Color Theory for Watercolor: Focus on Triads with Diane Hoffman: 1-DAY WORKSHOP (All Levels Welcome!)

Color Theory for Watercolor: Focus on Triads with Diane Hoffman
ALL LEVELS WELCOME!

Instructor: Diane Hoffman
Date/Time: 10am-1pm
Location: RIWS Classroom (Lower Level Gallery)

DESCRIPTION:

The Color Wheel is an essential starting point for understanding how colors interact. Yet most artists consider it only as a tool for creating shadows with complementary pairs. Yet it can do so much more. This three-hour workshop will focus on Triads, or three colors equidistant on the color wheel. This class will show how structured and intuitive mixing can create unique palettes with a wide variety of hue, value, saturation, and temperature that are still harmonious and sophisticated. Then we will put this unique palette to the test, using it to create practice paintings with both wet-into-wet and wet-onto-dry techniques to see what it can do.

MATERIALS LIST:

• Bring paint, but in class we will limit your palette to 3 tubes or pans to simplify mixing. I suggest: Any yellow, a red that leans cool (like a rose, pinkish), and any blue. If you really like warm red, you can bring this too.
• Two sheets of watercolor paper. Any brand, but it must be 100% cotton, 300gsm watercolor paper. 
• Round brush with a good tip 
• A large mixing space: Like a dinner plate-sized area
• Paper towels
• Vessel for water (there are some available at the gallery as well)
• Pencil

Below is a visual of the Triad: Azo Yellow (Greenleaf and Blueberry), Permanent Rose (WN), and Cobalt Blue (Holbein). This is one of many examples showing the color wheel, free mixing, glazing, and practice painting of a Peony.