A still life painting in a baroque style. There are vases, glasses, and fruit on a table.

Confident with Color: Learn Techniques of the Masters, from Renaissance to Modern Art

Class | Available

510 Bellevue Way NE Bellevue, WA 98004 United States
Upstairs Classroom
All Levels
4/12/2025-6/14/2025
1:30 PM-4:00 PM PST on Sat
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$472.50
$425.25

Confident with Color: Learn Techniques of the Masters, from Renaissance to Modern Art

Class | Available

No Class: 5/17/2025 

Instruction Medium: Oil or acrylic paint

This 9-week course takes students on a journey of discovery including an overview of art history and a study of color painting secrets from the Renaissance through Modern Art. Suitable for painters of every level, course work includes four completed paintings from four periods of art history…and teaches the techniques of traditional color glazing, scumbling, impressionistic visual color effects, fauvist expressionism, and modern art experimentalism in color flow. Become confident with color by learning more than 7 important color techniques which are each a roadway to mastery and find out which might best give you the tools to match your inner voice.

  • Students can choose to work EITHER in Acrylics or Oils. Pick the appropriate supply list to order. Not necessary to have both.

    Materials for Acrylic

    Note: materials available from dickblick.com. If you will be using your own supplies, please make sure you have the colors below. Contact instructor Diane Crago at dianecrago@gmail.com with any questions regarding supplies.

    1. Golden Taklon Round Brush/ long handle/size 8 – 1 (if buying another brand refer to dick blick website to match this size).
    2. Richeson Plastic Knife/ 2 inch diamond –1
    3. Golden Taklon Flat Brush/long handle/ size 12 – 1 (or any flat synthetic brush about 3/8” wide)
    4. Blick flat Canvas Panels/ 8 X 10 5 oz cotton – 2
    5. Blick Academic stretched canvas 8 X 10 (2 pack) or larger if desired.
    6. Blick brush soap-1
    7. DB Tracing Paper Pad 50 sheets 9” X 12”- 1
    8. Dick Blick Acetate Sheet pad 9” X 12”-1
    9. Saral wax free transfer paper (white or graphite)-1
    Acrylic Colors
    Note: Golden Acrylics are superior in color, but expensive. Dick Blick acrylics are more affordable but less intense in color. In either case buy smallest tube of each color and largest tube white.

    1. Burnt Sienna - (1)
    2. Yellow Ochre– (1)
    3. Alizarin Crimson– (1)
    4.Burnt Umber– (1)
    5.Ultramarine– (1)
    6.Cadmium Yellow light – (1)
    7.Cadmium Red light– (1)
    8.Phthalo Green– (1)
    9.Cobalt Blue – (1)
    10.Cadmium Yellow Deep– (1)
    11.Titanium White– (1)

    Paper Towels, aluminum foil for a palette, clear glass palette or acrylic palette

    Materials for Oil
    Available from dickblick.com
    Note: if you already have oil paints and supplies please refer to this list for colors necessary for this class. Contact dianecrago@gmail.com with any questions you might have about materials.

    1. Golden Taklon Round Brush/ long handle/size 8 – 1 (if buying another brand refer to dick blick website to match this size)
    2. Richeson Plastic Knife/ 2 inch diamond -1
    3. Golden Taklon Flat Brush/long handle/ size 12 – 1 (or any flat synthetic brush about 3/8” wide)
    4. Blick flat Canvas Panels/ 8 X 10 5 oz cotton – 2
    5. Blick Academic stretched canvas 8 X 10 (2 pack)
    6. Blick brush soap-1
    7. Galkyd Gel 150 ml – (1)
    8. DB Tracing Paper Pad 50 sheets 9” X 12”- 1
    9. Dick Blick Acetate Sheet pad 9” X 12”-1
    10. Saral wax free transfer paper (white or graphite)-1

    Oil Colors
    1. Winton Oil Paint/ Burnt Sienna 37 ml - (1)
    2. Winton Oil/Yellow Ochre 37 ml – (1)
    3. Winton Oil/ Alizarin Crimson 37 ml – (1)
    4. Winton Oil/ Burnt Umber 37 ml – (1)
    5. Winton Oil/ French Ultramarine 37 ml – (1)
    6. Winton Oil Cadmium Yellow Pale 37 ml – (1)
    7. Winton Oil/ Cadmium Red light 37 ml – (1)
    8. Winton Oil/Viridian 37 ml – (1)
    9. Winton Oil/Cobalt Blue 37 ml –(1)
    10. Winton Oil/ Cadmium Yellow Deep 37 ml – (1)
    11. Winton Oil/ Titanium White 200 ml – (1)
    Optional: Phthalo green oil color, Quinacridone magenta oil color, Phthalo blue oil color

    Paper Towels, aluminum foil for a palette, clear glass palette or wooden palette

Diane Crago