CLARTSA201 - Color Theory and Painting
Celebrate the power of color in this course for beginning, intermediate and advanced acrylic painters. Gain mastery over your compositions by learning about color theory, paint mixing and application. Deepen your understanding of primary, secondary and tertiary colors; tints; and shades. Enhance your skills at creating hot and cold color variations as well as neutrals and grays. Explore how painters like Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian, Joan Mitchell and Julie Mehretu have harnessed color to engage viewers and animate their work. This class includes demonstrations, optional weekly assignments, critiques and one field trip to a local museum, gallery or artist’s studio.
Course Details
Ellen Orseck, M.A., M.A.T., is a Houston-based artist whose artwork has been exhibited across Texas as well as in New York City and Lima, Peru. She has been awarded several commissions from state art councils, corporate collections and private patrons, and was a finalist for the Hunting Prize. Ms. Orseck shows her work at Carolyn Garcia Gallery, Winter Street Studios, Sabine Studios and Mother Dog Studios in Houston. One of her paintings is in the permanent collection of the Myrtle Beach Art Museum, and another is in the permanent collection of The Jung Center, Houston. Her education includes four years at the Glassell School of Art. Ms. Orseck holds a master’s degree in painting from New York University and a master’s degree in museum education from George Washington University. She has taken a course in old master painting from the New York Academy of Art and was among a small cohort selected to participate in an intensive workshop with artist Eric Fischl.
On Campus
This course will be delivered on campus / in person. Parking and room information will be sent prior to the class start date.
Fee does not include cost of supplies, approximately $150 or higher depending on media selected. Supply lists for studio art are shared two weeks before the course start date. Contact cpcoord@rice.edu with questions. Participants are responsible for arranging their own transportation for the course field trip.