Painting With Acrylic: Beginning lesson on color

In last night's class,  we learned about primary, secondary and tertiary colors. We talked about warm colors appearing "aggressive" and cool colors appearing to "recede". We worked through and observed these concepts in an exercise by painting layers in the style of the great Color Field Painter of the Twentieth Century, Mark Rothko. I'm grateful for such attentive students! (The image shown here is my class demonstration piece.)

Toned ground

The first step in painting a new pet portrait commission:  "Laying on" the "ground".

Painting with Acrylic

I am teaching an eight-week class for adults through Community Education at East High School here in Salt Lake City. Beginning and Intermediate Acrylic Painting meets Thursday evenings. Tomorrow evening's in-class assignment is shown here. This exercise helps demonstrate "chiaroscuro", the use of light and dark in painting to express volume and depth.

I'm painting

 Taormina, Italy

 Seattle, Washington

 Salt Lake City, Utah

Park City, Utah

I have been away again...

Above:  The Florida Room and back garden facing the lake.

Above:  The front of the house.
My dear aunt's home for 42 years.

Beach - Nelson New Zealand December 2013