
Learn the materials for the color wheel exercise, including red, yellow, blue, white, black, canvas or paper, mid sized round brushes, a color palette, water, and tissues.
Identify the primary colors—yellow, red, and blue—and explain why they cannot be formed by mixing. Learn how mixing primaries produces secondary colors: orange, green, and violet.
Master tertiary colors by mixing primary and secondary colors, with examples like blue and orange, red and violet, and yellow and green, producing teal, brown, and yellow ochre.
Explore the color wheel by mixing primary colors—yellow, red, and blue—to create orange, green, violet, teal, light green, and dark brown shades.
Mix white with each color to reveal a range of tints and shades, from blue violet to orange, and observe how white lightens and shifts hues.
Explore how adding white to primary, secondary, and tertiary colors reveals a spectrum of shades from lemon yellow to teal, completing the color wheel for acrylic and oil painting.
Learn how to create darker shades by adding black to primary, secondary, and tertiary colors in acrylic and oil painting, exploring shade progression across red, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
Explore the color wheel, distinguishing warm colors from cool colors, and learn to paint with the cool hues from yellow-green to violet and the warm hues from red to yellow.
Explore analogous colors that fall next to each other in the same color palette with similar values, such as red, orange, yellow orange and yellow green, blue green.
Learn about complementary colors—their opposite positions on the color wheel—and practice color pairings like blue and orange, yellow and violet, and red and green for acrylic and oil painting.
Explore monochromatic colors and how to create tints, tones, and shades by adding white, gray, or black to a single hue, with practical color examples.
Explore triadic colors: three colors on the color wheel equally spaced in a triangle. Examples include yellow, blue, and red.
Explore split-complementary color schemes, where a primary color pairs with two adjacent complements, yellow with red-violet and blue-violet. Learn neutral colors and tetradic (rectangular) and square schemes for palettes.
Create your own color wheel to understand color interactions and how white or black shape highlights and shadows. Experiment with primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, tints, and shades.
Meet the instructor and explore color theory essentials for beginners in acrylic and oil painting, with practical guidance to start mixing, matching, and applying color.
* How often can you match what you are seeing with confidence?
* Do you really understand your colors and what you are capable of having them do?
* How often do you mix muddy colors without intending to?
What you'll learn
A Thorough Understanding of Color
How to Choose Your Colors
How to Match Any Color Quickly and Efficiently
How to Better Use a Color Wheel
How to Choose Paints that Will Give You the Broadest Range of Color and Value
Complete Mastery Over Your Painting Palette
In this self-paced course you will learn color theory (it's pretty simple), why colors work the way they do, and how your colors can play with the other colors on your palette (and stay best friends).
Who Should Take This Course
* If you are a beginner, this course will put you MILES ahead of others because at the end you will have an excellent understanding of how color works, how to match colors, and even more fundamental, where to start with colors!
* And if you are a working artist you also will get a tremendous value from taking this course because it will clear up misconceptions about color, teach you how colors work and therefore completely speed up your mixing process.
* If you have been looking for that 'perfect' primary red, primary blue, and primary yellow, this will absolutely demystify this dilemma.
* If you mixed that perfect color but can't remember how you did it, this class will teach you how to.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
* Whether you work in Oil, Acrylic, or Watercolor, you will learn to break colors down and then rebuild them so that you will understand each color on your palette.
* You will learn how well your colors will play with the other colors on your palette, and how to choose colors you might want to add or take away from your palette.
* You will be able to choose the paints you need to get the broadest range. In other words, you will learn about the colors you choose and then have total control over your palette.
Background Music: Sweet Dreams
Musician: BatchBug
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