Color Makes Me Happy

One-Day Acrylic Workshop with Sally
Unlock the Exciting Mystery of Color and Bring Your Paintings to Life!

Instructor: Sally Evans
Date: August 9th, 2025
Time: 10:00AM – 5:00PM
Price: $125
Materials available for additional fee of $25

Join artist Sally for a joyful and transformative workshop focused on the expressive power of color. Whether you’re new to painting or looking to strengthen your color confidence, this workshop will deepen your understanding of color theory and bring fresh energy to your acrylic work.

What You’ll Learn:

Color Theory Simplified – Explore how color relationships, value, and harmony impact your work.
Acrylic Techniques – Watch Sally’s live demos and learn modern acrylic applications.
Color Mixing & Selection – Build skills through hands-on mixing exercises.
Design & Self-Expression – Learn how to balance color with strong composition and personal style.
Values, Tints, Tones & Grays – Gain clarity on how to use subtle shifts in color to create mood and depth.

This class is packed with useful insights, fun exercises, and inspiring guidance to help you use color with confidence and joy.

Come ready to play, explore, and fall in love with color all over again!

The Materials will be available for purchase for $25

or you can bring your own art materials:

(students can purchase the hues of the cadmium colors)

Cadmium Yellow Light or Lemon Y
ellow or hansa yellow

Cadmium yellow medium (if you have it)
Thalo Green Blue Shade
Phtholoycyanine blue green shade
Ultramarine Blue
Cadmium Red or pyrrole red

Burnt Sienna
Quinacridone Red or alizarin crimson

Quinacridrone Magenta
Titanium White (large Tube)
Carbon Black (Golden Brand)

Paynes gray (if you have it)

I use Utrecht heavy body paints in acrylics, golden paints and golden fluid paints are all good choices

Golden Gloss glazing medium for blending paints and keeping them wet longer.

Art Supply Places

Good Places to order paints online

Blick art suppiles
jerry’s artarama

They have paints in large tubes for good prices

Stores: Sam Flax Orlando

Supplies

Canvas or Canvas boards these sizes.

1 8×10

1 10×10 they can buy them from me.

We will be working on small color exercises. I will provide the paper for that.

Paper Palette 9×12 or 11×14 or large Paper plates

I use a stay wet palette works great for acrylics

Spray bottle for water (use a misting bottle to keep my paints wet)

Brushes: Bring what you have and we will have some to share

I use these

Round #4 #6 #8, #10
Filbert and bright same sizes. Student will need a mix of natural hairs and synthetic brushes.
Bring any other brushes they already own

Script liner brush also known as a rigger for outlining

Container for water to clean brushes

Paper towels

Apron

Pencils for sketching and a kneaded eraser

sketch book for notes

Color wheel (the pocket one is good). I also have the Analogous Color Wheel by Hal Reed – I think you can get these on Amazon

Color Makes Me Happy – One-Day Acrylic Workshop with Sally