Understanding Color w/Bonnie Mettler

Understanding Color

w/Bonnie Mettler

A twelve (12) session course

No class on 11/22

Color is knowable, but we need language so that we can think about color clearly. Color has three aspects: hue (the colors of the wheel), value (light to dark), and saturation (bright to dull). We are taught by advertising that light and bright are the same. They are not. We can have an extremely bright color that is very dark….fr example purple out of the tube. We can have a very light color that is extremely dull. We will learn to mix any color by seeing which hue it is, at which value and what saturation. Being able to mix any color is the goal. This will be a painting class with color instruction for the first hour of each class. Bring your own reference image to work from.

Come to class prepared to paint.

Materials list:

Gamblin paints:

Flake white replacement

Cadmium yellow medium

Transparent earth yellow

Burn umber

Cadmium red lithg

Alizarin crimson

Transparent earth red

Sap green

Thallo green

Ultramarine blue

Dioxyzine purple

Turp = Gamsol

Medium = New megilp

Rags or Viva paper towels

Palette

Palette knife (metal flexible, trowel shaped with crook neck)

Single edge razor blade with holder

Brushes of various sizes, mostly filbert, flat or chisel

Jack’s Studio soap Gel type

Pad of canvas paper and stretched canvas or board