Acrylic Painting - Colors Mastery Course

When it comes to the color names, it is very common to get confused by so many names for colors. Since there are so many names, it becomes essential to first create a standard set of color names and language. Over the years, I have become very comfortable it using a very simple names for all the types of colors that we see in nature.

In this video, I will share my simple guide to color nomenclature. You will start identifying colors by not their labels, but what you actually see. I will also share some striking discrepancies when it comes to different names for same colors or same names being used for different colors and how our simple nomenclature can help us completely avoid these confusions for us.

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There are various sets of 'primary colors' that we would have heard about. These sets are often referred to as color systems. In this video I explore more about these 3 most popular color systems and which ones are relevant to us in our painting world.

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One of the main objective of this course is for us to be able to decipher any color that we see and re-create it accurately by mixing the paints that we have. I call that as an artist's superpower.

In this video I share insights into the various types of paints available most commonly across various paint manufacturers. This is the time to download the 1st document with exercises to equip us through the experiments in the next few videos.

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In this exercise, we will create all our 12 colors of the color wheel by mixing the 3 conventional primary colors (Yellow, Red & Blue).

Kindly download and use the worksheets available in the download section if not done so yet. (The same file was available for download in the previous video as well).

I really encourage you to attempt these exercises as they will serve as important reference sheets for us in the future.

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Now, let us complete our 12 hues color wheel by filling in colors directly from the tubes/bottles. If you have a starter pack of 5-6 colors only, then this exercise is optional for you. If you do have paints beyond the basic primary colors, I highly recommend that you complete this exercise for all the pure colors that you have in your kit. This completed sheet will later serve you as a good reference sheet whenever you have to quickly match a color without needing to open the tube/bottle.

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In this exercise, let us bring all our yellows and reds that we have in order to create a wide variety of oranges. This can serve as a master reference sheet for oranges in future.

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In this exercise, let us bring all our yellows and blues that we have in order to create a wide variety of greens. This can serve as a master reference sheet for greens in future.

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In this exercise, let us bring all our reds and blues that we have in order to create a wide variety of purples/violets. This can serve as a master reference sheet for purples & violets in future.

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In this video, let us split the primary colors into two and then create all the secondary and tertiary colors by mixing the best respective pairs of primary colors.

Once that is done, we can optimize our color palette by shifting back some of the split primaries to single primaries. This will most certainly be our chosen custom color palette.

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Welcome to this next section of this course. Till now we have understood the various names and types of colors and paints. We have learnt how to create all the colors of the color wheel using the traditional approach of mixing 3 primary colors, split primary colors and our custom designed color palette.

Now, in this section, it is time to up our game and learn about the variations that we observe in a single color based on light. So, keep your material handy and complete these next set of interesting experiments with me.

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In this video I explain one of the most important and generally difficult to understand color concepts through easy demonstrations. The worksheet which you can download from the download section has been very carefully designed so that we all can learn these concepts very quickly and easily by attempting the worksheet.

I look forward to seeing your completed worksheets/cubes.

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In this video, let us paint a realistic tree together. Most of us have grown up learning to draw and paint a very simple tree. Many of us yearn to paint a realistic tree. In this video, I will show you step-by-step on how we can paint a realistic tree by implementing all the learning we have gathered so far in this course.

Once we attempt a realistic tree, we can actually get more creative and paint a tree in even more bold and and imaginative colors. If we get the values, intensity and temperature of color right, the resultant tree would still look realistic. That's the magic of these concepts :-)

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Its now time to exercise our superpower of being able to create any color that we see using the paints from our kit. So, please download the sheet from the download section now (in not done already in the previous videos) and attempt this challenge with me.

Good luck!

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There are some interesting color patterns and arrangements that exist all around us. These color secrets were revealed to us by some great men and women who minutely observed the nature and discovered all that we know about colors today.

So in this section, let us go through a similar experience of minutely observing the nature as it exists all around us to reveal these secrets.

Its time to start developing an eye of an artist. Join me in this exciting journey!

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In this video, I continue on my journey of cataloguing various interesting scenes in and around the nature. Join me in this exploration as I decipher the secret recipe of nature's color magic.

