Mastering Color Archive

Light Effects

For the final lesson of this “Mastering Color” course, we’ll take a look at light and shadow, and how that changes depending on both light and the surrounding objects and atmosphere. You’ll also learn how color changes around a form, …

Color Harmony

Let’s bring it all together in this lesson, where we’ll be looking at color harmony and how to achieve it in a painting. Although it’s a subtle touch, color harmony is used to unify the bigger picture, so colors won’t …

Manipulating Color

The next step to mastering color is to learn how to manipulate it in order to get the effect you want. What messages and/or feelings do you want your painting to carry? And what is the best way to achieve …

Mixing Color

This session answers one of the biggest questions in Art: Which colors should I mix, use, and buy? An essential step to mastering color, you’ll learn and experiment with different color charts, and apply knowledge gained in the previous lesson …

Value

It’s time to paint! For this lesson, you’ll learn why value is more important than hue or chroma, as value determines an object’s form. Stemming from this are 7 painting exercises that will help you learn how to turn a …

Describing Color

Just before breaking out the paints is one last breakdown of color that will help you analyze and measure colors in a much more objective and standardized way. You’ll learn that color can be divided into 3 main elements – …

Seeing Color

In this session, you’ll learn why realistic colors are so difficult to capture on paper, and how our perception of it actually hinders us from understanding how they work. While our eyes allow us to see the world around, the …

Color Theory

Before learning how to mix or use colors, it’s important to understand how colors work. Why do artists use color? Why do some colors clash, while others create a fascinating harmony? What do colors represent in a work of art? …