California Color Crush II: Implementing Color

Dates: June 22-23, 2025

Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tuition: $575

Lodging Booked Separately: Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds

Level: Beginner - Advanced

Class Size: 10

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. Select specific palettes from the color charts you just mixed in the previous two-day Color Crush workshop and utilize them in your own work. This workshop involves experiential learning to help you incorporate and absorb theoretical knowledge, permanently cementing it in your own artistic practice.

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

Through carefully designed demonstrations, learn to 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.

In this follow-up workshop, you will:

• Choose newly discovered muted hues and chromatic grays to convey your intended sentiment and emphasize compositional focus

• Create four - six quick 12" x 12" color sketches as precursors to two 16" x 20" (or larger) paintings in your own style.

• Learn how to integrate specific color strategies into your artistic practice

• Learn how to translate theoretical color knowledge into intuitive painting

What you will gain:

• Newfound depth of understanding and appreciation of co-primaries, complements and split complements

• The importance of values in various hues

• A permanent body of knowledge that will ease your color woes, improve your confidence in color mixing, and change the way you think about color for the rest of your creative life

What People Are Saying:

"...helping me grow by leaps and bounds!" -Jan M.

"...a springboard for me to create more complex and nuanced artwork." - Heather D.

"Helen is an excellent teacher!" - Mikey B.

"I learned so much in Helen's color course!" - Ingrid A.

"...right up there with college classes." - Pam H.

"...answering questions I never knew how to ask!" - Suzanne D.

“...surprised and humbled by how much I didn’t know and how much there is to know about color!" - 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 light bulb 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

PS. Space is limited to 10, so register today!