Tiffanie Mang Professional Series: Color and Light

💡 Join Tiffanie Mang for a 3+ hour deep dive into the behavior of light and its impact on painting. Starting with a simple still life, Tiffanie demonstrates how breaking objects—like a piece of fruit—into flat planes allows you to analyze light sources and understand how they shape form. You’ll explore how different lighting conditions—including direct, overcast, rim, and reflected light—affect both planes and overall shape, while learning how local color shifts under bounce light.

Next, deepen your understanding with an in-depth analysis of a perfect sphere, studying how its form reacts to light and shadow. These foundational exercises build the observational skills necessary to tackle complex lighting in any subject.

Tiffanie then takes the principles beyond still life and into landscape painting, covering light source temperature and its effect on shadows. Learn to see nuance in shadows, including warm hues in what appears as “black,” and understand how light shapes the environment. She also introduces WebbyPaint, demonstrating its tools and applications as she creates two studies: one under overcast light, the other in bright sunlight. These exercises teach how to interpret color, manipulate temperature, and experiment digitally before committing to paint.

The course culminates in a demo where Tiffanie paints the Italian Dolomite Mountains in Heavy Paint, showing how to integrate all of these concepts—light, color, temperature, and form—into a cohesive, expressive landscape.

You’ll learn how to:

🖌️ Analyze objects in terms of planes to understand light and form
🎨 Interpret and apply different types of light: direct, overcast, rim, and reflected
🌟 Understand the effect of light on color temperature and shadow hue
💻 Use WebbyPaint to experiment with color temperature and lighting digitally
📐 Integrate all concepts in a final landscape demo to create cohesive, dynamic work

Perfect for artists seeking a comprehensive understanding of light, color, and form—applicable to both still life and landscape painting. 🕒 Runtime: 3+ hours