WORKSHOP: The Changing Palette
INFORMATION Joe Palmerio, Instructor palmerioart.com Date: Oct 27-28, 2019 Time: 9:30am-4pm Members Cost: $205 Non-members cost: $235 You may register with a 50% deposit to hold your place and pay the balance on the first day of the workshop. A minimum number of students need to be registered 3 weeks prior to the workshop in order for it to take place. Please note that we cannot refund deposit/fees during the last 3 weeks prior to the workshop. Click here to download registration form Materials List Oils or Acrylics Colors: Ultramarine Blue Transparent Oxide Red (Burnt Sienna is a good substitute) Thalo Rose or Alizarin Crimson, Yellow Ochre Hansa Yellow or Cad. Yellow Light Cad. Red Light Viridian Green Titanium White Brushes: Flats, sizes 2-10, or whatever the students have Canvas |
We will explore multiple palettes, starting with the 2-color palette of a warm and cool color. Ultramarine Blue and Transparent Oxide Red (Burnt Sienna is a good substitute).
We will then move onto complementary and split complementary palettes and prismatic colors. Colors we are using are: Transparent Oxide Red, Thalo Rose, or Alizarin Crimson, Yellow Ochre, Hansa Yellow or Cad. Yellow Light, Cad. Red Light, Viridian Green, Ultramarine Blue and Titanium White.
Regarding brushes, Joe only uses flats, sizes 2-10, but the student can use whatever they are comfortable with.
Artists may use their choice of medium (oil or acrylics) and canvas to paint with.
Instructor will do quick demos before each exercise. We will work from still lifes, however we might step outside for additional fun.
We will then move onto complementary and split complementary palettes and prismatic colors. Colors we are using are: Transparent Oxide Red, Thalo Rose, or Alizarin Crimson, Yellow Ochre, Hansa Yellow or Cad. Yellow Light, Cad. Red Light, Viridian Green, Ultramarine Blue and Titanium White.
Regarding brushes, Joe only uses flats, sizes 2-10, but the student can use whatever they are comfortable with.
Artists may use their choice of medium (oil or acrylics) and canvas to paint with.
Instructor will do quick demos before each exercise. We will work from still lifes, however we might step outside for additional fun.
Meet your instructor

Joe Palmerio
Joe was born Aug. 12, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Palmerio has been a resident of Sarasota for the past twenty five years. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa. and the Barnes Foundation, Lower Merion, Pa. Studied Sculpture at the Frudakis Academy, and metal sculpture at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. A roofer by trade, he also worked as a recreation leader for the City of Philadelphia, and he was the Director of Recreation for the Ute Mountain Ute Indian tribe in Colorado. He has a private pilots license and also maintains a Master Captains boating license, having captained boats for 12 years. He stared in the short film about an artist, A Lot in Common, which was in the Sarasota Film Festival, 2011. He taught painting in community arts centers in Philadelphia, and Colorado, and spent seven years teaching physically challenged adults, in Philadelphia.
He is in numerous private collections, throughout the country, The Coville Collection in Sarasota, the Grant Collection in Reston Va., the Havard Collection in Philadelphia.
Commissions include six large landscapes for the Acme Market Corporation in Great Valley Pa., 10 X 30 foot wall mural for the City of Philadelphia, Murphy Recreation Center, and two 12 x 40 foot murals for Motivation Inc. in the Orlando Airport, of the Atocha treasure ship and a 10 x 40 foot mural for Duval House B & B in Key West.
