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| Painting workshops in May 2014 Photo by Jo Howell |
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| Painting workshops in May 2014 Photo by Jo Howell |
We have started running an evening course in painting for our members on a Thursday evening after our normal studio day.
A local artist is teaching our workshops, and its a great excuse to use The Art Studio building much more. At the moment these course are only for the members but we will be holding some workshops for the wider public in the near future, so watch this space!
Starting with basic colour mixing, today the members have been trying their hands at creating their own colours from the 3 primary colours.
(NB: For those who were not in the session the primary colours are RED, YELLOW and BLUE.)
Using a colour wheel to guide them the members used the primary colours to create the secondary colours- GREEN, ORANGE, PURPLE. Then after making the secondary colours they completed the colour wheel by creating two more secondary colours that were in-between the two.
This proved to be an interesting as well as challenging exercise for some and for others the evening served as an excellent refresher for basic colour.
Everyone came away having learned a lot about mixing colours. The course will run throughout May, and we are looking forward to learning new skills.
If you couldn't attend the evening course but don't want to miss out, you can have a go at home. Create your colour chart by drawing around a decent sized dinner plate, and then segment your circle into 12 sections. Start with YELLOW, RED and BLUE then try to build the rest of your colours in the wheel using only those 3. Good luck!
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| Painting workshops in May 2014 Photo by Jo Howell |
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