Description

SAMANTHA HARING
COLOR & LIGHT
3 Day Workshop
April 17 – 19, 2026
10:00 – 5:00pm

Tuition $600

Color is deeply personal. The way we see and experience color is unique from one person to the next, which makes it both endlessly fascinating and yet maddening to pin down. Understanding color begins with understanding light: its temperature, its tone, its emotional resonance.

In this workshop, we will explore the relationship between color and light in the still life. By observing artificially colored light on neutral objects, we will play with the differences between what we expect to see and what we actually perceive. We will start with limited palette color studies and work towards a final, full color painting based on our visual research. Our time together will be split between lectures, demos, quick sketches, and at least one longer resolved painting.

Projected Schedule:
Friday (Day 1)
-Introductions

– Precedents: compositional analysis, color and space

– Exercise: drawing thumbnails for composition, space, and shape

– Monochromatic temperature studies using a warm and cool primary color

Saturday (Day 2)
– Precedents: color temperature and relativity

– Exercise: color charts, Albers squares, seeing color in context

– Four color complementary palette studies

Sunday (Day 3)
– Precedents: color harmony with a full palette

– Work day on final full color painting

– Discussion and critique

Instructor Bio:
Samantha Haring is an artist and educator from Des Plaines, Illinois. Haring earned her MFA from Northern Illinois University and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They spent a summer in Italy at the International School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture; it was there that they fully developed their commitment to light, color, and observational painting. Haring was one of the 2015-16 Artists-in-Residence at Manifest Gallery. She teaches drawing and design courses in the School of Design at the University of Cincinnati, and she has been a Resident Instructor at Manifest Drawing Center since 2016. Haring’s work is published in issues #119 and #123 of New American Paintings, as well as in several recent Manifest INDA and INPA publications. They have work available with Gallery 19 in Chicago, Southside Gallery in Oxford, MS, and Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York. Her studio practice is currently based in Cincinnati, where she spends an inordinate amount of time staring at the color of dust.

www.samharing.com

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