SARAH SEDWICK
COLOR ,FORM, AND FEELING

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Course Opens May 13th!

Ready to explore how color, edges, and brushwork can bring objects to life in three-dimensional form?

Join Sarah Sedwick in Color, Form, and Feeling and discover how to create the satisfying illusion of three-dimensionality in your paintings. This focused and engaging class explores color theory through complementary palettes, helping you mix beautiful neutrals and achieve a more sophisticated use of color. Along the way, you’ll learn about still life setup, lighting, and how to simplify what you see to create strong, convincing form.

As the course unfolds, you’ll combine these ideas through Sarah’s approachable alla prima (wet-on-wet) process, working with loose, expressive brushwork across any painting medium. As a bonus, you’ll explore one of her favorite exercises—using big brushes—to help you maintain freshness, confidence, and energy in your work.

A gentle shift in how you see—and everything in your work begins to change.

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In this course you will learn:

  • Identify key elements of color and form
  • Describe how color affects mood and harmony.
  • Apply color mixing for expressive palettes.
  • Use simplification to improve clarity.
  • Experiment with intuitive color and form.
  • Develop cohesive, expressive paintings.
  • Create artwork with clear mood and atmosphere.

This course includes:

  • 12 Lessons/6+ hours of pre-recorded content
  • Lifetime access – see terms below
  • Downloadable AND Streamable
  • Private Facebook group

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$159 – Early Bird $129

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Course Description

To begin this course, you’ll explore complementary color pairs by mixing a chromatic scale and creating a simple color chart. You’ll set up a still life with thoughtful lighting, sketch your composition, and begin with a loose tonal underpainting to establish strong values. From there, you’ll simplify what you see, focusing on color relationships, light and dark, and expressive brushwork to create a harmonious, lively painting.

Next, we move beyond complementary colors and explore a split-primary palette while focusing on the essential “do’s” of form. You’ll learn the five key elements that create the illusion of three-dimensionality on a flat surface, working with a single object to keep things clear and focused. Along with focusing on dos and don’ts, we will also learn the benefits of painting with a BIG brush! This lesson is sure to help you loosen up!

Lastly, you’ll set up a new still life and explore analogous colors to create a sense of harmony. Beginning with a warm underpainting, you’ll establish strong values and a clear direction, working from simple shapes to a more developed foundation. From there, you’ll premix your colors to support both light and dark relationships, allowing you to paint with greater freedom and confidence. As you apply color, you’ll bring everything together into a cohesive, expressive final piece.

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Meet Sarah Sedwick – Artist/Instructor

A prolific painter of still life and portraits, Sarah has been teaching workshops on alla prima painting around the country since 2013, and also offers an online art mentorship program. She is the author of the book Dynamic Still Life for Artists, published in 2022.

Based in Eugene, Oregon since 2007, Sarah was born in Cleveland, Ohio.  In 2001, she earned a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art. Her oil paintings explore the simple beauty of everyday objects, often inspired by luscious color and texture combinations. All are painted from life.

Sarah’s teaching philosophy is simple: the more you paint, the more you improve – so find ways to make painting as accessible and enjoyable as possible! Let go of perfectionism, and watch the results unfold.

Course Supplies

You’ll need:

Substrates

  • A pad of canvas paper, or Arches oil paper is always good to have around, and would work well for studies.
  • Two canvases, any size you’d like to create a finished painting on. One square, one rectangle (8×10, 9×12 or larger).
  • I will be working on Raymar SC23 smooth cotton canvas panels. Use the code SEDWICK15 at raymarart.com for 15% off your entire first order, if you’d like to try this great surface too!
  • Sketchbook, paper, or drawing pad.

Paints

  • I use M. Graham
  • Titanium White
  • Alizarin Crimson
  • Cadmium Red Light
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Viridian
  • Cadmium Yellow (medium)
  • Hansa Yellow
  • Yellow Ochre
  • Ivory Black

Paintbrushes and Palette Knives

  • I use Princeton Aspen synthetics, but I encourage you to use what you’re comfortable with.  A good starter kit is a #2 round and a #6 flat and a #4 or #6 filbert.
  • About 2 inches long, and flexible. You want to be able to scoop up a pile of paint with it. I use the RGM softgrip no. 45 (blue handle).

Other

  • Pencil and black Sharpie marker
  • Palette  – a 12×16 (or larger) disposable paper palette pad – or two! I like the White Pad from New Wave.
  • Gamsol
  • Medium: Gamblin Solvent-Free Gel (or substitute with linseed oil, walnut oil, Galkyd, Liquin, or similar)
  • Rags or paper towels (I like disposable blue shop towels, available at hardware stores)
  • Viewfinder. I use the ViewCatcher by The Color Wheel
  • Easel (I recommend standing up to paint) and side table for your palette. I am using the LederEasel. (Link and video demo in the Resources section below). 
  • GOOD TO HAVE: Plastic clamps 3-5” in size. Masking tape.

Resources

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$159 – Early Bird $129

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Terms and conditions:

By enrolling in this course, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

  • This course is designed to provide guidance, exercises, and inspiration to help you grow in your artistic practice. While many students experience personal breakthroughs, increased confidence, and artistic growth, results will vary for each individual.
  • Participation in this course does not guarantee professional success, art sales, gallery representation, or financial gain.
  • All course content is for educational and personal development purposes only.
  • Access to course materials is granted for personal use only. Sharing, distributing, or reselling course content is not permitted.
  • Lifetime Access: When you purchase a class, you will have access to download the course videos and keep them for your personal use for life. While we strive to keep courses available on the site long term, lifetime access does not guarantee that videos will remain streamable on the website indefinitely. From time to time, we may update, modify, or retire older courses to maintain the quality and functionality of the site. If a course is ever scheduled to be removed, we will notify students in advance and provide plenty of time to download the videos.
  • Refund Policy: Due to the immediate availability of the course, and access to downloadable materials, we do not offer refunds.
  • By registering, you confirm that you have read and agree to these terms.