Living and Painting in Color (Lecture Recording) Summer 2025 w/ Tom Balderas
**Please know that this is only a recording of the demo. The recording can be viewed for 3 months from the date of purchase.
*The recording is 1 hour and 32 minutes in length.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for the recording link.
Lecture Description
Living and Painting in Color - The Colorist Mindset and Approach to Painting.
Join Tom for an enlightening talk about one of his favorite approaches to painting. Tom will discuss the mindset of the colorist. Tom will speak to influences and will offer a keynote presentation that will have representative examples of paintings that express the Ideas presented.
There will be a short demonstration of what his ideas look like in the act of creating a study.
- Color vs Value
- Slide Show of Examples
- Short Painting Demonstration of Ideas Presented
- Questions and Answers Segment
Lecture Material List
Paints:
Your choice of student or professional grade paint. Oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, gouache
Blues:
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean
Greens:
Phthalo Green or Viridian
Reds:
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Red Light or Medium
Yellow:
Ochre
Cadmium Yellow Light or Medium
Others:
Titanium White
Black
Palette
Preferably at least a 16x20 palette / Glass is great with a neutral gray paper underneath, wood. Paper palettes are cost effective and work well but not highly recommended.
Palette knife (optional) size and shape of your choice.
Brushes:
Sizes - your choosing but I recommend at least three. Numbers 2, 8, 12 (I use Hog Hair bristle filbert brushes)
Odorless Turpentine/Paint thinner:
1 - Decent size jar or can for cleaning brushes
1 - Decent size jar or can for clean turpentine mixing
Paper towels
Paint scraper (for cleaning palette)
Supports:
Cotton or linen canvas, gessoed paper, cardboard and/or masonite. Recommend sizes: 6x8, 8x10, 11x14, 16x20, 20x24 or larger.
Pencil, charcoal or conte
Sketch or note book.
Easel
**Please know that this is only a recording of the demo. The recording can be viewed for 3 months from the date of purchase.
*The recording is 1 hour and 32 minutes in length.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for the recording link.
Lecture Description
Living and Painting in Color - The Colorist Mindset and Approach to Painting.
Join Tom for an enlightening talk about one of his favorite approaches to painting. Tom will discuss the mindset of the colorist. Tom will speak to influences and will offer a keynote presentation that will have representative examples of paintings that express the Ideas presented.
There will be a short demonstration of what his ideas look like in the act of creating a study.
- Color vs Value
- Slide Show of Examples
- Short Painting Demonstration of Ideas Presented
- Questions and Answers Segment
Lecture Material List
Paints:
Your choice of student or professional grade paint. Oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, gouache
Blues:
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean
Greens:
Phthalo Green or Viridian
Reds:
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Red Light or Medium
Yellow:
Ochre
Cadmium Yellow Light or Medium
Others:
Titanium White
Black
Palette
Preferably at least a 16x20 palette / Glass is great with a neutral gray paper underneath, wood. Paper palettes are cost effective and work well but not highly recommended.
Palette knife (optional) size and shape of your choice.
Brushes:
Sizes - your choosing but I recommend at least three. Numbers 2, 8, 12 (I use Hog Hair bristle filbert brushes)
Odorless Turpentine/Paint thinner:
1 - Decent size jar or can for cleaning brushes
1 - Decent size jar or can for clean turpentine mixing
Paper towels
Paint scraper (for cleaning palette)
Supports:
Cotton or linen canvas, gessoed paper, cardboard and/or masonite. Recommend sizes: 6x8, 8x10, 11x14, 16x20, 20x24 or larger.
Pencil, charcoal or conte
Sketch or note book.
Easel
**Please know that this is only a recording of the demo. The recording can be viewed for 3 months from the date of purchase.
*The recording is 1 hour and 32 minutes in length.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for the recording link.
Lecture Description
Living and Painting in Color - The Colorist Mindset and Approach to Painting.
Join Tom for an enlightening talk about one of his favorite approaches to painting. Tom will discuss the mindset of the colorist. Tom will speak to influences and will offer a keynote presentation that will have representative examples of paintings that express the Ideas presented.
There will be a short demonstration of what his ideas look like in the act of creating a study.
- Color vs Value
- Slide Show of Examples
- Short Painting Demonstration of Ideas Presented
- Questions and Answers Segment
Lecture Material List
Paints:
Your choice of student or professional grade paint. Oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, gouache
Blues:
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean
Greens:
Phthalo Green or Viridian
Reds:
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Red Light or Medium
Yellow:
Ochre
Cadmium Yellow Light or Medium
Others:
Titanium White
Black
Palette
Preferably at least a 16x20 palette / Glass is great with a neutral gray paper underneath, wood. Paper palettes are cost effective and work well but not highly recommended.
Palette knife (optional) size and shape of your choice.
Brushes:
Sizes - your choosing but I recommend at least three. Numbers 2, 8, 12 (I use Hog Hair bristle filbert brushes)
Odorless Turpentine/Paint thinner:
1 - Decent size jar or can for cleaning brushes
1 - Decent size jar or can for clean turpentine mixing
Paper towels
Paint scraper (for cleaning palette)
Supports:
Cotton or linen canvas, gessoed paper, cardboard and/or masonite. Recommend sizes: 6x8, 8x10, 11x14, 16x20, 20x24 or larger.
Pencil, charcoal or conte
Sketch or note book.
Easel