This workshop will introduce you to my Chromatic Palette and to a few tried and true color palettes that can be used from within this basic set of colors. These are some of the same palettes that Henri, Bellows and Sloan went to great depths to explore with amazing results. As we explore these palettes, I will outline how to make them and how to use them effectively. You will walk away with a newfound understanding of how efficiently color can be used and how fun interpreting color can be!

I will provide handouts and demonstrate twice each day. On both mornings I will demonstrate mixing up a specific time-tested color palette and you will follow along with me. This will be followed by a painting demonstration after lunch and then your own painting time along with my help. I will provide numerous landscape photo references from which to interpret from. This workshop will provide you with plenty of material with which to experiment well beyond the class. 

I have designed this workshop for any skill level. Please do not hesitate to sign up for this exciting and intensive color workshop. 

More about this workshop: In his book ‘The Principals of Harmony and Contrast of Colors’ Michel Chevreul stated that color harmony is achieved in two ways - by juxtaposing either analogous colors or complementary colors.  
 
For centuries painters arranged their color according to workable, convenient systems. Rubens taught his apprentices to prepare special color mixtures in jars at well-regulated intervals of darks, halftones, and lights. Cezanne advised always having 48 carefully mixed color tones on the palette. Around 1913, Robert Henri, George Bellows and John Sloan began carefully working and experimenting with the color theories and palette ideas created by artists H.G. Maratta and Denman Ross. 
 
Suffice it to say that at one point in time, color theory was misunderstood, and color harmony was looked upon with bewilderment and confusion. It was Chevreul who started to make some sense of it all. As tubed colors became more readily available, the greats like Henri, Bellows and Sloan began bringing color theory to the forefront of American art and by doing so, they’ve essentially done a lot of the hard work for us. 
 
In 1992 I began an intense 5-year self-immersion into reading, deciphering and experimenting with these color palettes that Robert Henri, George Bellows and John Sloan were introduced to beginning in 1913. This led me to my own interpretation of these color systems, and I was able to design a base color palette that I felt was harmonious to the information I studied using the best tubed colors available to the artist today. My 5 color Chromatic Palette that I have continued to use now for over 30 years was the result. It is my pleasure to share this information with you in simple terms and application.