Enjoy!

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In this third part of observing the nature, I look at sunsets more closely and discover the secret behind their beauty. A related phenomena is silhouettes. Many artists love clicking silhouettes and so do I.

As I conclude this journey, I really hope you enjoy learning through this journey. Hope you get the required insights in order to build a deeper vision of that of an artist. We are now all set to start using these ideas and knowledge on to our canvas to make some lovely paintings.

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Drawing my inspiration from the desert pics in the previous section, I begin with the first step-by-step painting demonstration of a desert landscape. In this video I will share one very important step before even painting on the canvas, and that is creating a rough sketch often termed as 'Notan' sketch. Watch me as I compose this desert landscape from the various ideas I collected from the previous video.

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In this video we start the painting by painting the background sky and the foreground land area. We paint a faint moon. We set the stage ready for painting the desert sand dunes.

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We continue with the painting and in this video we paint the sand dunes.

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In this final part, we paint the trees using cool shadow areas and warm light facing areas. This is the part where the painting comes to life.

Ta-da...our first complete demonstration done!

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In this first part of this demonstration, I will paint the background of this beautiful scene. Paint along with me. This can be a very worthwhile painting to attempt. It is bound to boost your confidence in your artistic skills and guess what? This painting is not going to take as long as it might appear.

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This part two is quite exciting as we paint the subject of the painting - the colorful bird. Using simple techniques, I will show you step-by-step on how to paint this bird with hairy texture on its body. I hope you are painting with me. This might appear to take a lot of time, but in reality it takes just 35-40 mins to complete the bird.

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Now we come to the final part of this painting. We will paint the branch, leaves, flowers and stems to complete this painting. Yay!!

I sincerely hope that you paint this one with me as I truly believe that this painting will help us boost our confidence and capability in painting.

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In this tutorial I will show you step-by-step in composing a simple sunrise landscape painting. This is a very exciting painting because it has all the colors from the color wheel in it. This painting is an improvisation of the conventional simple landscape drawing which most of us used to make during our early childhood times.

In this painting, you will learn how to compose a simple landscape painting using some simple tips and techniques. I will also demonstrate how to smoothly blend various colors in the sky.

I encourage you to really try this painting as it will surely help you make an important shift in your artistic skills.

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In this second part of the demonstration, we continue with the painting and add abstract and soft clouds in the sky. We also paint the base coat of the mountains and start building their texture.

I advise you to go step-by-step with this painting. If needed, feel free to take a short break in between the painting process.

Hope you are enjoying this journey so far!

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In this section, we add highlights on the mountains, river and paint the grasslands on the sides of the river. Keep it going!

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In this last section, we will complete this painting by adding the trees, highlights and any final touches to the painting. This is where all the individual elements come together to make the BIG picture.

With this, we are now off to the next painting :-)

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This is an important painting project and a milestone for us. All this while, we have either composed our painting using some ideas, or painted from a reference image or painted pre-set objects and shapes. With all the knowledge that we have gathered through this course, now we will attempt an abstract painting completely riding on the learning from this course. I would be sharing my step-by-step approach in painting one abstract painting in this video and I invite you to use this approach in painting your very own unique abstract art.

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I was about to wind up this course, when this photo happened!

We had gone for a trek with few friends on this little hill top when my dear friend Sai clicked this beautiful silhouette pic of an adorable father-son duo. This scene makes for a very nice analogous color scheme with the family of yellows and oranges.

Come, paint with me this lovely scene as I walk you step-by-step in completing this one.

You may download the reference image which is used in this tutorial from the 'Downloads' section.

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The demonstration continues in this Part 2, where we finish the painting by painting the grass and the human figures. I encourage you to complete this painting. You may replace these human figures with the figures of your choice, if you may!

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Congratulations!! You have come to the end of this course. I have really enjoyed this journey with you. Hope you also had a good learning journey through this course. You can always refer to this course and re-watch the tutorials whenever you like and howsoever times you would like as you have lifetime access to this course.

Till we meet again. Bye bye!

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