Color Family #4 ready to go!

Showing the Color Clock and how easy it is to use. If you missed this class at Maryland Hall For the Arts keep your eyes on http://www.paintpencil.com

Having some fun with Color and Design

 Some of  you will  have the opportunity to  paint this design in a color family of your choice next weekend in my Color Clock Class.  It is important to play with color and shape. Forget about having a finished painting suitable for framing.  You will never learn if you don't free yourself up to fool around for the pure fun of it.  This is  a step by step rendition of a simple design, It is Color Family #9 which is yellow, yellow-orange, orange, red-orange and red. Blue is the   complement of the family.   This may look easy but it takes alot of time and thought. I started with an original     drawing, but as I used darker values in  later stages of layering I made up the shapes.

This is the under-painting

Starting to define the shapes

Coming along

Getting Closer but I need those important dark values

Finished!!!!! I fussed on the last steps. It is an intensely warm painting.

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.