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Live Panel: Color In Action!
Thursday, August 7th
5-6pm MDT
7-8pm EDT
12am-1am BST (Friday)
9am-10am AEST (Friday)
Mentors: Rose Irelan & Greg Newbold
$19.00
Free For Mastrius Members.
Color in Action!
Studio-Tested TIPS for Color Mastery
Theories are one thing… but knowing how to effectively use color to truly shape your work is another.
In this live event, master artists Rose Irelan and Greg Newbold will share how they use color theory practically in their studio practice to reflect a unique artistic voice, control and clarify the narrative, and evoke mood.
You'll get clear, actionable tips to understand and use color to support and elevate your work beyond the basics. Learn practical strategies you can put to use right away.
In this interactive discussion, you’ll learn:
- How to build a personal color palette
- Techniques for controlling contrast, harmony, and emotion in color
- Tips for resolving common color mistakes
- How to use color to enhance storytelling in your work
Whether you're looking to strengthen your color instincts or refine how you make visual color choices, this panel offers guidance grounded in experience and practical studio application.
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Meet Rose Irelan
Oil | Gouache| Figure & Foundation Drawing | Charcoal
Rose Irelan is an award-winning artist who loves to portray the wonder of life in her work, currently residing in the beauty of San Diego’s coast, desert and mountains. Her Contemporary Impressionist Style captures nature’s rich and rugged displays of light with her in-depth understanding of color expressed through her energetic brushwork. “I want my paintings to convey the emotion that you experience from the terrain, the sea, and the wind.”
Years of painting quick hands-on studies from life with still lives and figures and working many years outdoors have given Rose much information and understanding of how color is affected by light and have been instrumental to her sensitive and vibrant use of color and mastery of light that has become a signature of her work. She constantly is striving to learn more about light and color and how to capture luminosity in her work.
Rose paints and travels throughout California, the Southwest, the remote Sonoran Baja Mexico desert, and abroad to discover new terrains and cultures that inspire her. Her work is derived from all types of light and of all parts of the day, including her nocturne paintings were she awakens long before the sun rises to capture the moon set and early sunrise at her Baja residence.
“Every outdoor location and experience feeds my passion to paint and connect more deeply with nature. I feel the best way to paint nature is from direct observation that is truthful; not only in the way it looks but the way it feels. I am a student of nature and light”.
Meet Greg Newbold
Acrylic | Oil | Digital | Drawing | Graphite | Mixed Media
Greg Newbold began drawing and painting the world around him at the age of three and never looked back. His artistic training includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Brigham Young University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hartford, as well as numerous workshops and seminars from accomplished artists such as Michael Workman, Josh Clare, David Dibble, and Bill Perkins.
Now focusing primarily on gallery work, Greg draws inspiration from the grand desert vistas of the western United States as well as the more intimate scenes surrounding the area in which he was raised. His subjects range from monumental sandstone canyons and mesas to the delicate blooms of hollyhocks. He has a particular soft spot for agricultural subjects such as hay bales, farm animals, machinery, and the people who work the land.
Greg is endlessly enchanted by the desert and mountain landscapes of the American West and finds them a rich source of inspiration. “I can go just about anywhere and find something that moves me. The well of painting subjects will never run dry,” he says. Greg’s work is often stylized in shape and color, a natural extension of some of his favorite influences such as Maynard Dixon, Grant Wood, The Canadian Group of Seven, N.C. Wyeth, and others. In the end, Greg hopes his work makes viewers feel connected to the land and enjoy a sense of place that surrounds him in the West’s wide-open spaces.