Understanding Color & How to Mix It
What you'll learn
- A Thorough Understanding of Color
- How to Choose Your Colors
- Which Way a Color Leans and How that Affects Color Mixes
- What a Color Can and Can't Do
- How to Match Any Color Quickly and Efficiently
- How to Read a Paint Tube and Why this is Important
- How to Better Use a Color Wheel
- How to Choose Paints that Will Give You the Broadest Range of Color and Value
- Complete Control Over Your Painting Palette
Requirements
- Make sure you have your supplies
- Mark your canvas into 1" grids
Description
* How often do you mix muddy colors without intending to?
* 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?
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 which 3 questions to ask yourself so that you can not only mix 'that' color, but match it, over and over again.
* If you want to introduce other colors to your palette but don't know if it will be a good fit, this class will teach you how to analyze a tube of paint and what all that information is telling you.
* Do you have a drawer full of colors but none are quite right? By the end of this course you will know which ones are redundant, which ones might be really helpful, and which ones you might want to use more of.
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.
WHAT YOU WILL GET:
* In addition to all the class lectures and videos, you will have my email address so that if you have ANY questions about what you are learning I will answer them very quickly.
* Plus, if it's something that will take more than just a simple answer by email we can arrange to speak by phone or Skype. I want you to succeed.
AT THE END OF THIS COURSE YOU WILL COME AWAY WITH:
- A Thorough Understanding of Color
- How to Choose Your Colors
- Which Way a Color Leans and How That Affects Color Mixes
- What a Color Can and Can't Do
- How to Match ANY Color Easily and Efficiently
- How To Read a Paint Tube and Why This is Important
- How to Better Use a Color Wheel
- Complete Control Over Your Painting Palette
Who this course is for:
- This course is for Oil, Acrylic or Watercolor Painters
- Any one who wants to make clean colors
- Any one who wants a better understanding of how colors work and why
- Any one who is making 'muddy' colors and wants to understand how not to do that
- The 3 questions you need to ask before you start to mix
- How to match colors
- Any painter that wants to know more about color and color theory.
- Beginners and Intermediate painters
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 248 Reviews
- 1,308 Students
- 2 Courses
Originally from upstate New York, I moved to Southern California in my early 20’s. While I've always worked with my hands in the needle arts, it was my husband who encouraged me to begin drawing and painting when he gave me an easel as a gift. Knowing I wanted to pursue a classical tradition I sought out teachers who would help me develop my skills in still life and portrait work and enrolled at LAAFA (Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art) and Art Center College of Design for more instruction in Anatomy. I continued my education with Ryan Wurmser and Aaron Westerberg and then went on to become a Certified Instructor in the Michael Wilcox School of Color.
For over 5 years I taught in a children's program of a well known Southern California art school and now teach privately out of my studio as well as conducting workshops and classes on both the east and west coasts of the United States.
I am a juried member of Women Painters West and I'm the current president of the Angeles Crest Art Guild. I'm happy to say that I've won several awards for my work.