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COLOR STRATEGIES with Susan Webb Tregay NWS Study the color plans that have created have created masterpieces throughout the ages. By pushing your painting toward one of these strategies, you will learn to organize your palette, enhance your painting's content and produce mature, unified and polished paintings. Color is the joy of watercolor. Learn how to avoid mud." This two-day course may be combined with the two-day Value Strategy course for a comprehensive study of "Unify It," Step 4 from my book Master Disaster: 5 Ways to Rescue Desperate Watercolors [North Light Publications, 2007].

Daily Lesson and Work   Day 1–morning What are color strategies? What content does each evoke? Find and cut out examples of each in an art magazine. Paint quick samples of each strategy. Start a "flip book" with a spiral bound 4 x 6 note book made with recipe cards or add these to your existing "flip book."	Demos, Slides, Discussions and Handouts   Handout of 8 strategies. (Suitable for pasting in "flip books' from value strategy course.) SLIDES (or DVD) and ACTUAL PAINTINGS: examples of my work, examples of color strategies. DISCUSSION: what is content? (Handout) or Working in a Series. (Show series sketchbook.)
Day 1–afternoon   Take an unfinished painting and pushing it toward one of the color strategies. Make a color test sheet to help avoid "mud."	DEMO: removing unwanted colors through cutting stencils. DEMO: pushing a painting toward one of the color strategies. DEMO: Avoiding "mud" HOMEWORK: read Louise Cadillac article on content. (handout)
Day 2–morning Plan and start a new painting based on a color strategy that fits the paintings content and mood.	DISCUSSION: Louise Cadillac article DEMO: work on new painting while others work. SLIDES: Art of the New Millennium (handout)
Day 2–afternoon Finish the painting Evaluate it.	DISCUSSION: brainstorming, content, using stencils to apply content and dreaming up painting titles for extended content. DEMO: cut stencil and apply content. finish new painting while others work. DISCUSSION: critiquing your painting, how I do it, how others do it, critique your neighbor's (handouts)

All of my courses are basic to the arts. They apply to any media, and any non-smelly media is welcome in the classes. Acrylic painters should bring alcohol (91%) and/or Windex to class. With small groups (10 -12 people), it is possible to have one on one time with the instructor in a two-day workshop. In these 15 minute intervals I can review recent work or answer questions. Students have told me that these conferences are an extremely important part of my workshops. Since traveling light is always the best way to go these days, organizations are responsible for supplying the copies of handouts. Master copies can be mailed ahead of time, if necessary. For more information, contact me at susan@tregay.com.