California Color Crush II: Implementing Color

Dates: June 22-23, 2025

Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuition: $595

Lodging Booked Separately: Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds

Level: Beginner - Advanced

This is the essential follow-up course to California Color Crush I.

It's one thing to know about color.  It's an entirely different thing to translate your knowledge onto the canvas.

During California Color Crush II: Implementing Color, learn to translate your color knowledge into practical applications in your own work. Explore color relativity, harmony, dissonance, prismatic hues, color psychology and more in this intensive color application workshop.

This workshop is designed to push your understanding of color further.

Through carefully designed demonstrations, time-tested exercises and assignments, you can synthesize your color understanding (from Color Crush I) into your painting practice. I will guide you to push your understanding and application of color further than you thought was possible.

Gain a Deeper Understanding of

• Color relativity and proportion

• How to use color harmony

• How to use dissonance in your work

• How to use muted hues and chromatic grays

• How to make your more prismatic hues stand out

• Psychological effect of color relationships

• Color and the illusion of transparency and depth

• How to integrate specific color strategies into your artistic practice

• How to translate theoretical color knowledge into intuitive painting

Reviews:

"I want to say how much I’m enjoying this workshop. You are an excellent teacher and the curriculum you’re sharing is helping me to  grow by leaps and bounds." -Jan M.

"Helen Dannelly’s color classes were exactly what I needed at just  the right time in my development. They were a springboard for me to  create more complex and nuanced artwork." - Heather D.

"Next Level Color was fabulous!  Helen is an excellent teacher." - Mikey B.

"I agree with Mikey! I learned so much in Helen’s Next Level Color  course. I look forward to participating in her Implementing Color  workshop! Helen is definitely an excellent instructor!" - Ingrid A.

"Thanks for the help and encouragement.  You are right in saying that  I will never forget the concepts of this lesson! I love how academic  these classes have been. Right up there with college classes." - Pam H.

"This is a great class! You are answering questions I never knew how to ask. You are such a generous teacher." - Suzanne D.

“I’ve loved the class, have been surprised and humbled by how much I  didn’t know and how much there is to know about color. You are a dynamic teacher." - Karen N. F.

Expect Your Painting Practice to Blossom

Since my first color theory course as an undergraduate art student over 30 years ago, I've had a deep appreciation for the difference color theory can make with your painting practice. I find that artists often hit a roadblock with their work, get stymied by color and just don’t know how to resolve it. It's exciting to see the lightbulb go off as artists do the color mixing exercises and realize all the subtleties they can achieve with various palettes. I love watching them dive in and create beyond what they thought was possible, to be surprised by how much further they can push their work. Once they understand how to achieve harmonious color palettes and combine color to achieve the look they are after, their painting practice just blossoms.

Join me at Asilomar Retreat Center - Monterey Peninsula’s “Refuge-by-the-sea” - in Pacific Grove, California and indulge your senses during this follow-up workshop. Together we'll dive deep into color application!

-Helen