Learn a fun technique for making paintings by substituting colors for values and take home a completed colorful project.
What You Will Learn:
How to evaluate a black and white photo to see different values and number them.
How to transfer a black and white photo to your canvas (same size)
How to paint a colorful version of a black and white photo by substituting color based on the value scale number.
Who Should Participate:
This workshop is open to Beginners, intermediate, advanced. No prior skills necessary .
What to Bring:
Your preferred painting medium (watercolor, acrylic, pastel, oil, etc)
Painting surface (canvas, paper, etc)
A black and white photo printed on regular paper of a pet, person, or interesting subject that you would like to paint in a colorful way printed on paper the same size as your painting surface .
Note: If you don’t have access to a printer, email your photo to shawndelljoyce@gmail.com and she will print it for you.
About Your Instructor:
Shawn Dell Joyce founded a plein air school with an Arts and Agricultural mission based on the historic Hudson River School, called the Wallkill River School of Art. She is a signature member of New York Plein Air Painters (NYPAP), and International Plein Air Painters (IPAP), and has been featured in many national newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, Plein Air Magazine, Plein Air Podcast with Eric Rhoads, Pastel Journal Magazine, Tampa Bay Magazine. She is represented by six galleries around the country including Wallkill River School in NY, Woodfield Fine Art in St. Pete, and Lakeside Inn Gallery in Mount Dora, FL. She teaches workshops in pastel and plein air techniques across the country in Staunton, VA, Olana, NY, Tampa Bay Florida, and is included in museum collections in the Georges Pompidou Museum in France and the Museum of Modern Art in NY. She recently won the Creative Pinellas grant for established artists in 2023. ShawnDellJoyce.com