Vickie Sawyer supports Mooresville Arts

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Article In Channel Markers magazine about MAG's Photo Show in August.  

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MAG is always looking for ways to promote our artists.  This opportunity will recognize a 3 artists each quarter of 2019.  The Senator will proudly hang art our artists' work in her office in Raleigh.  What a great opportunity!    

What do all these paintings have in common? They were all painted with only four colors - white, yellow ochre, Cadmium Red and Ivory black -----"The Zorn Palette". Anders Zorn was a famous Swedish painter who lived 1860-1920.

When looking over his body of work you'll note that this limited palette is not the only one he used. But there are quite a few figure paintings where it is quite obvious that the Zorn palette is exactly what he used. In fact, in one particular painting, "Self Portrait with a Model", you have a clear view of his palette with those four colors.

Since I'm an avid portrait painter, I decided to experiment with this palette. Painting portraits is challenging --- but so rewarding! Simplifying my palette to something I know works gives me the freedom to focus on other aspects of portraiture, so I decided to 

incorporate it into my workshops. I also ask my workshop participants to do "homework" before they come, preparing color charts using these four colors. That way they walk in the door with some sense of the range of flesh tones those four colors can produce. Not only does it produce beautiful flesh tones, but it virtually guarantees color harmony to your portrait.

Hope you'll come paint with us!!! – Robin Wellner. Check out Robin’s website to see more of her beautiful work. www.robinwellner.com/

Robin will be giving a demo at the next Mooresville Arts quarterly program Sunday, April 14. The program begins at 2 PM with a short update on Mooresville Arts. Be sure to arrive on time for this great quarterly program. One lucky

member of the audience will be selected to be Robin’s model for her demonstration and will be taking the demo painting home!

If you are excited and inspired by Robin's work, you are in luck! She will be teaching a 3-day 

workshop, Alla Prima Portraits Using the Zorn Palette, at Mooresville Arts on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, May 18, 19, 20. Check out the April online catalog at www.mooresvillearts.org/workshops for more information.