Implementing Color

Implementing Color: Applying Color Theory in Your Studio Practice

Online Course

Wednesdays, October 23 - November 20, 2024

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Class Size: Unlimited

Tuition: $575

Level: All

Prequisite: Have taken color theory or have some color theory knowledge

It's one thing to KNOW about color.  It's an entirely different thing to TRANSLATE YOUR KNOWLEDGE onto the canvas.

Five Live 90-Minute Online Sessions:

Through demos, guided exercises and assignments, use your newfound knowledge to synthesize your color understandng into your painting practice. Let's adventure together into the wonderful world of color!  As a painter, Helen will lead you through exercises that will help you put color knowledge into practice. Push your understanding of color further!

Dive Deeper and Further Understand:

• color relativity and proportion

• ways to utilize color harmony or dissonance in your work

• employment of muted hues and chromatic grays to make your more prismatic hues stand out

• psychological effect of color relationships

• color and the illusion of transparency and depth

What to Expect:

• Take further what you already know and integrate specific color strategies into your artistic practice

• Receive dditional guidance in synchronizing color

• Take theoretical information and fully comprehend it intuitively

• Expand your painting practice with new found color knowledge

 Helen has an ability to guide you in fine tuning and amplifying your ideas. She demonstrates the potential of what you can do with the concepts at hand and then let you loose to discover what is possible in your own practice.  As an instructor, Helen draws upon her formal art training to add richness and depth to the classroom experience.

What People Are Saying:

“I learned so much in this class that I will utilize throughout my practice. Highly recommend!” – Beth K.

"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.

"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 and the experience makes me want to take more Catalyst classes  in the future." - Karen N. F.

"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.

From the Instructor:

 "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." -Helen Dannelly

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