- Teacher: Foster Santiago
- Course Length: 5 classes
- Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Warm/Cool: Color Effects in Painting
Understanding warm and cool color relationships is essential for painters interested in expressive mood, atmospheric depth, and dynamic compositions. Without this skill, paintings risk appearing flat, muddy, or visually confusing. Learning temperature shifts empowers artists to create clear spatial depth, vibrant atmosphere, and harmonious moods through color.
Each week, we’ll explore warm/cool concepts through demonstrations, targeted exercises, and personalized feedback:
- Impressionist shimmer (light and shadow through temperature)
- Atmospheric perspective (expressive depth using color)
- Accurate color matching (observational replication through temperature shifts)
- Mood and harmony (emotional impact with complementary colors)
- Expressive color contrasts (using temperature to energize compositions)
This is a friendly Level 2 class, welcoming artists who have completed Beginning Painting or comparable studio learning. Open to oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache. Come ready to expand your understanding and confidently handle temperature relationships in your paintings.
