10am-4:30pm
Medium: Acrylic or Watercolor (all material provided)

Spice up your still-life paintings with tried-and-true imaginative color combinations!

In cooking, a recipe is a set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of suggested ingredients. In painting, there are also recipes for particular subject matters and painting styles. Except the ingredients are the color combinations and the set of instructions are how to mix and apply these colors together to achieve the right effect.

In this workshop, we’ll apply color recipes Wayne learned over the years as well as color recipes from art history, pop culture, and film. Wayne will guide you in your exploration of color recipes to a more color-rich place. The slideshows, color study exercises, and painting assignments in this workshop have been designed to help you learn how I learned over the years. You’ll learn how to:

• Use simple color theory concepts and logic to determine why some color combinations work and why others don’t.
• Balance color usage by identifying and applying main, supporting, and accent colors in a color recipe.
• Determine the color saturation levels and which areas to apply each color in a color recipe
• Create subtle variations for each color in your color recipes in muted and saturated forms and apply them to your paintings.
• Understand apply color using reflective light, shadows, core and highlights to enhanced still life painting

All color mediums are welcome in this workshop (oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, color pencil, and procreate). The painting demos will be done with acrylic.

This workshop will include painting demos, slideshow presentations, student work feedback sessions, and eye training exercises. This combination of activities is designed to help refine your painting techniques and observation skills. Photo references will be provided for all painting assignments. More experienced students can use their own references and subjects.

Wayne Jiang is a Portland-based realist painter. Combining the aesthetic of 17th century Baroque paintings and the composition of modern documentary photography, his works have been described as the contemporary interpretations of Vermeer and Hopper. His work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries such as the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Triton Museum, Lan Su Chinese Garden, History San José, and Guardino Gallery. Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery. As an art educator, Wayne specializes in teaching acrylic both in person and online. He has been teaching paintings for 15 years. His students are artists with diverse skill levels: from someone who has never painted to professional artists who want to refine their painting skills. Wayne’s deep interest in art history is incorporated in both his paintings and how he teaches.