Building a Personal Palette and Enhancing Color in your Work
360 Online Class | Registration closed 5/14/2025
Instruction Medium: All - oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, etc
Visually exciting as well as practical and useful, this class provides in depth information about creating color palettes, designing color in your work and improving the poetry and expression of color in your work.
Students will do weekly painting projects critiqued by the instructor. Weekly class time on Zoom will be filled with video demos by the instructor, information on using different palettes to achieve a variety of color effects, art history and understanding painting methods better with a goal of improving the strength and interest of your work.
Open to all media and levels of experience from beginners to more advanced.
Contact: algury@comcast.net for questions
Basic materials
Al Gury
We will discuss materials in the first class meeting.
Basic classic palette for oil, acrylic or watercolor and pastel.
• Yellow Ochre
• Raw Umber
• Burnt Sienna
• Ivory Black
• Cadmium Yellow Light
• Cadmium Red Medium
• Permanent Rose
• Ultramarine Blue
• Chromium Oxide Green
• Dioxazine Purple
• Titanium White
Additional optional colors:
Burnt Umber
Mars Violet
Green Earth
Cadmium Orange
Phthalo Blue
Cadmium Green
Cerulean Blue
Zinc white
Lead white
Surfaces:
Gessoed painting surfaces, 8X10-20X16, watercolor and pastel pads of choice.
Basic color surfaces are white, gray, tan. These can be opaque or transparent imprimaturas.
• Containers for oil and thinners or water (Preferably metal or heavy plastic. Not glass because they break)
• Palette for mixing colors (Disposable, wood, metal, etc.)
• Linseed oil for oil paints
• Brushes for oil, watercolor or acrylic. (3-4 well shaped and flexible bristle brushes)
• Paper towels
• View finder for compositional choices
Sketchbook for thumbnail sketches.
Pastel or watercolor paper if needed