Red and Green make Blue! with Mary Moquin

This workshop will have you mixing colors with confidence in no time! By taking a deep dive into a limited complementary color palette of reds and greens, you will gain of thorough understanding of how color works. This knowledge can then be applied to other suggested limited palettes. Let me help take the mystery out of color theory for you!

About the Instructor: ​Mary L. Moquin

Mary Moquin is a professional artist and teacher. She lives on the cape and spends part of the year in a remote dune cottage on the peninsula known as Sandy Neck in Barnstable, MA. The inspiration for her paintings comes from observing time passing as the light and shadows fall across the structures there. The structures have transformed into metaphors for meditation. Her work has won numerous awards and has been included in several regional and national juried shows. Mary holds a BFA in printmaking and an MFA in painting from Umass Dartmouth. Her work is represented in Wellfleet, MA at the Cove Gallery, North Water Gallery in Edgartown , MA, Alper’s Fine Art in Rockport, MA and at www.marymoquin.com

​Materials:

• ​oil or acrylic paint
  
• ​Cadmium Red Light (a very orangey red)
  
• ​Magenta (a red that leans towards violet)
  
• ​Pthalo Green (an intense blue green)
  
• ​Lemon yellow (we will use this to create a vibrant yellow green)
  
• ​Titanium White
  
• ​(for oil painters, Gamblin Cadmium Chartreuse is a fun color to add and can replace the lemon)
  

PLEASE bring the above colors for a successful experience. Feel free to bring along any other tubes of red or green paint that you have as I will be discussing paint properties and you may want to experiment with other reds and greens. But I know you will have success with the ones I've listed.

• ​A pad of canvas paper at least 16x20, 18x24 preferred. Acrylic painters can use any large sheets of paper instead, oil painters can bring gessoed paper or primed canvas instead of a pad if need be. 
  
• ​Palette knives for mixing paint. 
  
• ​A variety of brushes.
  
• ​Paper towels.