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Live Panel: Making Sense of the Color Wheel
Thursday, February 5th
5–6pm MST
7–8pm EST
12am–1am GMT (Friday)
11am–12pm AEDT (Friday)
Mentors: Regina Quinn and Kenneth Marunowski
$19.00
Free For Mastrius Members.
Color Theory: Understanding the Color Wheel
Choosing color doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. With a little understanding and the right framework, color can become one of your most trusted creative tools.
Join Mastrius Mentors Regina Quinn and Kenneth Marunowski for a live panel that demystifies the color wheel and shows how to use it with intention in your work. If you've ever struggled with choosing the right colors, making your paintings feel balanced, or creating the mood you want, this conversation is for you.
Together, Regina and Kenneth will explore how colors interact and how a solid foundation in color theory can support stronger, more confident decision-making in your art.
You’ll learn:
- What the color wheel is and how it can guide your color choices
- The role of primary, secondary, and tertiary colors – and how to mix them
- Easy ways to create harmony or contrast in your art
- How warm and cool colors affect feeling and focus
This is your chance to hear directly from two practicing artists who have spent years developing their relationship with color. You’ll leave with practical tools and fresh insight to support your work in the studio.
Bring your questions and curiosity!
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Meet Kenneth Marunowski
Acrylic | Charcoal | Drawing | Ink | Mixed Media | Oil
Risk-taking, problem-solving, physical engagement, spontaneity: these are among the many elements that go into every painting I create, elements that comprise what I call a “spirit of play.” This spirit of play does not occur, however, without a guiding idea, for I believe, like Baudelaire, that there is “no great painting without great ideas.”
Kenneth Marunowski is an artist and educator who lives and works in his hometown of Valley View, Ohio, just south of Cleveland. Ken grew up enjoying the cultural amenities of a big city and the natural splendor of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, both right at his doorstep.
Marunowski’s passion for culture and nature took him to Kent State University where he received bachelor degrees in French and Painting (landscape focus), sparking a lifelong investigation of language and image. A pivotal junior year abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France deepened the young painter’s appreciation for culture, language and art. Years later, a Master of Arts in English as a Second Language provided Marunowski an opportunity to teach in Dresden, Germany before returning to Kent State to pursue a Ph.D. in Literacy, Rhetoric and Social Practice.
Following his doctoral work, Ken taught professional writing to arts and letters and social science students at the University of Minnesota Duluth for several years before dedicating himself completely to his painting practice. A full-time artist since 2016, Marunowski shares his rigorous pursuit of abstract and representational painting not only through the works he creates but also through the painting and drawing classes and workshops he teaches, the talks he gives, and the articles he writes on art-related topics.
Meet Regina Quinn
Encaustic | Ink | Oil
Regina B. Quinn is an encaustic artist based in the Northern Catskill Mountains of New York, after decades in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Her creative career has spanned painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking, and theatrical set design, though her primary focus is now encaustic mixed media.
“I was struck by the luminosity and subtlety of Doug and Mike Starn’s encaustics,” she writes, “and immediately sensed that this was my medium—one that could give voice to my aesthetic, sensibility, and quiet personality. I haven’t looked back.”
Regina is President of International Encaustic Artists and Vice-Chair of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM) Board of Directors. She teaches encaustics in Ireland and at the Woodstock School of Art, and has received numerous honors, including the Faber Birren National Color Award, the Cooperstown Art Association Grand Prize, and the WAAM Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award.
Represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY, her work is held in the permanent collections of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center (Brooklyn) and the Museum of Encaustic Art (Santa Fe). She exhibits regularly in juried and invitational shows, including the Salmagundi Club (NYC), WAAM, and Ann Marie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, a Smithsonian affiliate. Recent solo exhibitions include Radiant Edges (Cooperstown Art Association), An Unexpected Light (Locust Grove Estate, Poughkeepsie), and Expressions in Every Form (Bank Art Gallery, Newburgh).