Resources from weekend Portrait workshop

Hello my lovely workshop alumni! Here are some links, photos and downloads that I talked about during our workshop on the weekend.

Here's the link to a nice clear version of the colour wheel by Stephen Quiller that I found online. It is from his book 'Colour Choices'.

This is the colour recipe book for portraits that I cautiously recommend. Cautiously because I don't want you to get too hung up on measuring your quantities of paint in your mixes (unless you want to, of course). I feel that it is better to use the suggestions for the paint colours, and then have a play for yourself on what warm and cool hues and light and dark tones you can make with those.

Here's the slideshow from a recent workshop that I showed you briefly. It has examples of some of those colour palettes, and some other resources.

Qld Art Teachers’ Association workshop (smaller size pdf)- Nambour.pdf

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If you want to use up some excess paint and do some exercises to practise the different secondary colours that your cool and warm primary colours make, you can do this exercise.

(I didn't get around to doing the orange, but you get the idea]

You can also do this exercise to discover all the lovely chromatic greys between complementary colours.

A pretty rough example showing the 'greys' between yellow and purple.

Some other things I mentioned are:

The Art Shop for good prices on art materials

Rosemary and Co for good oil painting brushes. I have some here that you are welcome to buy for my cost price (plus about $2 each for what I had to pay for postage).