixing, brushstrokes, and visual texture through mark making.
• Week 2: Continue painting using warm and cool color palettes. Create compositions from observation, exploring value and visual texture.
• Week 3: Referring to the primary color wheel, mix colors to create individual abstract color compositions. Experiment with hue, value, and saturation.
• Week 4: Experiment with mediums and surfaces to build up textures in a series of painting exercises. Continue to familiarize yourself with the primary color wheel.
• Week 5: Combine methods explored in previous sessions to create your own painting system for a final composition. Develop imagery from observation, memory, and imagination, integrating texture, in addition to warm and cool colors.
• Week 6: Finish working on your painting. Then, join classmates in a final group reflection on our work and a conversation about what we have learned.

Expand your art-making skills through guided, step-by-step instruction with expert teaching artists. Over multiple weeks, you will learn alongside other creative adults and delve deeply into the artistic process, explore new techniques, and build your practice.

This is an intermediate-level Studio Class. The curriculum and instruction are intended for adults with some prior experience. While all motivated learners are welcome, students with a foundational understanding of this medium will be most successful in keeping pace with the class and fully engaging in exercises and activities.

The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art in the museum’s galleries, hours of expert instruction, and access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.