Workshop : The Color Planning Secret and A Taste Of Negative Painting

This workshop is open to all painters regardless of your painting medium. My simple color theory will change the way you choose color and eliminate muddy results.

Date:  Saturday, September 17 

Place:  Maryland Hall for the Arts in Annapolis

Time:  10 am-4pm

Cost : $45 for members and $70 Non-members

Go to http://www.mdhallarts.org/   to register

In addition to color I will be offering a taste of negative painting. Each participant will get a wonderful booklet full of great hand-outs and worksheets.

The True Self

This is a good example of a negative painting done with a limited palette.--notice the circular arrangement of the colors. 

The title comes from the Course In Miracles. White lilies represent purity  and they are at the center of our being. Our true self is what is left after we subtract our egos.  This true self  is our real self.   It is hard to see and connect with the true self because we carry so much in the unconscious we are not aware of.   Judgements also get in the way of seeing the true self and in the world we live in judgements are hard to escape.

Many of my paintings come from my desire to ask spiritual questions and seek answers. These issues are reflected in the way I portray my subjects.  Sometimes I call these  watercolors painted prayers.