Instructor: Carol Pelletier
Wednesday - Thursday
June 8 & 9
10am - 4pm
2 sessions
This workshop will cover the properties of oil paint and pigment stick with its transparencies, opacities and semi-transparencies and how they can be used with cold wax medium in your own painting. This workshop will focus on combining color theory with the translucency of cold wax medium. Whether you are interested in creating thin veils of color suspended in wax or building impasto-like surfaces that can be etched or carved back into, this workshop will make your decision process a little easier. We will cover pigment intensity and desaturation, color harmonies, neutral tinting, color that breaks the traditional rules of oil painting and color that can bring light and movement to the surface.
Carol Pelletier is the Chair of Fine Arts and Professor of Art at Endicott College, located on the north shore of Boston. She received her BFA through the University of Maine and MFA from James Madison University. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows nationally and internationally, including the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Boecker Contemporary in Heidelberg Germany, Centre d'Art Contemporain Metz France, the Acadian Museum in Moncton and Prince Edward Island, Saint-Mary's University in Nova Scotia, the Cynthia Winings Gallery, Julie Heller East, the Attleboro Art Museum, the Becket Arts Center, Soren Christensen, Olson-Larsen Gallery, Berea College and Marietta College to name a few. She has received three National Endowment for the Arts Grants, including a Fellowship grant to honor her achievement in the field of Fine Arts. She has also received a Mellon Foundation grant and is a Salzburg Fellow. Her work has been in multiple catalog exhibitions and publications including the New American Paintings juried by Beth Venn, Studio Visit Magazine, juried by Carl Belz, Southwest Art Magazine “The Landscape Issue”, Creative Quarterly, Bloom Literary Journal in Los Angeles, Artscope: New England's Culture Magazine, Visual Overture and RiverLit Magazines. She is represented by the Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill, Maine. and Morpeth Contemporary in Hopewell, NJ.