Personal Color Wheel Workshop with Lisa Solomon - The Color Series

This class is part of the four-part virtual Color Series. This class may be purchased à la carte at $75 or as part of a four-part package for a discounted price of $240.

In this workshop we’ll crack open the world of color and using painting as a means of exploration and potentially relaxation.  After a quick exercise to understand the paints in your palette, Lisa will walk you through a personal approach to color wheels. This will allow you to ponder how materials and other influences can impact our perception of color, and how to begin to develop and understand your own personal relationship with color.  We’ll discuss some basic color “truths”, how color affects us, and some basic color theory/schemes. We’ll end class with aColor Meditation - a practice Lisa has instituted in her own studio for years now.

Participants should bring a watercolor sketchbook or paper and their favorite watercolor palette/paints and their favorite brushes.  Students should have a minimum of 6 colors (there is no maximum!) that include a set of primaries - aka a red/scarlet or magenta, a yellow and some kind of blue/cyan. The class will also be an opportunity to ask Lisa questions about watercolor techniques.

Date + Time

Friday, May 30th, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:30 pm EST

Location

Zoom, a link will be emailed to participants before the workshop.

Cost

$75 for the individual workshop
$240 for the series

Our Teacher

Lisa Solomon resides in Oakland, California with her husband, daughter, an assortment of oddball rescue pets, a garden, a backyard studio, and a bevy of art supplies including many, many spools of thread (Gutterman is her favorite), quite a collection of embroidery floss, and enough watercolor to last for the next five years (she hopes). She received her BA in art practice from UC Berkeley, her MFA from Mills College, and has been an Adjunct/Visiting Professor in the Bay Area for over twenty years. Her layered mixed-media works and grand-sized installations often utilize unconventional mediums, humor, and color to explore gender, identity, and personal histories, as well as the nature ofartandcraftitself. As a Hapa (her mother is Japanese, her father Caucasian), she sees hybridity—in materials, in concept—as integral to her practice. 

She is the author ofA Field Guide to Color a watercolor workshop that teaches color theory,The Color Meditation Deck – a set of cards that guides people on how to create small meditative watercolor works, as well asCrayola: A Visual Biography of the World’s Most Famous Crayon,amongst other titles.

Solomon’s work has exhibited throughout the United States, as well as internationally in a multitude of venues including the Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles, the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek in an exhibition entitled A Beautiful Mess which has travelled to over 10 museums around the country, the Koumi Machi Museum in Nagano Japan, and recently had a mid-career survey at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. She has been an artist in residence in several locales including the Ulrich Museum in Wichita, KS, the San Jose Quilt and Textile Museum, Irving Street Projects in San Francisco.

*This class session will be recorded. A link to the recording will be emailed to all those who register following the live session. This link is live for one month for you to watch at your convenience.