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Creative Color - for Fine Art Painters!
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Creative Color - for Fine Art Painters!

Inspiring new ways for painters to use color! Any medium or style will benefit.
Created byNancy Reyner
Last updated 7/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Painting techniques, tinting, color finishing tips for panel sides, color variety, creating spatial depth.
  • Optimal color palettes
  • Color blending techniques
  • Color mixing tips

Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 58m total length

  • Chapter 1 - Creating an Enhanced Full Palette4:55

    Learn the optimal palette and set-up of paint colors for maximum ease, accessibility and color range in your painting. Please read the pdf resource included with this lecture.

  • Chapter 2 Project - Varying Reds8:52

    Using the palette you created in the previous lecture, create a range of color variations using a red line. By shifting the colors it will have more interest and can take on the illusion of real volume in space.

  • Chapter 3 - Color Variety in Painting8:01

    In this video we take the previous project even further using blue, in a demonstration that takes a link and turns it into a river.  Please read the pdf resource included with this lecture.

  • Chapter 4 - Vary Color Using Stripes14:55

    Painting stripes is a great way to practice more variety with color. Additional interest is added by working with variations of soft and hard edges.

  • Chapter 5 – Favorite Colors & New Painting Ideas8:06

    Experiment with this fun way of making a painting by starting with a handful of your favorite custom mixed colors.

  • Chapter 6 – Using Color to Frame & Finish Your Painting13:15

    Discover a great way to finish a painting without the expense of framing. Learn to mix optimal neutral colors and create super soft blends. Please read the pdf - Resource 3 - attached with this lecture in the resource section.

  • Chapter 7 – Conclusion0:23

    Concluding remarks from your instructor.

Requirements

  • Some previous experience with painting in acrylic or oil. Good for beginning painters as well.

Description

Learn from this professional fine art painter her special secrets to color success!

Oil, acrylic, egg tempera and other mediums will all be easier to use when you try this method to premix "color families". This special technique allows you to apply a color with multiple variations, so you don't have to spend too much time while you paint to color mix and prepare your colors. You will also learn how to ensure your composition and design are engaging, and your painting is successful.

Make color decisions quickly adding more freedom for your creativity. Learn many cool tips and tricks with color; such as optimal color palettes for painting, best color mixing methods, and how to save money by knowing the best choices for paint colors. Most paintings benefit from using methods to create the illusion of depth, or the experience of space. This is true for both realistic and abstract paintings. This course includes ways to achieve this easily and quickly.

Get perfectly smooth color gradations, and make complementary colors your new best friend. Also included is a great way to use paint to finish your artwork with a contemporary look without framing. Add expertise to your work by including more variety and interest using these innovative color mixing and application techniques.

Who this course is for:

  • Any level fine art painter, working with acrylic or oil paints.

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