Color Worlds: Color in Context (Online Course) Winter 2025 w/ Samantha Haring
February 1 to February 22 (Saturdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/gLoI1A9z5jM
Course Description
Color is an incredibly powerful element of art. It can set the tone in painting, create a charged sense of atmosphere, and change the way we perceive everyday objects. By focusing on temperature and value, we can create color worlds grounded in reality that have an emotional resonance all their own. Through a series of guided exercises, we’ll look at how shifting tonal relationships allow you to alter the mood and meaning of a painting.
This course will cover color mixing with four different kinds of limited palettes, seeing color relationships in context, and experimental strategies for enhancing the way you think about color in your own studio practice.
Course Outline
Week 1: Complementary color palettes, finding color in neutrals
Week 2: “Zorn palette”, making black look blue in context
Week 3: Warm primary palette, finding nuance in quieter earth tones
Week 4: Synthetic primary palette, turning up the saturation to eleven
Course Materials
You’ll need a double primary palette (a warm and a cool each of red, yellow, and blue), plus the following: Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Venetian Red, Raw Umber, Ivory Black.
Suggested primary colors: Bismuth Yellow, Cadmium Yellow medium, Cadmium Red Light, Quinacridone Red, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue
You are welcome to supplement these with any other colors that you use regularly.
I’ll be demoing with oils, but please feel free to use whatever kind of paint you prefer.
Whenever possible, choose artist grade paints and avoid anything that says “hue”.
Brushes: a range of sizes in flats and rounds (at least one small, medium, and large is a good place to start)
Palette with enough surface area to mix a range of colors and values (16x20” is a good size)
Palette knife for mixing color on the palette
Enough ready-to-paint surfaces to make 4 color charts (one per week) and 4 paintings (size of your choice). Any surfaces you prefer (canvas, panel, linen, etc) are welcome.
Rags or paper towels
Solvents and medium of your choice, as needed
February 1 to February 22 (Saturdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/gLoI1A9z5jM
Course Description
Color is an incredibly powerful element of art. It can set the tone in painting, create a charged sense of atmosphere, and change the way we perceive everyday objects. By focusing on temperature and value, we can create color worlds grounded in reality that have an emotional resonance all their own. Through a series of guided exercises, we’ll look at how shifting tonal relationships allow you to alter the mood and meaning of a painting.
This course will cover color mixing with four different kinds of limited palettes, seeing color relationships in context, and experimental strategies for enhancing the way you think about color in your own studio practice.
Course Outline
Week 1: Complementary color palettes, finding color in neutrals
Week 2: “Zorn palette”, making black look blue in context
Week 3: Warm primary palette, finding nuance in quieter earth tones
Week 4: Synthetic primary palette, turning up the saturation to eleven
Course Materials
You’ll need a double primary palette (a warm and a cool each of red, yellow, and blue), plus the following: Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Venetian Red, Raw Umber, Ivory Black.
Suggested primary colors: Bismuth Yellow, Cadmium Yellow medium, Cadmium Red Light, Quinacridone Red, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue
You are welcome to supplement these with any other colors that you use regularly.
I’ll be demoing with oils, but please feel free to use whatever kind of paint you prefer.
Whenever possible, choose artist grade paints and avoid anything that says “hue”.
Brushes: a range of sizes in flats and rounds (at least one small, medium, and large is a good place to start)
Palette with enough surface area to mix a range of colors and values (16x20” is a good size)
Palette knife for mixing color on the palette
Enough ready-to-paint surfaces to make 4 color charts (one per week) and 4 paintings (size of your choice). Any surfaces you prefer (canvas, panel, linen, etc) are welcome.
Rags or paper towels
Solvents and medium of your choice, as needed
February 1 to February 22 (Saturdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/gLoI1A9z5jM
Course Description
Color is an incredibly powerful element of art. It can set the tone in painting, create a charged sense of atmosphere, and change the way we perceive everyday objects. By focusing on temperature and value, we can create color worlds grounded in reality that have an emotional resonance all their own. Through a series of guided exercises, we’ll look at how shifting tonal relationships allow you to alter the mood and meaning of a painting.
This course will cover color mixing with four different kinds of limited palettes, seeing color relationships in context, and experimental strategies for enhancing the way you think about color in your own studio practice.
Course Outline
Week 1: Complementary color palettes, finding color in neutrals
Week 2: “Zorn palette”, making black look blue in context
Week 3: Warm primary palette, finding nuance in quieter earth tones
Week 4: Synthetic primary palette, turning up the saturation to eleven
Course Materials
You’ll need a double primary palette (a warm and a cool each of red, yellow, and blue), plus the following: Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Venetian Red, Raw Umber, Ivory Black.
Suggested primary colors: Bismuth Yellow, Cadmium Yellow medium, Cadmium Red Light, Quinacridone Red, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue
You are welcome to supplement these with any other colors that you use regularly.
I’ll be demoing with oils, but please feel free to use whatever kind of paint you prefer.
Whenever possible, choose artist grade paints and avoid anything that says “hue”.
Brushes: a range of sizes in flats and rounds (at least one small, medium, and large is a good place to start)
Palette with enough surface area to mix a range of colors and values (16x20” is a good size)
Palette knife for mixing color on the palette
Enough ready-to-paint surfaces to make 4 color charts (one per week) and 4 paintings (size of your choice). Any surfaces you prefer (canvas, panel, linen, etc) are welcome.
Rags or paper towels
Solvents and medium of your choice, as needed