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“Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.” — Eugene Delacroix
This course is designed for painters at all levels. The lessons lay a solid foundation for beginners while offering an expansive perspective to mid-level and advanced artists.
I put “practical” in the title because the course is packed with immediately usable tips, exercises, and ideas for you to integrate into your own work. It’s labeled “for painters” because the class exercises are designed to help those who use paint in their artwork. Mixed media collage artists and printmakers are welcome to join. There are copious color take aways for your own practice.
By the end of the course, you will have created a reference book for yourself to use over and over for the rest of your life AND you will truly understand how to use color to get the results you want.
Color theory is the study of how colors work together as well as how they affect our emotions and perceptions. Practical Color for Painters provides you with the essential color knowledge you need minus the overwhelming complexity. Don’t let confusion dim your creative spark—embrace my simple and practical approach to color theory today and become color confident!
You will Learn:
- Introduction to fundamental color concepts.
- Understanding basic color terminology.
- Understanding the color wheel — including how to build a color wheel and how to USE a color wheel.
- How to Mix Colors – including how to look at a color and match it. (And WHY mixing colors matters.)
- How to mix your own neutrals as well as why/when to use neutrals.
- Understanding the impact of desaturation on color harmony and mood in artwork
- How to create sophisticated color variations.
- How to make your colors coordinate into a cohesive palette.
- Exploration of the importance of value in art.
- Understanding the role of value in composition and its visual impact.
- Tinting and shading colors to create a value scale.
- Exercises for seeing and exploring value in your artwork.
- The basics of color harmony and its role in creating visually pleasing compositions.
- Application of color harmony principles to enhance the emotional impact of artwork
- How to identify and use color schemes (complementary, analogous, triadic).
- Understanding color relativity.
- Techniques for glazing and layering colors.
- Exploration of warm and cool colors in glazing and layering processes.
- Understanding opacity and transparency when layering.
- Exploration of the psychology of color and its impact on viewer perception.
- Guidance on developing a personal color palette that reflects individual style
- How to save and catalog custom colors.
- And Much More!!
Throughout the series, students will not only gain technical skills in working with color but also develop a deeper understanding of the expressive and psychological aspects of color in art.
“The point is to know how to use the colors, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.” — Claude Monet
Don’t miss this chance to enhance your painting skills and embrace the joy of color – reserve your spot today!
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