Warm and Cool Colors

This weekend I taught a class on color at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. I painted a couple demonstrations from life and made a few simple charts for students on warm and cool colors.

Breaking down color into it's most basic elements helps the artist to determine warm verses cool colors.

I broke down a simple painting in a very basic warm and cool abstraction.

Then I show the example of how the warm colors help to understand the light key of a sunny day.

Cultural Center of Cape Cod Demonstration

Yesterday, I painted a demonstration painting at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in Yarmouth. The demonstration was well attended and many artist friends of mine showed up to support my demonstration.

I usually paint a still life but since my workshop coming up is going to be about painting Landscape I decided to go ahead and paint a landscape demonstration.

Using two different paintings as reference,

 I divided the painting in half and on the top painted a sunny day rooftop scene underneath I painted a cloudy day marsh scene.
It was really helpful to see the two very different light keys.