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The Complete Color Workshop
Course Code: DDSAT10AM050110
Summer 2010
Faculty: David Dunlop
Start Date: Saturday, 06/05/2010
Time: 10am - 3pm
Duration: One-Day
Fee: $120
How the eye perceives color and the brain recognizes color and creates meaning; color forecasting, color mixing; how to build luminous color, sparkling color, successive contrast, simultaneous contrast, historic color in divergent cultures; intrinsic memory color; finding equivalents between value and color, historic and contemporary science in color theory, the color systems of Renaissance, Impressionist, Persian, ancient Chinese, Photorealist and contemporary chromatic artist, Rembrandt’s palette, Turner’s palette, Monet’s palette, translucent and opaque painting with color; differing coloring properties of your paints, effect of light transferred to paint (halation, auras, fading, vibrating, heating, cooling, transparency, mirroring, silvering); shot colors, interference colors, electric colors and how to create and use them . This workshop explains and demonstrates 2000 years of color practice. Mediums that will be discussed will be oil, watercolor and acrylic paints.





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