Color and Light: Building Your Painting
Summer Class | Available
Color doesn't have to be overwhelming. This four-week oil painting class is built around color temperature and a limited palette. Working from still life arrangements in the studio, you'll learn how warm and cool relationships create the illusion of light, how to mix clean, consistent color, and how to build a painting with a limited set of pigments that can do everything you need. Practical, hands-on, step-by-step painting from day one.
- Paint
Titanium White
Ultramarine Blue
Winsor Red or Cadmium Red Medium
Burnt Sienna
Yellow Ochre
Winsor Lemon, Cadmium Yellow Light, or Lemon Yellow
Brushes & Tools
Bristle brushes, 2–3 sizes
Palette knife and painting knife
Palette
Medium & Solvent
Liquin or Gamblin Galkyd Gel
Solvent: Turpenoid or Gamsol
Jars or cups for medium and solvent
Painting Surface
Canvas, Masonite board, wooden panel, or oil painting pad
Other
Painting rags
Kate Mundie
KateKernMundie | Explore Art & Inspire Action
Kate Kern Mundie (b. 1974) is a mid-career artist rooted firmly in the rich tradition of American realism. Her work reflects both urban streets and rural landscapes, capturing moments of beauty in the environment. She considers her work part of the environmental realism movement. Through her paintings, she skillfully portrays the impact of climate change and human influence on the evolving landscape.
Kate Kern Mundie’s artwork is in the collection of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and numerous private collections. Kate is a two-time winner of the Fred & Naomi Hazell Faculty Fellowship from the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial. She has also been a recipient of an artist residency at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Nova Scotia, and the Thrive Together Network Virtual Artist Residency. Additionally, her work has been featured on film and book covers.
A proud alumna of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied printmaking and painting, Kate also holds a BFA. from the University of Pennsylvania. She resides in Philadelphia with her husband and fellow artist, James Mundie, and their children, while also being part of the artist community on Deer Isle in Maine. Kate’s work offers a profound exploration of the American landscape and the societal forces that shape it.