Complete Courses
This course includes all four Color Clinic workshops and supplemental materials PLUS, 4 extra videos. (See Color Clinic individual titles 1-4 below for descriptions.) Whether a beginner or seasoned professional, you will learn invaluable information that informs your work for the rest of your life. Over 6 hours of video! Also hear from special guests Scott Gelatly, Kevin Macpherson, Dawn Whitelaw, and Colin Page.
Topics covered:
Color mixing
Relativity
Value of color
Optical illusions
Vibration
Using color to show form
Color harmony
Transitions
Experimental mixtures
Your personal color voice
Color key
Creative color
Total video(s) running time: 6.5 hours
For a third of the cost of a group workshop, A Virtual Retreat to Sicily, Coursework Package, contains everything you need to learn to identify different types of light in the landscape with over 4.5 hours of video.
Through this course, three totally different painting processes are demonstrated to teach you how to make the most clear visual statement.
Using the videos and additional pdf files provided, you will be guided through a complete course.
Here is what you will learn:
Painting Light and Shadow, and not getting too dark.
Composing and Simplifying the Scene
Tips for Value and Color
Painting Backlight, ah... that's where the color is!
Connecting Shapes
Painting a Nocturne, and advice for how to do it en plein air.
Reference photos from Sicily that are used in the demonstrations, as well as additional photos to extend your practice are also included.
Total video(s) running time: 4.5 hours
Individual Video Titles for Rent or Purchase.
Color Clinic 1.
The best way to learn how to mix accurate color and value, is by using a limited color palette. Don’t be fooled that this Color Clinic is strictly for beginners! Everyone can benefit by learning how to use these 3 colors plus white. In fact, for over 6 years, I used nothing else! What I learned was invaluable, and allows me to experiment with color today that I could never have done if I had not learn this way of thinking.
In this clinic, you will work hands on to mix color formulas I demonstrate for you. Additional supporting materials include information on how to mix even more combinations on your own time.
Thanks to our special guest, Scott Gellatly of Gamblin Oils.
Original live workshop date: April 1, 2020
NOTE: If you purchase any of the Color Clinic Videos and wish to upgrade to the Complete Color Course, please email support@loriputnam.com for a coupon worth the price you have already paid.
$29.99 US (purchase and watch or download)
Color Clinic 4.
This is the fourth (and tentatively final) installment in the Color Clinic LIVE series. Finding a color voice that is uniquely yours can sometimes feel like spinning in circles. You are all over the place, and not in a good way. In this hands-on workshop, Lori will share personal insights into her own color journey, and leave you with thoughts on how to begin yours. Topics will include:
Influences
Use of key
Color suffusion
Personal creativity
Our special guest for this workshop was Colin Page who talked about his color influences and how he developed his unique voice.
Original live workshop: Sept. 18, 2020
NOTE: If you purchase any of the Color Clinic Videos and wish to upgrade to the Complete Color Course, please email support@loriputnam.com for a coupon worth the price you have already paid.
$29.95 (purchase and watch or download)
Mastering Paint Consistency:
An Alla Prima Approach.
In this 2-hour, complete demonstration, Lori Putnam shows you step-by-step one method for working alla prima (all-one-sitting). Working wet-on-wet, you will see how she works to apply paint at different consistencies. Discussion of brushes and tools is also a big part of the video. Watch Lori mix color and take you through 6 stages of paint layering. From "broth" to "butter" and everything in between.
$49.99 (purchase and watch or download)
Painting the Portrait 1.
Whether you are new to portrait painting or needing some new ideas, this complete demonstration will guide you through some of the most important aspects of portrait painting.
$49.99 US (purchase and watch or download)
Direct Painting Method.
Color mixing, direct painting methods, and brush and tool fun are all included in this full-length painting demonstration. Lori shows you a method you will only see in one of her more advanced workshops.
$49.99 US (purchase and watch or download)
Color Clinic 2.
Color Clinic 2 picks up where Color Clinic 1 ends. Still working with these 3 colors plus white, Lori will introduce you to:
Color relativity
Value in color
Optical illusions
Using color vibration
This is a hands-on workshop that includes two worksheets to further your color understanding and growth.
Be sure to watch to the end. This workshop’s special guest was Kevin Macpherson. Kevin answered some wonderful questions on relativity, and in true Kevin fashion, kept us laughing the whole time.
Original live workshop date: July 10, 2020
NOTE: If you purchase any of the Color Clinic Videos and wish to upgrade to the Complete Color Course, please email support@loriputnam.com for a coupon worth the price you have already paid.
$29.99 US (purchase and watch or download)
Intro to Oil Workshop.
For beginners or anyone wanting to revisit the basics.
This is from one of Lori Putnam's live workshops. Learn the basics of oil painting. Using your own set-up, follow along as Lori introduces you to supplies, paint application, and terminology.
Our special guest for this workshop was Michael Shane Neal. Shane spoke about his humble beginnings, answered questions, and shared a very special palette used by John Singer Sargent, passed down to Shane from Everette Raymond Kinstler.
Includes 8 additional downloadable files: Intro to Oils Supply list; Intro to Oils Supplement Information; How to Set Up; How to Lay Out Your Palette; Value Scale; Traditional Color Wheel; Color as Value; Color Palette as Complements.
Set up and paint in oil today!
Original live workshop date: April 30, 2020
$49.95 US (purchase and watch or download)
Plein air, Light and Shadow.
Learning to paint light and shadow is tougher than you think, especially when you are painting en plein air. In this full-length demonstration, Lori shows you the tricks to getting it right and keeping it right!
$49.99 US (purchase and watch or download)
Painting White Roses.
A complete demonstration of painting what can be a difficult subject. Understanding where the color lies, what values and edges to find, and how to construct the painting are all discussed in this full-length demonstration.
$45.99 US (purchase and watch or download)
Color Clinic 3.
The third in the series of Color Clinic LIVE workshops. This session is shaping up to be the most fun clinic yet! Take part in this hands-on workshop as Lori introduces you to:
Using color to show form
Easy harmony using color bending
How to work with color transitions
Experimental mixtures and secret shortcuts
This clinic’s guest was Dawn Whitelaw. Dawn shared some wonderful insight into colorful transitions.
Original live workshop date: Aug. 4
NOTE: If you purchase any of the Color Clinic Videos and wish to upgrade to the Complete Color Course, please email support@loriputnam.com for a coupon worth the price you have already paid.
$29.99 US (purchase and watch or download)
Brushwork 1.
Brushes… of course you know how to use one, right? I think you will be surprised at some of the great marks you can make that you never tried. Although I will be using oil, I think you will find the discussion of brush hair types interesting for all media. In fact, some of the brushes I use are made for watercolors. There is really no end to what a brush can do. Our special guest was Symi Jackson of Rosemary & Co Brushes!
This was a demonstration-only workshop with encouraged experiment and play time on your own.
Includes two supplemental materials.
Original live workshop date: April 17, 2020
$19.95 US (purchase and watch or download)
Plein air St. Michaels.
Full-length video produced by the pros at Plein air Easton. I talk you through every step of the process from beginning to end in this full-length demonstration en plein air. Created in the historic Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
$50.00 US (rental only)
Sorry. I cannot offer discounts on this video. It is offered exclusively through Plein air Easton.
Technique and Color.
See all of Lori’s color mixtures and painting techniques as well as how she uses plein air reference to create in the studio. Over 2-hours, this is one of Lori’s most complete studio videos yet!
$49.99 US (purchase and watch or download)
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