Back by popular demand...
Beginning January 15th, 2024
Learn to use color in fresh and masterful ways.
One surefire way to build an understanding of color is to work with paints – mixing colors and exploring relationships in real time.
This class is designed to teach you how to evaluate colors you see and use, whether you work with paper or fabric. Until you have actually mixed colors together, added white, gray or black, and observed the outcome, color terminology remains a set of terms that can be intimidating and confusing!
The good news is that anyone can learn to look at a color and mix a perfect match. It’s an invaluable skill for every artist, no matter what medium you prefer. Mixing color using French knots is not very different from mixing color with paints from a tube. It’s all about understanding hue, value and the brightness or dullness of a color, which we refer to as intensity – and using the information guide the colors you combine.
Ten weeks of
in-depth color study.
Work at your own pace through a hybrid model of 16+ pre-recorded lessons, live lessons and Q&As.
Three "work weeks" allow for more study and practice, while also giving you a chance to ask Jane questions and learn from other students!
Learn to mix and match any color.
Create valuable tools that will change how you work with color and see color relationships.
Work through detailed assignments that examine complements, analogous colors, triadic colors, split-complements and tetradic schemes.
24/7 access to our members-only online community.
Ask questions, share assignments and get feedback directly from Jane.
Share victories and pitfalls and connect with like-minded creatives!
In addition to making a set of useful tools that will allow you to analyze colors you are using, we will also explore color relationships in detail by creating a series of assignments with hand painted papers.
At the completion of the course, you will have painted a set of color wheels, gray scales, intensity studies, and created collages representing the five primary color relationships: complements, analogous colors, triadic colors, split-complements and tetradic, and will be capable of using color in fresh and masterful ways.
All lessons are recorded for later viewing, as are the live Q&A sessions, and the bonus live lesson. Live events happen on Zoom.
Peak inside the syllabus.
All class materials are yours forever and accessible via our online portal for life.
Painting color wheels
Unraveling the meaning of Intensity – that is, the dullness or brightness of a color
Studying Value and painting Gray Scale tools
Color relationships including complementary colors, and triadic, split-complement, and analogous combinations
How to understand and work with muted color, and the difference between chromatic and achromatic gray
Class access for life.
All class materials, including 16+ video lessons, Q&A recordings and PDF notes are yours forever and accessible via our online portal for life.
16+ video lessons
Three live one-hour Q&A sessions online
Six sets of in-depth PDF notes
Plus bonus appendix materials and live lesson recordings!
Let's talk supplies.
An essential starter kit* is included in your class fee — plus free domestic shipping!
Color Constant cards
Squeegee
Color Wheel Template Thermofax
Color hand-outs for assignments that require them
Additional supplies are required. Download the full supply list below!
Domestic shipping is included. We will ship to international addresses for an added fee of $25.
*Additional supplies must be purchased to completed the class assignments.
Bonus Lecture
The Power of Paint
Previously Recorded
Join me for an in-depth look at comparisons and advice about using different types of paint – transparent, opaque, watercolor weight and metallic!
This lecture will provide a great foundation for jumping into our first lessons! After all, you can never have too much knowledge when it comes to this important aspect of making art, whether you work with mixed media or textiles specifically.
The lecture was recorded and is available for download.
Hear It From Others
Susan N.
Confident Color Student, 2023
This course is an amazing value. The content is extensive and extremely well organized and comes with clear and concise demonstrations. Jane answers individual questions promptly and gives everyone encouragement and support.
In addition to learning about color and how colors relate to each other, each lesson comes with a supporting lecture that gives examples of how artists use the concepts of that lesson lots of examples of specific works of art.
All of the courses that Jane offers are among the very best offered online. They are such fun and Jane is so good at empowering and encouraging everyone to explore and make the content their own.
Sue G.
Confident Color Student, 2023
Jane Dunnewold's Confident Color is worth every penny of the cost.
I have been teaching simple color mixing to elementary students for many years and I have learned a tremendous amount by working through the well thought out exercises presented in this class.
Whether you are a beginner just starting to explore color, or have been mixing colors for a long time, Jane's class is sure to give you a good start, or clarify terms and extend your knowledge and skill when it comes to recognizing and creating colors.
About Your Instructor
Jane Dunnewold teaches and lectures internationally, and has mounted numerous solo exhibitions, including Inspired by the Masters (National Quilt Museum (2020) & Texas Quilt Museum (2018). A second mixed media series featuring re-purposed quilt blocks and gold leaf was exhibited at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas (2017) and more recently at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Fl.
Her archives were recently acquired by the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Her work won Best of Show in the exhibition Timeless Meditations (Tubac Art Center/2013). She is a recipient of the Quilt Japan Prize, and Gold Prize at the Taegue (Korea) International Textile Exhibition. In 2019 she was named Artist of the Year by the San Antonio Art League.
Dunnewold has authored numerous books, including the classic Complex Cloth (1996) and Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design on Fabric (2010.) In 2016 North Light Books published Creative Strength Training: Prompts, Exercises and Stories to Inspire Artistic Genius. Her recently self-published books, Best of Both Worlds: Enhanced Botanical Printing, and Improvisational Screen Printing are both available world-wide on amazon.com.
She is a former President of the Surface Design Association and currently facilitates a ten month Creative Strength Training community online.
