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EVANS ENCAUSTICS — color

NEW classes in Atlanta!

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Are you an artist interested in small class size in Atlanta in any of these topics: Cold Wax Painting and Printmaking, Encaustic Monotypes, Oil Painting (with or without wax) Indoors or Plein Air, and Evans Color Theory  There will be no more than three students in each class and all materials will be provided. Contact Hylla Evans by email hylla@comcast.net or phone 707-996-5840 and we can discuss details.


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Painting: Color Dominates 2012

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First, an artist wants you to see.  Keep going – think.  As the viewer, feeling a response to colors comes easily. Working harder, examining and exploring the chromatic decisions each artist made will give you a sense of the internal conversation, the conflict or stillness each artist resolves in her own way.
Colors are oft manipulated to be representational, evocative, expressive, motivational,...

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Color Charting - How & Why

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Color Charting Pack 


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Record color swatches used in each painting along with info on medium, brand, color name, and tints (lightened with white). You can then work back into the painting and see instantly how you made each mixed color.
Plein air painters make the chart while painting to capture color mixes better than a camera.
After a painting sells, keep the actual Color Charting in...

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