New! Painting Color Contrasts in Watercolor

11/04/2025 - 11/25/2025 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Level: All

Registration opens on 08/05/2025

Price

$222

Member Price

$188.7

Material Fee: 8

Room: 106

200 Grant St Denver

Introductory watercolor experience needed

Tickets go on sale on 08/05/2025

Look at rich purples and blues contrasted against vivid yellow and oranges and you know the right colors in the right spots can do remarkable things. Learn how to think in a new way about how you want your colors to relate to one another to make a painting pop. Work with value contrast, complimentary contrast and saturation to add more meaning to an artwork. Discover how color contrasts can be used as the focal point or to feature stunning colors. Balance will be key when pushing color contrasts so as not to overdo it. Juxtapose color and see why opposites attract! Reference material provided. In addition to working with color schemes for more colorful paintings that hold together, students will understand why certain colors work well together and the different moods that can be created with the right colors.

WEEK 1: Evening with Backlit Building and Trees

WEEK 2: Alpine Village with Fall Colors

WEEK 3: Fall Colors with Magenta Barn

WEEK 4: Deep Sky with Bridge over Stream

Dennis Pendleton

WATERCOLOR PALETTE WITH LID

WATERCOLOR PAPER OR WATERCOLOR BLOCK (9” x 12” OR LARGER) 140LB COLD PRESS

WATERCOLOR BRUSHES (#6 AND #8 ROUND, 1”- 1 1/2” FLAT)

CADMIUM RED

ALIZARIN CRIMSON

CADMIUM YELLOW

LEMON YELLOW

YELLOW OCHRE

BURNT SIENNA

RAW UMBER

OLIVE GREEN

CERULEAN BLUE

ULTRAMARINE BLUE

COBALT VIOLET

MINERAL VIOLET

WATER CONTAINER

SPRAY BOTTLE

TISSUES WITHOUT LOTION OR PAPER TOWEL