Workshop | Color Crush: Mix with Confidence 2-Day

Wednesday, August 5 and Thursday, August 6
10:30am - 1:30pm | No makeup dates

Ready to rock your palette? In this 2-day Color Mixing Intensive, we’ll crack open the way color really works to paint like a pro—through relationship, not guesswork. Say goodbye to muddy mixes and hello to clean, vibrant color, rich browns, and shadow tones that actually sing instead of flatten out. You’ll learn how to mix with confidence, build palettes that feel alive, and take those skills straight into portraits, landscapes, or abstract work that glows from the inside out.

Bring the following supplies:

Oil and Acrylic Paints: Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Red Light or Vermillion, Alizarin Crimson or Quinacridone Magenta, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Blue, Pthalo Green, Ivory Black

Oil Painters: Gamblin Gamsol Mineral Spirits (Odorless) only and Liquin or Linseed Oil.

9” x 12” Drawing or Watercolor paper

Oil Painters: Cover one or two sheets of paper with one or two coats of white gesso or white acrylic paint prior to the first and second class

Masking Tape Roll

Palette Knife Options: 2 metal with wood handles

Brushes Options: ¾” or 1” Flat Brush, Small acrylic flat brush, small round acrylic brush

Palette Options: Acrylic or wood palette, Paper palette or non-absorbent paper plates

Cups or jars for water and oil media

Paper Towel Roll

Vinyl Gloves

Shirt, Smock or Apron

🎨 All levels welcome

🥪 Bring a lunch to refuel, if desired

Instructor Information:

Renée Rey, an award-winning artist born in Sagamihara, Japan, lives and works in Delray Beach, Florida.

Rey’s artwork has been recognized in national awards and exhibitions by notable museum and gallery professionals including Jade Dellinger, Director of Exhibits & Collections, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Fort Myers, FL; Julie Sasse, Chief Curator, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ; Erin Wright, Commissioning Editor and Producer, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Gisela Carbonell, Curator, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, .

Honored with the 2024 Dina Baker Fund Grant from the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Rey's work has graced galleries across the globe. Recent solo shows include Bailey Contemporary Arts Gallery, Pompano Beach, FL, Tauni De Lessep Gallery at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL, and the Hammond Hall Gallery, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL. Her group exhibitions span the Baker Museum, Naples, FL, Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY, Studio 33, Spain, Art Brut Biennale, Netherlands, and Project Space Brut, South Korea.

Rey was awarded artist residencies at Bailey Contemporary Arts (2023-2024), School of Visual Arts in New York (2019), and Sun Peaks Center for Art and Sustainability (2016). Her art is in the collections of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., New York, NY, First Albany, New York, NY, and Wasmer Art Collection at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL.

She served as the International Curator for the 2021 art exhibition "Lo Cierto Es Lo Incierto" held in Soriano, Uruguay.

A dynamic lecturer, Rey has inspired students at Florida Gulf Coast University, New College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. With nearly a decade of teaching drawing, painting, and creativity in Florida, Rey brings a wealth of experience and education to her work. Her background includes extensive undergraduate coursework in drawing, painting, 3-D design, performance art, and art history and graduate courses in film and computer art. She holds an MBA in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an A.A.S. in Interior Design from Parsons School of Design, an M.A. in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a B.A. in Judaic Studies from the University at Albany. This diverse educational foundation infuses her artistic practice with exceptional depth and perspective.