Planning Colour with Bryan Coombes
About This Experience
Bryan Coombes is eager to demonstrate how to choose paint colours for a painting, likening it to selecting ingredients for a recipe at the grocery store. With the vast array of tube paints available, it's critical for artists to make deliberate decisions to limit their palette—and this is where the excitement begins!
Before discussing colour and its role in expressing responses to a subject, Bryan finds it helpful to view colour as one of four pillars that support any representational painting. A painting consists of four fundamental elements: Color, Values, Edges, and Shapes (Drawing). By recognizing colour as one of these key aspects, artists can begin to make intentional choices about how their finished painting will look, the feelings they want to convey, and the quality of light in the scene.
This demonstration is designed for oil, acrylic, watercolour, and gouache painters who are in the idea-finding and planning stages of the painting process, with the demonstration itself completed in oil.
Materials
Winsor & Newton Artist Colours
Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache
Gamblin Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirit
Princeton Select Artiste Series 3750 Mixed Media Brushes
Strathmore 400 Series Tan Tone Sketchbook
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About Your Host
For Bryan, art and adventure are two sides of the same coin. Adventure acts as a compass, pointing the way forward. When we step into the unknown in search of deeper self-understanding, the best parts of us emerge, revealing who we truly are. This is why we’re here—life is a game we play with ourselves, designed to give our soul an expansive experience of our own choosing. Bryan’s hope is that his art embodies adventure, exploration, and the richness of my life experiences. As a former commercial pilot, mountaineer, and outdoorsman, Bryan loves being in nature—riding his motorcycle, paddling, fishing, travelling, and, above all, creating art.
Bryan is a Signature member of Artists for Conservation, and Vice President of the West Fine Art Society. His work can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada and the USA.
Website: bryancoobesart.com
Instagram: @bryancoombesart
Facebook: @BryanCoombesArtStudios