He was the Everglades Artist in Residence in 2003, and interviewed on National Public Radio, Arts Edition, with Amy Tardiff. The Sarasota Herald Tribune wrote a comprehensive article on him in the Sunday edition of September 28, 2003. He was on the Fine Arts Society Tour in Sarasota, in 2006, and again in 2009, and 2013, and was interviewed by Linda Carson of Channel 7 news. He was voted in the top 100 Paint America show in the Coutts Museum in Kansas in 2010. Mr. Palmerio was the artist in residence for the Great Sand Dunes National Park, in Sept. of 2011. He is the featured artist in the May 2011 issue of Scene Magazine of Sarasota. He was invited in 2012 to the Bennington Vt. Plein Air, paint out. Canaveral Paint outs of 2012-13 and The Winter Park Fl. Paint out. Annapolis Md, Paint Out, and won the people's choice award in the quick draw competition in 2014. In June of 2013 the peoples choice award in the Frederick Md. quick draw competition. First place in Tarpon Springs Quick Draw competition Nov. 2014,and 2017 and won the quick draw competitions in the Sarasota paint out 2015, and 2016. Joe has exhibited nationally in the Oil Painters of America show, and the National Oil and Acrylic Painter Best in America show in Bolivar Mo.
His painting donations have helped fundraisers throughout the country. His plein air paintings emphasize a soft brushwork that captures the fleeting moments of nature. His Abstractions originate from the natural environment, which bursts forth into a dynamic flow of painterly rhythms.
Joe's painting demos and workshops and critique nights are well attended throughout the country.
Joe was born Aug. 12, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Palmerio has been a resident of Sarasota for the past twenty five years. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa. and the Barnes Foundation, Lower Merion, Pa. Studied Sculpture at the Frudakis Academy, and metal sculpture at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. A roofer by trade, he also worked as a recreation leader for the City of Philadelphia, and he was the Director of Recreation for the Ute Mountain Ute Indian tribe in Colorado. He has a private pilots license and also maintains a Master Captains boating license, having captained boats for 12 years. He stared in the short film about an artist, A Lot in Common, which was in the Sarasota Film Festival, 2011. He taught painting in community arts centers in Philadelphia, and Colorado, and spent seven years teaching physically challenged adults, in Philadelphia.
He is in numerous private collections, throughout the country, The Coville Collection in Sarasota, the Grant Collection in Reston Va., the Havard Collection in Philadelphia.
Commissions include six large landscapes for the Acme Market Corporation in Great Valley Pa., 10 X 30 foot wall mural for the City of Philadelphia, Murphy Recreation Center, and two 12 x 40 foot murals for Motivation Inc. in the Orlando Airport, of the Atocha treasure ship and a 10 x 40 foot mural for Duval House B & B in Key West.
He was the Everglades Artist in Residence in 2003, and interviewed on National Public Radio, Arts Edition, with Amy Tardiff. The Sarasota Herald Tribune wrote a comprehensive article on him in the Sunday edition of September 28, 2003. He was on the Fine Arts Society Tour in Sarasota, in 2006, and again in 2009, and 2013, and was interviewed by Linda Carson of Channel 7 news. He was voted in the top 100 Paint America show in the Coutts Museum in Kansas in 2010. Mr. Palmerio was the artist in residence for the Great Sand Dunes National Park, in Sept. of 2011. He is the featured artist in the May 2011 issue of Scene Magazine of Sarasota. He was invited in 2012 to the Bennington Vt. Plein Air, paint out. Canaveral Paint outs of 2012-13 and The Winter Park Fl. Paint out. Annapolis Md, Paint Out, and won the people's choice award in the quick draw competition in 2014. In June of 2013 the peoples choice award in the Frederick Md. quick draw competition. First place in Tarpon Springs Quick Draw competition Nov. 2014,and 2017 and won the quick draw competitions in the Sarasota paint out 2015, and 2016. Joe has exhibited nationally in the Oil Painters of America show, and the National Oil and Acrylic Painter Best in America show in Bolivar Mo.
His painting donations have helped fundraisers throughout the country. His plein air paintings emphasize a soft brushwork that captures the fleeting moments of nature. His Abstractions originate from the natural environment, which bursts forth into a dynamic flow of painterly rhythms.
Joe's painting demos and workshops and critique nights are well attended throughout the country.