This program at the High Museum in Atlanta offers participants new methods for creating paintings while experimenting with color systems and texture. Participants will work from observation, memory, and imagination, learning to mix colors using warm and cool color palettes. The curriculum includes exploration of brushstrokes, mark making, value, and the study of color hue and saturation through the use of a primary color wheel. A final painting will be created by integrating the methods for color mixing, application, and texture learned throughout the course.
Week 1: The program will commence with an outline of the approaches to color and texture that will be explored. Participants will engage in painting exercises utilizing warm and cool color palettes to investigate color mixing, brushstrokes, and visual texture through mark making.
Week 2: Participants will continue painting with warm and cool color palettes, creating compositions based on observation while exploring value and visual texture.
Week 3: Using the primary color wheel as a reference, participants will mix colors to create individual abstract color compositions, experimenting with hue, value, and saturation.
Week 4: This week will focus on experimenting with various mediums and surfaces to build up textures in a series of painting exercises while continuing to familiarize participants with the primary color wheel.
Week 5: Participants will combine methods explored in previous sessions to develop a personal painting system for a final composition, creating imagery drawn from observation, memory, and imagination, while integrating texture along with warm and cool colors.
Week 6: The program will conclude with participants finalizing their paintings. Following this, there will be a group reflection among classmates to discuss their work and share insights gained throughout the course.
