Color Play in Oils or Acrylics 1-Day Workshop with Susan Overstreet

Friday, February 14, 2025, from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. Member $80 / Non-Member $95

Materials list: student-supplied, see below or download the PDF

Suitable for Beginner to Advanced students. Learn how to achieve bright, bold, and beautiful color in this one-day workshop with colorist Susan Overstreet. Enjoy a lively day of experimentation as we mix prismatic pigments to create a series of small color studies. The workshop will explore a variety of color schemes from the warm/cool primary palette. Bring a bag lunch, we will have a lunch break with discussion, questions, review.

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Material List

• Paints: warm and cool of each of the primary colors (example: lemon yellow, cadmium yellow medium, ultramarine blue, manganese blue, cadmium red medium, permanent rose, plus white)

• Palette paper

• Palette knife

• Variety of brushes

• Five or six canvases (8x10, 9x12, 11x14, or squares up to 12x12)

• Rags or paper towels

Susan Overstreet’s creative process of weaving vibrant colors with a technique of palette knife and brushwork captures a visual tapestry between abstract imagery and representation. Overstreet’s bold expressive style is driven by unique natural elements found on Cape Cod that offer an evolving kaleidoscope of color. She paints en plein air and in the studio, inspired by both landscape and the human figure. 

Susan completed studio work at George Washington University, and continued studying fine arts at the Corcoran School of Art and the Art League School of Alexandria. Her work was accepted in many juried competitions in Virginia and now on Cape Cod. Susan has taught at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Milford Arts Council, the Cultural Center of Cape Cod (where she served as artist in residence and learning coordinator), the Creative Arts Center of Chatham, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She has led sketching tours to Scotland and France. She is represented by Tracy Lindholm Nee, 780 Main Street in Dennis, MA.  SusanOverstreet.com

Cancellation policy: CCMoA must be notified 1 week prior for refund.