Color Theory Intensive Workshop

Wednesdays: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm November 13 & 20, December 4, 11, 18 Requested donation: $75) for the 5- session class. (If you are unable to pay $75, please donate as you are able.) Your donations ensure the future of Create Space. In this class, Deon Matzen will cover all aspects of color theory for the painter, suitable for watercolor, oil, and acrylic. Exercises will be given in each class and you will go home and finish that day’s exercises. By the end of the intensive you will have a complete notebook full of color references and color scheme examples. Deon Matzen paints in both oil and watercolor, though the watercolor is often on unusual substrates like hardboard She paint animals, old buildings and trucks (unrestored). Recently she started a sequence of watercolor birds. Her main genre is “vanishing rural America.” Her inspiration is anything with color. She has completed 144 dog portrait commissions, several dozen cats, a pig, and a family of ducks. Deon has a degree in fine art and has painted continually since 1995 in watercolor for the first ten years then switching to oils. Now she works with both. She teaches painting to retired folks who are looking for a fulfillment in their retirement years.