- Teacher: Sarah Helen More
- Course Length: 4 weeks
- Day: begins Saturday, July 26
- Time: 10:30 am – 1:30 pm
Beginners welcome. All levels.
Do you feel like you’re “not good with color”? Do you always reach for the same pigments and wish your color choices felt more personal, more expressive, or just more you?
This four-session workshop is designed to help you discover and develop your own intuitive color palette. Through guided exercises and playful experimentation, you’ll build a personalized approach to color that reflects your preferences and strengthens your creative voice.
We’ll explore how to:
- Identify the colors you naturally gravitate toward—and expand beyond them
- Choose and refine a palette that’s personal, cohesive, and surprising
- Use both favorite and “challenging” colors in ways that serve your painting
- Explore relationships between color, mood, and meaning
- Create a personal color reference notebook to record mixes, discoveries, and ideas
This class is about building confidence, fluency, and curiosity with color—not following formulas. You’ll try new approaches, test combinations, and discover what works for you. Expect some short studies, some color play, and a lot of aha moments.
By the end, you’ll have a notebook full of color ideas and tools, and a clearer sense of how to approach color in your painting practice with both structure and freedom.
Holbein Acrylic Gouache – Set of 18, Assorted Colors, 12 ml Tubes
OR
Winsor & Newton Galeria Acrylics – Set of 20, Assorted Colors, 12 ml
OR similar, such as Golden Acrylics
You’ll need two different shades of every color, so 2 reds, 2 oranges, 2 yellows, 2 greens, 2 blues, 2 purples as well as a black and a white.
Strathmore Softcover 500 Series Mixed Media Art Journal – 9-3/4″ x 7-3/4″, 64 Pages
Drawing Sheet, Pkg of 100, 9×12″
Trekell “Not Too Bad” Brush Pack
Yogurt container or jar for water
Scissors
Glue stick
Pencil & Sharpener
12″ ruler
Small palette knife