Build Your Custom Palette: Independent Study in Oil or Acrylic

Stop guessing your mixes and start painting with technical confidence. This intensive is designed to help you build a professional color palette tailored to your specific goals.

The Workshop Focus

Whether you bring a personal reference photo or choose a historical painting for a Master Study, you will receive individualized guidance to sharpen your technical execution. We will focus on:

Color Strategy: Building a cohesive pre-mixed palette for your chosen subject.

Paint Application: Touching on specific techniques to improve the physical handling of your medium.

Technical Accuracy: Mastering values, color saturation, and hue.

Independent Growth: Solving the specific color challenges in your unique work.

Expected Outcome

Students will have a solid start with significant progress and a clear path forward.

Supply List

Students will receive a detailed supply list upon registration.

The list includes a split primary palette of paints (oil or acrylic), brushes, palette knives, paint medium, a brush washer, and paint rags. We recommend a Grey Matters palette (12” x 16”), preferably in a sealable box for mess-free transport.

This is the same list used for all previous classes; however, students will also need to bring:

• A printed copy of their chosen reference photo.
• A painting surface (canvas, primed wood panel, or canvas pad) in any size from 8” x 10” up to 16” x 20”.

The image can be traced out ahead of time using a projector or drawn by hand. Alternatively, students may begin their image on a blank canvas in class, depending on their own drawing abilities and artistic process.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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