Classes

Discover the secrets of oil painting with Stefan Baumann in these weekly three-hour classes.  Stefan will help you learn basic drawing skills, color principles, composition, and painting techniques.  Individuals select their own subjects to paint and Stefan personally helps every student paint extraordinary finished works of art.

Saratoga, CA Classes Schedules
Monday	6:00-9:00 pm	Painting Every other week
Tuesday	9:00-2:00 pm	Painting 1st & 3rd week of the month

Mt. Shasta CA Classes Schedules
Friday	10:00am - 2:00 pm	Painting Every week

Redding , CA Classes Schedules
Wednesday	9:00 - 12:00 pm
Wednesday	1:00pm - 4:00pm

Medford Classes Schedules
Thursday	9:00 - 12:00 pm
Thursday	1:00pm - 4:00pm

You may register for any class at any time.
For Registration please contact us at 415-606-9074

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“Anyone can paint.  All that it takes is desire.”

Color Master Series 8-Week Course

“Everything You Want to Know About Color.” 

If you are a beginning or advanced artist and you
want to learn to master color, this intense 8-week series presented by Stefan Bauman, PBS artists and host of The Grand View, will answer all the questions you have about the mysteries and secrets of color

This 8-week series teaches all the keys you need to know to create artwork powerfully and consistently with color.  Baumann, who has been a professional artist for over 35 years, will share his knowledge of color, while inspiring you to paint more skillfully within weeks.

For further information or to enroll in the course,
go to my website www.thegrandview.com or call me at 800-511-1337.

What Will I learn in the Color Masters Series?

• Atmospheric prospective with color
• Creating Light and Atmosphere with color
• Using color to add depth in your paintings
• Lean how to see color simply
• How to paint the glowing sun
• How to get you values and colors accurate
• How to use color to paint the finishing touches
•  Arrange color for a strong composition
• Reflective light and its application
• How to see the true colors
• How to mix value and “color families”
• Studio painting to finish on- location work
• Design with color for planes of depth
• Working with a limited palette
• Creating vibrancy with warm and cool color
• Understanding how humans see
• Recreating the way humans see
• Making an area glow with light
• How light infuses objects with color
• How does our brain trick us
• How do we see color
• What is Color Constancy
• What are color symbols
• What is color

By taking this course, you will build a foundation of practical color techniques that will expand your ability to be a confident and successful artist.  One of the most important keys of
mastering painting is using color successfully.  Artists are able to see color differently because they observe the relationships between color, value, shape, and texture.  Discovering how to see colors and values accurately will improve your painting dramatically.  By being able to understand color theory, color mixing, color application, and creating color harmony and light effects, your painting ability will reach new levels of expertise.

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This 8-week program is an intense experience in the observation and exploration of color and the use of color in your art.  This program will improve your painting abilities quickly.  This class offers weekly instruction with assigned requests that students will complete at home during the following week.  Each class will discuss a new topic and critique of the homework assignments from the previous week.  Students learn from each other in lively discussions while focusing on the topic of the week.  Through the presentation, both by example and explanation, students gain practical insights that will make an incredible improvement in their work and painting skills.

Week One:   Color Theory

• History
• Foundation
• Schools
• What we see and don’t see
• Seeing color in shadows
• Complimentary colors, how to use them in your art
• Impressionism and what it is
• What were Impressionists seeing
• Painting in natural light or not to
• Post-Impressionist movement

Week Two:   Seeing Color - Understanding Seeing

• Learn how masters see color different than amateurs
• How we see and what we don’t see
• How our eyes and brain tricks us
• Color constancy in nature and painting
• Painting with color symbols
• What is this thing we all call color

Week Three:  Describing Color - Thinking about color

• Making better color decisions
• Conceptualization
• Analyzing color in nature
• Creating mood with color
• What are the 3 dimensions of color
• Temperature and how to see it
• Check your color
• The best way to see and analyze color
• Discovering your ability to see local color

Week Four:   Value – The most important key for success

• Create accurate values all the time
• The importance of value
• How to see and analyze value
• 9 value scale and how it works in painting
• Seeing color as value
• The secrets of value relationships
• 7 powerful exercises to master value

Week Five:   Mixing Color – Mix color like a master

• Discover which paints you should use
• What is the best way to mix color
• What color wheel is best
• How to accurately match a color all the time
• Learn to darken and lighten colors
• Secrets of seeing color relationships
• 5 powerful exercises in mixing color

Week Six:   Applying Color – Make color sing in your painting

• Using color to express yourself
• Creating mood with color
• Three insights to create vibrancy
• Using halftones and value
• Compressing values to enhance color
• Creating impact in your painting

Week Seven:  Color Harmony- Colors, getting them together

• Unifying light and how to activate it
• Harmonic schemes and how they work
• Secrets and shortcuts to create color harmony
• Capture the viewer by seeing the true color of the light

Week Eight:   Light Effects – Fill your painting with light

• Painting luminosity
• How color reacts around forms
• How to get color to glow
• Painting gradations
• Painting Reflected light

For information, contact The Grand View 1-800-511-1337

• Classes
• Power to Create
• Master Art
• Color Series
• Location Painting
• Online Coaching

Location Painting

New offering!  Three-hour “on-location sessions” are now available by special request.  Contact Stefan if you are interested in having a group painting session at a beautiful outdoor location in Mount Shasta, the Rogue Valley or near-by destinations.  Further information will be posted as new offerings are available. 

• Harness the power location painting
•Learning the fundamentals of composition
•Understanding and mastering color

For a quarter century, Stefan Baumann has devoted his life to providing the critical resources of education and inspiration, as well as specific tools to help people measurably improve the quality of their painting. His ability to develop systems for creating immediate and lasting change has made him a recognized expert in Location Painting

People from all walks of life, (those just beginning the journey to successful art currieries, and those who have already reached the pinnacle of achievement), call on Stefan Baumann to take their art to the next level.

Online Coaching

Even if you are not in town to take classes in person with Stefan, it’s not a problem!
Online coaching is designed to meet the needs of student’s who live anywhere in the world.  He is available by phone and through email at a time that works for you.  You will receive the same professional and competent coaching that you would experience in person without the difficulties of traveling.  Call Stefan for further information about

This is powerful approach to improving your abilities and skills as an artist.