This training invites you to take the time to explore color in order to develop your sensitivity, broaden your palette and give meaning to your color choices beyond trends.
The perception of color is a rich and complex subject, influenced by the geographical and cultural environment and by your own personal history. Being intrinsically linked to matter and light, we will analyze the surrounding materials in the light of Burgundy.
After studying contextual colors, participants will be invited to design a color range and apply these colors in acrylic paint on an object.
At the end of the training, the trainee will be able to:
Explore and develop their color acuity and creativity
Use the method of sampling different local colored materials
Match a colored sample with acrylic paint
Build a color harmony using color charts
Apply acrylic paint to different materials, choosing the finish according to the final function
Each participant will bring an object of their choice (metal, wood, earthenware, etc.) that will be used during the workshop.
This training will take place in three parts: in the classroom, on the campus grounds and in the workshop.
A first time will be devoted to "table work" where the different symbolism of colors according to cultures will be addressed. Then the questioning of our personal relationship to colors to deepen and express our sensitivity will be addressed.
Observation and methodical recording of the surrounding colored materials.
Design of a color harmony intended for the tinting of one or more volumes.
Second time devoted to practice:
Application of acrylic color on different volumes of ceramic, wood, metals, etc.
Analysis of different supports/materials for the appropriate preparation
Application of acrylic paint on volumes and learning the use of painter's tools
Cleaning and storage of tools by learning virtuous practices
In the classroom
Questionnaire to establish your "color portrait"
Notes in notebook for color theory
Notes in notebook for historical approach to artistic and decorative painting techniques (short summary to understand the components of painting today)
Course notes
Outdoors
Discovery of the campus & its close environment for the sampling of colored materials.
In the workshop
Demonstration: practical application of the acrylic painting technique on volumes
Day 1
Morning
Theories and symbolism of colors in the world
Personal relationship to colors, questionnaire and acrylic painting of one's own color palette
Afternoon
Analysis of the colors of the environment
Color matching
Creation of a color chart of the surrounding colors
Presentation and analysis of one's object
Application of the first layer of preparation on one's object
Day 2
Morning
Theoretical exercises of color harmony with the Argile color chart
Identification of the transformation objectives of one's object
Search for color harmony for one's object
Afternoon
Practice of painting gestures
First finishing layer
Day 3
Morning
2nd and last finishing layer
Afternoon
Presentation of transformed objects
Amandine Gallienne
As a color consultant, Amandine Gallienne works on architecture, furniture and textile projects. She has notably created the color ranges for home objects and Métiers d'Art watches at Hermès, as well as for the ready-to-wear collections of Molli and the furniture of Drucker. A lecturer at the American Schools of Art in Fontainebleau, she is also the author of Un monde de couleurs (Thames & Hudson, 2005) and Les 100 mots de la couleur in the collection Que sais-je? (PUF, 2017).
Coralie Guet
Trained at the Beaux-Arts d'Angers, then in workshops specializing in advertising decor (Hermès, Well) and scenography (Opéra de Paris), Coralie Guet wanted to deepen the techniques of painted decor to enhance heritage at the Van der Kelen-Logelain Decorative Painting Institute in Brussels. Founder of the painted decoration workshop Atelier Bleu de Prusse, she has worked for individuals (notably in private mansions in the 7th arrondissement) as well as in events (Honda, Jacquart champagne, etc.). Passionate about teaching, she passes on her know-how by occasionally intervening in schools of applied arts.
Price(s) including the cost of training, accommodation and full board, materials and personal protective equipment.