Colorful painting of an Figure using shapes

The Figure in Context: Painting with Chromatic Harmony

GGT Weekend Workshop | Available

6520 5th Ave South Seattle, WA 98108 United States
Studio B (Room 123)
All Levels
5/17/2025-5/18/2025
9:30 AM-4:30 PM PST on Sun Sat
$372.00
$334.80

The Figure in Context: Painting with Chromatic Harmony

GGT Weekend Workshop | Available

In this 2-day workshop participants will engage in the process of building a chromatic composition that embeds the figure within a larger context of colored shapes. We will engage in the process of identifying color relationships based on Value, Temperature, and Intensity to create harmonic color mixtures as our primary building blocks

This class is part of Kimberly’s COLOR LAB, a series of weekend workshops with Kimberly Trowbridge, Director of the Modern Color Atelier, offered throughout the academic year.

Spring COLOR LAB Topic: The Color-Blocking Method: How to See and Mix Color Relationships

Workshops offered:
• The Still Life: Painting with Chromatic Harmony - April
• The Figure in Context: Painting with Chromatic Harmony - May

Instruction Medium: Oil or acrylic paint

  • SUPPLIES:

    Oil or Acrylic Painting Materials (instructor will be using oils)
    You will want a fully chromatic palette— a version of each color of the rainbow:
    Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Magenta. No earth pigments, only intense hues as our starting place.

    Suggested Pigments: (if you do not have these exact pigments do not worry, use whatever hue equivalents you have)

    -Titanium White
    -Cadmium Red (light or medium)
    -Cadmium Orange
    -Cadmium Yellow Light
    -Phthalo Green
    -Phthalo Blue
    -Ultramarine Blue
    -Dioxazine Violet/Purple
    -Quinacridone Magenta

    Palette for Mixing Paint
    Palette Knife
    Painting Medium/Thinner (Gamsol)
    Dorland’s Wax Medium (optional)
    Assortment of Brushes (Bristle and Smooth)
    Arches Oil Paper, 16 x 20”, 1 Sheet (or other painting surface)
    Board for Mounting Paper
    Artist’s Tape
    Ruler
Kimberly Trowbridge