Colour Mastery Workshop with Michael Herron (2 day workshop)

This workshop is all about understanding colour as an artist.

Working with still life and landscape as our subject matter, we will play and experiment with colour theory for the whole weekend. We’ll be painting a grey scale, and a colour scale, painting with just two opposite colours, understanding how to use a complimentary counterpoint and painting in monochrome.

We will start to lay out and organise colour as shades, tones and tints on our palette to help us paint vibrant, unexpected fresh new work. Participants are welcome to work in either acrylic or oils.

Workshop dates: Saturday 15th February + Sunday 16th February 2025
Workshop structure: Both days 10am-4pm

Time Table
Saturday morning:

• Demonstrations
• Exercises still life
• Gray scale, colour scale compliment
• Limited palette dark light 2 colours

Saturday afternoon:

• Under painting and draw up colour
• Tints shades tones

Sunday morning:

• Colour mixing and still life observation

Sunday afternoon:

• Complimentary colour and landscape tones shades tints

Materials: A guide only (Michael welcomes you to bring your painting kit)

Oil Painting Materials


• Brushes - a range of sizes and shaped brushes, including flat bristle #591 or similar
  2, 4, 6, 8, 12
• Flat Nylon 1/2 and 1 inch
  
  

Oil paint colours:


• Titanium white
• Mars Black
• Lemon Yellow
• Yellow deep
• Red middle
• Alizarin Crimson
• Viridian Green, or hue
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cobalt blue (hue)
  
  
• At least 6 smallish canvases
• palette knives
• Odourless Solvent
• Refined Linseed oil
• Disposable tear off A3 palette
• Clean Rags
  
  

Acrylic Painting Materials


• Brushes - a range of different sized and shaped brushes (Flats sizes #579 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or similar
• At least 6 small canvases
• Disposable tear off A3 palette

Acrylic paint colours:


• Derivan Matisse or equivalent
• Titanium white
• Mats Black
• Lemon Yellow
• Yellow Deep
• Red middle
• Alizarin Crimson
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cobalt blue (hue)
• Viridian Green (hue)
  
  
• Palette knives
• Spreader medium
• Drying Retarder