Color and the Landscape w/Claire Haik

In this one-day workshop, you'll learn how to use color for emotional impact and scenic clarity in your landscape paintings. We'll see how color works in realistic and expressive landscapes throughout art history and apply those lessons to our paintings.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, this workshop will allow you to slow down and explore color from a new angle. We will discuss how color is used to create depth, atmosphere, and mood in a painting and how the color of the sky disperses throughout a landscape, unifying and harmonizing everything you see.

Students will work from photographs in the studio, and together we will do small painting exercises focused on color. This simplified approach is a great way to learn how to mix and use color effectively and will help you create subtle and sophisticated color worlds.

Suitable for anyone excited about slowing down and mixing intentional colors. Students are welcome to work in oil, acrylic, or gauche.

Materials List:

Paint

- This class is all about experimenting with color. Feel free to bring your preferred colors and pre-mixed secondary colors. Just bring a selection to experiment with!

- I often use the colors below, but they are not required.

- Titanium White (Opaque White)

- Cadmium Yellow Light (Cool Yellow)

- Cadmium Yellow Deep (Cool Yellow)

- Yellow Ocher (Earth Yellow)

- Ultramarine Blue (Warm Blue)

- Cerulean Blue (Cool Blue)

- Prussian Blue (Transparent Blue, Optional)

- Ivory or Mars Black (Earth Blue, Optional)

- Cadmium Red Medium (Warm Red)

- Alizarin Crimson (Cool Red)

- Burnt Sienna (Transparent Earth Red)

Brushes

- Selection of Flats, Rounds, and Filberts in different Sizes

- Palette Knife

Canvas

- Canvas Pad or Other Painting Support.

- We will not be making complete paintings in this class, but several small studies, so bring 2-3 smaller canvases (smaller than 8x10, I like 6x6 squares). Or you can bring one larger canvas that we can divide in half.

Other

- Masking tape

- Palette or paper to mix on

- Printed Photographs to draw and paint from