Color To Value in Painting
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia
Sat & Sun November 4-5
10 am - 4 pm
Learn how value and color are related so that you can make them work for your benefit to give your paintings the impact or subtlety that you want them to have. The strategies taught create a stronger awareness of presence, eye travel and illusionary space in your work. Instead of focusing on one or two finished pieces, several studies will be created. This technique driven workshop
is not media sensitive, watercolor, acrylic, and oils are all welcome.
Please use a medium that you are familiar working with.
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NEW* Composition in Painting
CURRENTLY FULL Please check with VMFA Studio for waitlist
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia
Thursdays October 5-Nov 30
10 am-1 pm
This class will explore how to create compelling compositions that promote a variety of focal points for your painting. Beginning with some simple cardstock collage work to quickly understand and manipulate different compositional models, students will then transition to painting their own subject matter. Exercises will include setting up your own still–life along with a photo reference of an arrangement of interior space designed by you. Students will also learn how existing compositional references can be manipulated to create new focal points and eye travel paths.
Students should be familiar with the painting medium they plan to work with.
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Introduction to Watercolor
FULL WITH A WAITLIST
Visual Arts Center
Richmond Virginia
9:30 a.m. - 12 noon
Get introduced to watercolors or refresh your knowledge of the medium. We’ll explore our materials, then cover application methods like wet–on–wet, glazes, blocks, resists and lifts. We’ll also cover work area set–up, composition set–up, lost and found edges, transferring imagery and methods for controlling the paint. With an emphasis on value as a way to produce convincing compositions, class discussions will touch on color theory, light, texture, and transparency. We’ll paint from direct observation and reference photos. Expect lots of one–on–one guidance and detailed demonstration from the instructor. Students will come away with a deeper understanding of this medium and its expressive possibilities.
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Value to Color in Painting
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia
Sat-Sun February 18-19, 2023
10am-4pm
Learn how value and color are related so that you can make them work for your benefit to give your paintings the impact or subtlety that you want them to have. The strategies taught create a stronger awareness of presence, eye travel and illusionary space in your work. Instead of focusing on one or two finished pieces, several studies will be created. This technique driven workshop is not media sensitive, watercolor, acrylic, and oils are all welcome. Please use a medium that you are familiar working with. Prerequisites: basic drawing and painting.
This is a good introductory/companion class to the Color Theory with the Masters class
listed below
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Color Theory with the Masters
Visual Arts Center
Richmond, Virginia
Tuesdays March 21th-April 25th (no class April 4th)
9:30-12 noon
Make knowledgeable color choices! Explore temperature, intensities, chromatic neutrals, color schemes, and limited palettes to help students construct harmonious color compositions based on personal expressive goals. Learn how masters from pre-Renaissance to modern times have worked with these same color challenges. Students will be expected to complete out of class assignments, and should have a working knowledge of their medium and the 12-step color wheel.
Explore color temperature, intensities, chromatic neutrals, color schemes, and limited palettes through the works of master painters. Then construct harmonious color compositions based on personal expressive goals.
This builds on knowledge taught in the Value to Color workshop listed above.
Check the Visual Arts Center website here for more information and to register.
Plein Air Painting Intensive
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia
Wednesdays May 10– 31st
9:30 am–12:30 pm (4 sessions)
Explore drawing and painting the landscape from direct observation.With guidance from the instructor, students develop a more fluid response to painting on location. Students need to provide their own plein air painting easel, stool, and painting supplies. Prerequisite: basic drawing & painting skills.
Click here for more information and to register (workshop 34)