Wed: Colour Theory and composition

Wednesday afternoon from 1-3 pm

Winter session 2017: January 18 to March 8

Instructor: Lauren McKinley Renzetti

Fee: $255 (includes taxes) for 8 weeks

Material $35-50. A list will be sent once registered. Bring your own materials each week.

This course will explore how colour  and composition work with each other. While creating studies on colour we will also explore composition. The difference between compositions that are dynamic vs. static, calm vs. tense and flat vs. deep within a given image. We will paint true primary, secondary and tertiary colours along with analogous and complimentary colours. Along the way we will gain colour language from hue, warm , cool,   tint, tone, intensity , simultaneous contrast, lustre, luminosity and what each colour’s value is on the grey scale.   We will also look at Colour Theorists, Itten, Munsell, and Goethe. This course is also designed to create useful colour wheels and value scales that help you further understand what your chosen palette can do while also creating fabulous studies for future painting.

Limited to 9 participants

To register click here or contact Lauren directly at [email protected]
Instructor: Lauren McKinley Renzetti is a mixed media artist, specializing in abstraction of the world around her through printmaking,  collage and acrylic paint. She received a combined Honours Art and Theatre degree from McMaster University in 1995. Lauren has been teaching art for over twenty years with all ages. She has worked at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ryerson University, Art Works Art School and been the Artist-in-Residence at Unicamp of Ontario. She currently teaches at the AGO, Art For Cancer and is the curator of Neighbourhood Galleries in the Beaches.  Lauren shows her work widely and takes part in many group and solo shows in Southern Ontario, Brooklyn and Bulgaria.  laurenmckinleyrenzetti.ca/