In-Person Class: Color Theory for Vibrant Watercolors

  • Saturday, July 19 - Sunday, July 20
  • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM MT
  • O'KEEFFE MUSEUM CREATIVITY STUDIO | CORNER OF W MARCY ST AND SHERIDAN ST, SANTA FE, NM

Registration required. Space is limited. Please email contact@gokm.org or call 505-946-1000 for assistance with registration.

In this two-day workshop, learn the key concepts behind creating clean and clear mixes for painting in watercolor.

Part I | Saturday, July 19, 10 AM–1 PM

Part II | Sunday, July 20, 10 AM–1 PM

By using cyan, magenta, and yellow as the primaries for your color palette, teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta will teach you to make informed decisions in order to achieve predictable color mixes that are rich, vibrant, and transparent. A longtime educator in the field of color theory, Sudeshna will lead hands-on paint-mixing exercises and will break down paint-mixing fundamentals by arranging a palette to be a working color wheel. 

This class is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. Children are welcome to participate alongside their adults.

Space is limited, reservations required. Please email contact@gokm.org or call 505.946.1000 for assistance with event registration.

This class will meet at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Creativity Studio, which is located on the corner of Marcy Street and Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM. Registrants will be notified 24 hours in advance if the lesson is to be canceled.

About the Instructor:

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Sudeshna Sengupta’s career as a teaching artist spans multiple decades, continents, and cultures that inform her pedagogy for decolonizing studio art. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1985 from Visva-Bharati University, founded by the first non-European Nobel Laureate (1913) and humanist poet Rabindranath Tagore.

After teaching art and design at the college level in New Delhi, Seattle, and California, she taught at New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, where she established its first intaglio printmaking studio in 1995. Besides the O’Keeffe Museum, Sengupta teaches credit courses with the School of Art & Design of the Santa Fe Community College.

Her etchings and lithographs from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi have been featured in a landmark exhibition on Women Printmakers of India at the NGMA-New Delhi in India. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Association Musée d’Art Contemporain, France; Kala Institute, Berkeley, and more.

Sengupta also conducts workshops, short courses, lectures, and community-based art events focusing on multicultural and intercultural experiences that emphasize human, cultural, and environmental connectedness through creativity.

To learn more, please visit notes-and-doodles.com and visit her Instagram @santafe_online_art_studio

Registration

All supplies are included: Members $55 | Non-members $65

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