Exploring Color workshop with Carolyn Gates
Saturday & Sunday, August 22, 23 | 10:00am–4:00pm
Tuition $100
via Zoom
Workshop has been expanded two hours on each day in order for Carolyn to be available for questions.
Back at the Hoffman by popular demand, is watercolor artist Carolyn Gates for two days of exploring the power of color, using the medium of watercolor. Sometimes, students find color to be confusing and complicated. Carolyn will guide students to venture beyond basic color into value, to make paintings that really pop.
This online workshop is offered “live” on Zoom. Participants will receive examples of color palettes, three images to paint, samples of completed paintings using a limited color palette, and other handouts. Demonstrations will be recorded and posted to enable students to review over several days.
Carolyn enjoys teaching and is inspired by the work her students do. Her focus is teaching basic concepts, while encouraging each student to find their own style. “After every class and workshop, I want to go back to my studio and paint with the freedom and joy I see in my students’ work.”
This is a two-day online workshop that includes 4-hour sessions each day (eight hours total class time). Participants will have one hour each session to work on their paintings from noon to 1pm in addition to the time spent painting during each morning’s demonstrations. Images of completed (even partially completed) work can be emailed before 1pm as the final hour (1 to 2 pm) each day is reserved for a Q&A, and gentle critique of students’ work.
Carolyn has been painting in watercolor for the past 17 years. Her work is noted for strong color and compositions that explore the relationships of shapes to make pleasing visual patterns, resulting in abstraction of the subject. Carolyn’s paintings investigate beauty, shape and color, and the interplay between the ordinary and the extraordinary
Gates currently teaches watercolor at Maude Kerns Art Center in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches watercolor workshops at the Hoffman Center for the Arts. Gates studied studio art at Mira Costa College in Oceanside, California, and watercolor painting at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. She has studied watercolor with Carolyn Carter, Satoko Motouji and Judy Morris. She is currently a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon. For more information and to view her work here.
Student Materials List
Paper Three quarter sheets (11″x 15″) of professional grade watercolor paper, such as Arches, torn in half to create six 1/8th sheets
Brushes Use any watercolor brushes you have, recommended sizes: No. 12 round, No. 8 round, No. 4 round. 1” flat (optional),
and ½” flat (optional)
Paint Bring any watercolor paints that you have but recommended is Professional Artist Level of either Winsor-Newton (WN), M Graham (MG), or Daniel Smith (DS). If you buy new tubes a 5 ml size is ok.
Recommended Palette (warm & cool primary colors)
Aureolin (Yellow), OR Cadmium Yellow Light, OR Hansa Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium OR New Gamboge
Permanent Alizarin Crimson ORCarmine
Cadmium Red Medium OR Pyrrol Red
French Ultramarine Blue OR Ultramarine Blue
Prussian Blue OR Pthalo Blue
Burnt Sienna
Winsor Green (Yellow Shade) OR Pthalo Green
Payne’s Gray OR Ivory Black OR Lamp Black OR Neutral Tint
Other Supplies
Palette
HB Pencil
Kneaded eraser
2 water containers (minimum)
Paper towels
Small spray bottle
Metal or plastic ruler (if you already have one) for tearing paper Masking tape
Optional
Watercolor journal 5” x 8” with 140 lb paper (Highly recommended for creating a personal journal of potential color palettes.)
Materials are avaialble at:
Salt and Paper
Dick Blick
Dots ‘n Doodles
Carolyn Gates Exploring Color workshop
