NEW! Intro to Color Study

NEW! Intro to Color Study

Adult Course | Available

200 Grant St Denver, CO 80203 United States

A-01

Beginner

6/3/2024-7/8/2024

9:00 AM-12:00 PM MDT on Mon

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$333.00

$283.05

This course is designed for beginner students looking to learn oil paints for the first time, and even experienced oil painters painters who simply want to dive deep into color. Using still life as the vehicle, students will learn an exploratory methodology that investigates color relationships. Utilizing a broad spectrum of pigments, students will become familiar with colors and how they interact, as well as a variety of lighting conditions. Students will learn how to start and develop a color study to varying degrees of resolution and complexity through this hands on approach and instructor demonstrations.

Week 1: What is a Color Study? Light Key, Gesture, and Color Relationships.
Week 2: Building a Process: First pass, Second Pass, Anchor notes
Week 3: Practicing the Hensche Method
week 4: Breaking down the masses: Secondary color notes and form.
week 5: Light Key: Same set-up, 2 paintings: warm and cool lighting conditions
week 6: Color compression: Colored Gel Studies

  • Palette - wooden rectangular palette - 11x14 or larger. Must be stained a dark neutral brown and SEALED. NO palette paper. Glass is acceptable.

    Brushes - 2 of each of the following: Bristle Filberts sizes #4,#3,#2,#1

    Palette Knife

    Rags - Viva paper towels recommended

    Solvent - Odorless Mineral Spirits in a SEALED jar

    Medium - 1 part stand oil to 2 parts solvent

    Canvas: you will need a 12x16 canvas or canvas panel each class, toned a neutral gray. For canvas toning procedure, see below. This will also be demonstrated the first day:

    Take Meininger’s neutral gray acrylic paint and squeeze about a heaping tablespoon of paint into a mixing bowl. Stir in a little water and thin until you get the consistency of melted ice cream. Take a wide chip brush to scrub this mixture onto your canvas. Once covered, carefully drag the brush from one end of the canvas to another to make even, parallel strokes. Let dry.

    Colors: This course utilizes a very broad chromatic palette. This can become overwhelming or economically difficult if you are purchasing all new pigments. Below is a list of the full recommended palette, with Asteriks indicating colors that are optional. You do not need to purchase every single color listed, but it is highly recommended to have as many as possible:


    1. Titanium White
    2. Burnt Sienna
    3. Alizarin Crimson
    4. Permanent Rose 
    5. *Perylene Red*
    5. *Cadmium red deep*
    6. Cadmium Red 
    7. Cadmium Scarlet
    8. Cadmium Orange
    9. Raw Sienna
    10. *Indian Yellow*
    11. Cadmium Yellow
    12. Cadmium  Yellow Pale or Cadmium Lemon
    13. Cadmium Green Pale
    14. *Viridian*
    15. Permanent Green
    16. Phthalo Green
    17. Phthalo Turquoise
    18. *Cerulean Blue* or Sevres Blue* 
    19. *Cobalt Blue*
    20. Ultramarine Blue
    21. Dioxazine Purple
    22. *Quinacridone Magenta*
    23. Ivory Black

Alexander Soukas' serious training in the fine arts began upon attending the Walnut Hill School for the arts, one of five high schools in the United States dedicated to rigorous training in music, ballet, theatre, writing, and visual arts. Unsatisfied with his studies, and desiring to pursue a career as an artist, he began homeschooling as a way of earning his diploma while undertaking an apprenticeship with realist figure painter Jason Polins. Soukas studied traditional painting and drawing in Boston with Polins for 4 years, where he now visits as a guest instructor at Polins' atelier, The Boston School of Painting. Years later, Soukas studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in a coordinated program with the University of Pennsylvania for a year before leaving to seek a more rigorous classical training at Studio Incamminati. While there, he worked for and studied under Nelson Shanks as one of his last apprentices. https://www.alexandersoukas.com/