Chris Carter

Focusing on Colour Temperature

March 3, 2026

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A lot has changed since I used this wordpress.com platform. Thank you for your patience as I relearn how to navigate the methods of posting images, videos and text. Rather than subject you to the painful plethora of advertising on my YouTube channel, I will be connecting most of the videos to my Vimeo channel. All of the videos will also be uploaded to YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisCarterArt/videos)

Though I’m cutting way back on my online teaching, I continue to teach a few live workshops, the first one this year is a mini workhop at Main Street gallery in Cambridge, Maryland on March 15, 2026. the workshop follows an artist’s talk I’m giving at the gallery on Second Saturday. I’m the guest artist during March and April.

The next workshop is at Chapel Cottage Studio in Abergavenny, Wales, April 24 – 26th. the studio is amazing with views of the gorgeous valley and enormous sky. Colour temperature in the Landscape. Both wortkshops are focused on observing the nuances of colour temperature and how slight cooling or warming of adjacent pigments can greatly enhance the expressiveness of paintings whether abstract or representational.

By the end of the summer I hope to have completed the Skillshare version of my online Colour Temperature course. My workaround for the fact that Skillshare is limited to relatively short video lessons without text to accompany each lesson will be to present a pdf of all the text (lesson by lesson) that can be referred to while going through the videos. I’m in no rush to complete this task. There are plenty of my classes already available on Skillshare to keep one busy until I complete the colour temperature course. Skillshare with Chris Carter

I’m looking forward to returning to Verrocchio Art Center in Casole d’Elsa for Liz Hough’s art retreat at the end of July. I’ll be making many of my own pigments from foraged materials while I’m there, using them in the work I create, inspired by this charming medieval hill town in the Val d’Elsa region of Tuscany.

Thank you for reading my blog.

Chris Carter

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The organic shapes of the figure are forever changing as a body moves through space catching and reflecting light as it transforms through the shadows of its environment. Even at rest, the figure inspires variations of form and color as it moves slowly with each inhalation of breath. I am driven by my attempt to capture the energy of movement in pencil and paint. Watercolor allows me to explore unknown territory from which I extract the suggestion of one or more figures interacting with the surrounding space. Oil paints challenge my ability to stay focused on a moment of action prolonged over a long period of execution. Pencil and ink are simply a delight, dancing across the paper as swiftly as the figure before me moves to the rhythm of the music that fills the air. Though my work is diverse, ranging from detailed landscapes to totally abstract fields of color and juxtapositions of lines and shapes, I return to the figure to regain my sense of balance and to renew my spirit. Chris Carter

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