4/18/2023 0 Comments They call me mellow yellow song![]() Thankfully, my newly found painting mentor, Jim Cobb, loaned me his copy of Schmid’s book. But they weren’t with me in Oklahoma when I first picked up the brushes again! Neither was the wonderful Johannes Itten book, “The Art of Color” that I desperately wanted as my only birthday gift the year I got it in High School. I still have many of our assignments as well as her self-published book of lecture notes. ![]() Our teacher, Judy Crook, was the only female instructor I had in all five years of tertiary art study, but she was one of the most inspirational and tough. In fact, the Colour Theory course I took at Art Center blew my socks off. Among the many mystifying questions are those regarding the use of colour. It is one thing to want to paint, and quite another to understand how to paint. They were of immense help to me to get a leg up on the painting horse again. Richard Schmid is loved by many painters for his teaching and encouragement, especially in his Alla Prima books. After that, I am not sure what happened to it!īut while Donovan sang about colour, masters like Richard Schmid made colour sing. My little sister thought it was creepy, so it hung on the back of the door of our room until I left for university. Instead, I received a poster like this from him, personally autographed. ![]() To my dismay, my parents felt I was too young, so wasn’t allowed to go for fear there would be drugs in use. In my teens, I was invited by a visiting family friend to hang out with Donovan and his band after a concert in Houston in the late 60s.
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