Color Mixing and Theory Workshop
In-Person Adult Workshop | Registration opens 2/5/2025 10:00 AM
From new visual artists to those working for decades, understanding color is imperative in creating successful work. Let our color theory expert, Lee Su, show you how to master color. If you feel like your work is taking you more time because you keep having to correct it, this is absolutely the class for you. Even well-established visual artists know the vital importance of growing their knowledge of color theory. Color mixing is knowledge that can be applied to all mediums of visual art. This workshop is an intensive study of color to challenge the facts you may think you know. Color is explored in the form of natural light and pigments of paint. Classes are designed for your personal pace and goals!
With Artist Lee Su
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- Although instructor will be conducting the course with gouache, bring paint of any medium you would like to use; however, there are four required "colors" without which you will not be able to mix some colors. They are:
- Phthalo blue
- magenta (quinacridone rose acceptable)
- hansa yellow or cadmium yellow light
- zinc white or titanium white
- bring other paints you would like to use
- bring appropriate brushes and cleaning agent per medium (no solvents)
Bring surfaces on which to apply paint appropriate for your medium:
- canvas
- watercolor paper
- bristol board
Bring a simple image to replicate its colors.
Lee Su
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Lee Su is a Chinese-American born in Vietnam and educated at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island. Through RISD's European Honors Program, he also studied for a year in Rome, Italy. He now lives and creates art full-time near Boston, Massachusetts, where he had worked previously as an architectural designer.
Lee's primary goal in teaching is to instill the "joy of making" because fulfillment gained from creating with one's hands leads to curiosity and the desire to employ one's mind.