March 31 – May 5, 2025 – Playing with Color with Victoria Templeton

Playing with Color with Victoria Templeton
Mondays 9:30am – 12:30pm (6 classes)
March 31 – May 5, 2025
Cost: $155 Members / $185 Non-Members 
Location: Cape Cod Art Center, Studio A

Color functions as a powerful visual language that evokes responses from both the artist and viewer. It enhances principles of art, conveying shape, movement, unity, value, and harmony, while also creating emotion, suggesting temperature, depth, and atmosphere within compositions. In this session, you will explore color elements like value, hue, saturation, luminosity, and relationships to create impactful work. We will focus on selecting palettes that express your emotions and ideas. Discussions on the psychological impacts of colors and their use in conveying emotions or themes will complement practical exercises. You’ll also study examples of artists who skillfully used color, providing inspiration and context. This class is for
advanced or experienced painters. Participants should bring their preferred paint medium.
Supplies:
A binder or pocket folder for handouts
Various drawing materials: pencil, pen, charcoal, felt tip, etc.
Drawing papers or notebook whatever you have around (newsprint, copy, typing…)
Printed out photos you took or painted studies to work from. (no magazine) Bring references
that inspire you to paint!
Black and white acrylics regardless of your medium.
Brushes
Palette knife to mix with
Matboard scraps or mixed media paper 8×10 or larger
Ruler

Colors: You don’t need to buy paint now. Use any of the colors listed if you have them. We’ll work with what you have. Select one or more from each category from your own supplies.

Yellow: A pure yellow (cad yellow light or hansa yellow)
Yellow Orange: a yellow with an orange tint (Cad Yellow med or deep, azo or auroelin)
Optional Yellow Green: a yellow with a slight green tinge (lemon, cinnabar green, greenish yellow)
Red: a pure red (quinacridone red, primary red, pyrrole red, brilliant red)
Red/orange a red that’s a little on the orange side (cad red light, vermillion, scarlet, naphol red light)
Red/Purple a red on the purple/blue side (magenta, quinacridone magenta, alizarin, red violet)
Green/yellow: a green that is on the yellow side (cinnabar green light, yellow green, sap)
Blue/green: a blue that is on the green side (phalo green, viridian)
Blue: pure blue (cobalt, royal blue,)
Blue/Purple: a blue that leans towards purple (ultramarine blue, indigo)
Purple: dioxanine purple, winsor violet
White: titanium (feel free to bring others to explore)
Black: Ivory, Mars, Lamp
Earth Tones: Burnt umber, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Raw Umber, Ochres

Artist Bio: A native San Franciscan and longtime California resident, Victoria discovered multiple forms of creative art everywhere. The abundance of fresh emerging art and old masters works inspired her drawing and painting at an early age. She majored in acting at Loyola Marymount University and studied costume design. For over twenty years she worked management in the luxury fashion industry. She loved the passion and creative process of designers. In the 1990’s, she explored fashion design and illustration but found her true life passion was fine art painting. In 2000, she studied with Roger Armstrong, a master painter and school founder at the Laguna College of Art and Design. With Roger as her mentor, Victoria learned boldness and to take risks. “It’s only paint and paper” he told her. Roger introduced her to plein air and shared many approaches to outdoor painting. He was one of the first participants in the famous Laguna Beach Invitational for Plein Air. When he died in 2007, the Irvine Fine Art Center asked Victoria to continue his class. She discovered another ardor, teaching. Her approach, like her mentor, encouraged students to lose fear, take risks and view painting as a process. Her key mantra is “Express your voice.” Later in 2015, Victoria and her husband, Bob, retired to Barnstable in Cape Cod. She put teaching aside and focused on building a body of new artwork, trying out new techniques. She occupies studio space at The Old Schoolhouse in Barnstable Village. She is a continuous participant of the CCAC plein air group and contributed to their second 2019 edition of Plein Air Painting on Cape Cod. She received recognition in several Cape Cod exhibitions. She is a juried member of the Cape Cod Art Center and happily teaching again.

“Child-like curiosity and play remains the most important part of my work. When I trust creative energy and stop my critic’s chatter, my paintings reflect the authentic relationship I forged with the subject. I paint in all mediums, using what feels best for me that day. I remember Roger’s motto- It is only paint and paper!”
www.victoriatempletonart.com
Instragram: @brushandpenmakeart