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Mark Eanes presents Color: A Deep Dive
Join us at The Branch Museum for an immersive 3-hour workshop on Color Theory. Participants will learn about hues, values, saturation and more through an educational paint workshop with Mark. Color: A Deep Dive, is the second workshop within the 2026 Maker's Studio series.
Mark Eanes is a painter, printmaker, photographer, curator, and educator
who currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to living in
Virginia, Mark lived in the Bay Area of California since 1970. He holds a
Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of California at Santa
Barbara.
Eanes is Professor Emeritus from the California College of the Arts in San
Francisco, where he taught drawing and painting courses for over thirty
three years. Mark also taught at other art institutes in California including
San Francisco State University, the Academy of Art University, Dominican
College in San Rafael, College of San Mateo, and other community
colleges.
Mr. Eanes taught figure drawing at the California State Summer School for
the Arts ( a pre-college arts program at CalArts in Los Angeles) for twelve
years, and was the Chair of the Visual Arts Department for three years.
Mark has also conducted numerous private drawing and painting
workshops throughout California and Italy, and has recently created online
courses (The Language of Color, Design and Drawing) through the Mark
Eanes Academy website.
Eanes has exhibited his artwork throughout California as well as nationally
and internationally. His past solo and selected exhibitions include the Triton
Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA., the Parsons School of Design in Paris,
the Applied Arts Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, the Cumberland Gallery in
Nashville, Tennessee, the Documenta Galeria de Arte in San Paulo, Brazil,
Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, CA, Pence Gallery in Davis, CA, Hanford
Center for the Arts, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and the San Francisco
Center for the Book, among many other venues.
