Oil Painting

In the fall 2006 issue of Workshop magazine, Timothy R. Thies taught students how to capture the temperatures of light and shadow in their landscape paintings. Here, we offer an excerpt from the article regarding color charts. by Edith Zimmerman A few weeks before the workshop, Thies sent each of his students a packet of information about how to make color charts before arriving for the three-day event. He encouraged the artists to complete the color charts to better understand not only the colors they were using but also how they interact with one another. “How many times have you…