Smudge It! Charcoal drawing workshop series hosted at the friendly and bright Margaret Lane Gallery at their new Corbin location in Hillsborough, NC, for 3 Wednesday evenings in June. Materials supplied. Take home your own charcoal set! You can save and sign up for all three, or you are welcome to just take one at a time. Details here.

Red, Bright & Blue: Color is our primary concern in these 3 Wednesday evening painting workshops in July, led by Wendy Aldwyn.

Red, Bright & Blue: Color is our primary concern in these 3 Wednesday evening painting workshops in July, led by Wendy Aldwyn. We’ll create compositions with all the colors of the rainbow, and then some, with just the 3 primary colors plus black and white. As we play with paint, we‘ll experiment with hue, saturation and value, and look at additive (RGB) and subtractive (CMYK) color systems.

July 12: Red, with mixed emotions
What colors can we mix with that most passionate of colors, red, to enhance or to soothe our longings? For hummingbirds to humans, red is the color that attracts. As we dabble in our paints, we’ll look at how red works in harmony and in dissonance with other colors that we’ll invent with our basic primary palette.

July 19: Bright, the color of light
White are the rays from our yellow sun. A color split into rainbows, then back into one. We’ll create rainbow colors, then focus on chiaroscuro, a study of light and dark practiced by the old masters.

July 26: Blue, the color that stands alone
From the heavenly vault to the ocean depths, blue is the color that quiets and inspires us. Picasso had his “Blue Period,” so will we, as we explore the monochromatic power of blue, and the colors that warm and cool its solitary spirit.

Materials provided. Sign up for one, or sign up for all 3 workshops and save! Details here.