2 Day Painting Workshop - Intensive, personalized • Instructor: Hans Feyerabend November 17/18, 2007 (Sat/Sun 10am – 5pm), Tuition fee $200 Day 1 - Student evaluation, discussion/questions, expectations - Warm up: your personal color “business card” – followed by interpretation/discussion - Intro to oil, acrylic, mixing techniques, textures and tools - Intro to color theory, applied color theory Lunch break 1-2pm (on your own) - The making of a series, one subject in drawing/B&W painting/natural color/free color - Intro to texture, built up Part one  tools/materials/techniques Day 2 - Use of computer to define work in color (scan sample and alter with imaging software) - Built up texture/Part two - Layering techniques Lunch break 1-2pm (on your own) - Specific aspects of painting: lines, gradients; precision, roughness, compositon, shape, negative shape, application of color theory - Development of one image into painting applying aforementoned Bring the following supplies:: basic oil or acrylic color set, brushes, pallette, canvas or paper Atelier, 3863 Shipping Avenue, Miami, Tel 305 569 9990 Introduction color theory, excerpts: every person has a different perception of color schemes. Color theory will introduce a common system to evaluate colors and compositions. - Painting is the art of putting color on a surface. - Color is a property of light: - When we say an object is blue, for example, it means that the surface of the object absorbs all wavelenghts of light except those in the blue range. A light source is needed to let the object appear blue. Colors in physical terms: Isaac Newton - 1676: discovered light through a prism. Colorless sunlight is split up into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet; and in that order [The popular acronym to remember the sequence is ROY G. BIV] <The colors of the spectrum> - Bend this visible spectrum of “rainbow” colors into a circle to create a color wheel - a very essential tool and quick reference for painters <color wheel> - The colors around the exterior rim of the color wheel are called hues. - Red, yellow and blue are the primary colors; primary because they cannot be mixed by any other color combination. All other colors are based on those three. Mix two primary colors to create a secondary color: red + yellow = orange red + blue = violet blue + yellow = green Mix a primary with a secondary color to create an intermediate color like red-orange Usually we do not see a colored object just by itself. It is almost always surrounded by objects of different colors. A color can reveal its value as set among its surroundings. This is a key factor in a painting: the way of how a certain color is defined by other colors in the painting, how the colors interact, and how they relate to one another and to the rest of the composition. Color reality and color appearance: Color reality is the physical and chemical definition of the pigments of a color. It is what we can analyze. Color appearance is how we as human beings perceive color in its specific surroundings, with our psychological and cultural background. Examples: a white square on a black background seems to be bigger than a black square of the same size on a white background. The white shines over its actual limits. Black, in contrast seems to contract <fashion>. Reality and variations of reality can be readily achieved through harmony or contrast of color. This gives the painter another tool of expressing things beyond language. Harmony - balance or symmetry of forces. Harmony of colors - often based on law of complementary colors. [We tend to call a color scheme in a painting “harmonic” when colors are in a complementary balance.] Laws of color - (see color wheel) There are seven color contrasts: 1 - Color-in-itself-c. 2 - Value (bright and dark) c. 3 - Cold Warm c. 4 - Complementary c. 5 - Simultanous c. 6 - Quality c. 7 - Quantity c. Example 1 - Color-in-itself-contrast is strongest when using primary colors; at least three very different colors, (Itten page 35) Example: Piet Mondrian >Itten, page 34 & color circle, page 31 - Often used in traffic signs, flags, - Popular in early cultures, folk art, native indian art; for example the local Missosukee Indians: black + red + yellow Recommended Literature: The Elements of Color, by Johannes Itten, Faber Birren (Hardcover) The Color Wheel, The Color Wheel Co., at art supply stores Judith Rotschild, by Jack Flam, Hudson Hills Press, N.Y. Exploring Painting, by Gerald F. Brommer and Nancy K. Kinne