Feeney Class, Cape Cod Art Association
The first session at the Cape Cod Art Association went well last week. I gave my “Take the bad colors off your palette now,” lecture without too much feedback.
Paint companies are in the business of selling paints. They don’t really care if your work is improving or stuck in a Burnt Umber rut. They just want you to buy as many different tubes of various colors as you can.
Now me, I’m all about mixing my own colors. Not that I am a great colorist but I do recognize problem colors and students that cannot let them go. I went over some of these colors with my new students and could feel the good mood deflate in the studio temporarily.
For the Student-
When you are buying your supplies in the future, holding that tube of Sap Green in your hand wondering what route to take to improving your work, right now, … the challenging, satisfying… let me try mixing my harmonizing colors myself route, or to take your tried and true method and just squeeze any old tube habit?
Don’t be a sap. Just because it’s in an art supply shop, that does not mean it will help you create art.
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