Course 7: Color Theory Grade 1, Color Fundamentals
About the Course
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of color theory for painting. You will practice on color mixing principles using gouache techniques. All practices will help you to understand the relationship between complimentary colors and color values to settle them in a composition.
By practising on making colourful grey tones, you will learn color values, and will represent those values into an artwork depicting what you see in nature. Observing colors in nature and recreating them with any medium is an incredibly complex area which needs dedicated practice.
In course 7, we will review commonly misunderstood terms; value, tone, hue, saturation, shade, and tint. You will learn all these terms practically through 8 lessons using gouache techniques.
Course Outcomes
- Better understanding of color theory for painting
- Better understanding of color composition principles
- Improvement in visual sensitivity to recognize and analyze colors in nature
- Use of gouache techniques and principles
- Proficiency in using hue and saturation of colors
- Use of tonal values in order to make colorful grey
- Better understanding of the contrast in colors: coldness, warmness, darkness, and brightness through gouache techniques
Course 7 Practices
Session 1: Color Wheel & Composition. Extracting secondary and tertiary colors from primary colors
Session 1: Color Wheel & Composition. Extracting secondary and tertiary colors from primary colors
Session 1: Color Wheel & Composition. Extracting secondary and tertiary colors from primary colors
Creating a composition by applying all colors from color wheel
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Session 2: Complementary Colors. Practice on complementary colors interaction in a painting
Session 1: Color Wheel & Composition. Extracting secondary and tertiary colors from primary colors
Session 1: Color Wheel & Composition. Extracting secondary and tertiary colors from primary colors
Increasing brightness and intensity of colors, extracting shadow, and creating focal point in painting
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Session 3: Hue and Saturation. Practice on the level of Brilliance or Dullness of Hues
Session 1: Color Wheel & Composition. Extracting secondary and tertiary colors from primary colors
Session 3: Hue and Saturation. Practice on the level of Brilliance or Dullness of Hues
Making a balance between saturated and brilliant colors in a composition
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Session 4: Value, Tint, Shade, and Tone Practice on colors darkness or lightness
Session 6: Color Temperature, light and Shadow Conveying a feeling of depth and three dimensions
Session 3: Hue and Saturation. Practice on the level of Brilliance or Dullness of Hues
Creating value scale through analyzing a painting
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Bristol Paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Session 5: Color Temperature. Warm and Cool Colors
Session 6: Color Temperature, light and Shadow Conveying a feeling of depth and three dimensions
Session 6: Color Temperature, light and Shadow Conveying a feeling of depth and three dimensions
Creating a sense of depth in painting
Materials:
Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Bristol Paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Session 6: Color Temperature, light and Shadow Conveying a feeling of depth and three dimensions
Session 6: Color Temperature, light and Shadow Conveying a feeling of depth and three dimensions
Session 6: Color Temperature, light and Shadow Conveying a feeling of depth and three dimensions
Transforming Shapes into forms
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Bristol Paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Session 7: Colors Interaction Part A. Study on Value Map
Session 8: Colors Interaction Part B. How Hues effect each other
Session 8: Colors Interaction Part B. How Hues effect each other
Drawing subjects following their tonal value by applying graphite
Materials:
- Graphite; 4B-8B drawing pencil
- Bristol paper
- Drawing board
Session 8: Colors Interaction Part B. How Hues effect each other
Session 8: Colors Interaction Part B. How Hues effect each other
Session 8: Colors Interaction Part B. How Hues effect each other
Paint the subject, using gradation of tones of the color following a model and a value sketch like a map
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Bristol Paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Course 8: Color Theory Grade 2, Color And VISION
About the Course
All painting is an interchange of warm and cool colors and dark and light values. In this course, you will be exploring various ways of manifesting color interactions to one another and in changing conditions in order to create a painting.
The practises in this course, encourage you to discover relationships between colors and their values. Through making value maps, using graphite, you can assign light and dark values to the sets of color based on natural objects and atmospheric perspective. By analysing the colors, you can describe them, and as a result, you would be able to convey what you see in nature into your art through proper color mixing methods. By completing 4 separate practices, you will learn to create variety of effects applying gouache paint, and being improved in practical use of color in painting.
At the end of the course, you will be reflecting your knowledge of color theory developing your language and style through creating a painting. This approach helps you to explore the subject on your own language being ready to practice more advanced mediums as well as unconventional techniques through upper courses.
Course Outcomes
- Control over wash techniques
- Better adjustment between different values in a composition
- Better control over forms and tonal values
- Discover relationships between colors and their values
- Modify and manipulate a real world subject into an abstract forms
- Ability to observe and analyze colors
Course 8 Practices
Session 1: Color Value, Part A-1. Simplifying The Forms - Study On Grey Values
Session 2: Color Value, Part A-2. Assigning Colors In Painting To Match The Value Map
Session 2: Color Value, Part A-2. Assigning Colors In Painting To Match The Value Map
Creating a value map following the source image
Materials:
- Graphite; 4B-8B drawing pencil
- Bristol paper
- Drawing board
Session 2: Color Value, Part A-2. Assigning Colors In Painting To Match The Value Map
Session 2: Color Value, Part A-2. Assigning Colors In Painting To Match The Value Map
Session 2: Color Value, Part A-2. Assigning Colors In Painting To Match The Value Map
Creating a composition following the source image
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Session 3: Color Value, Part B-1. Simplifying Components Extracting Abstract Forms
Session 2: Color Value, Part A-2. Assigning Colors In Painting To Match The Value Map
Session 4: Color Value, Part B-2. Arranging Colorful Greys In A Composition, Dry Brush Techniques
Creating a value map following the source image
Materials:
- Graphite; 4B and 8B drawing pencil
- Charcoal stick, medium hardness
- Masking tape
- Bristol paper
- Drawing Board
Session 4: Color Value, Part B-2. Arranging Colorful Greys In A Composition, Dry Brush Techniques
Session 4: Color Value, Part B-2. Arranging Colorful Greys In A Composition, Dry Brush Techniques
Session 4: Color Value, Part B-2. Arranging Colorful Greys In A Composition, Dry Brush Techniques
Creating lines by modifying a pressure on applicator and desaturating the medium.
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Bristol Paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Session 5: Color and Vision, Part A. Reflecting Natural Objects In Drawing
Session 4: Color Value, Part B-2. Arranging Colorful Greys In A Composition, Dry Brush Techniques
Session 5: Color and Vision, Part A. Reflecting Natural Objects In Drawing
Developing a composition through overlapping organic forms
Materials:
- Graphite; 4B-8B drawing pencil
- Bristol paper
- Drawing board
Session 6: Color and Vision, Part B, Color Observation
Session 4: Color Value, Part B-2. Arranging Colorful Greys In A Composition, Dry Brush Techniques
Session 5: Color and Vision, Part A. Reflecting Natural Objects In Drawing
Making a color chart based on observing natural objects
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Bristol Paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Session 7: Color and Vision, Part C
Session 8: Effects of Atmospheric Perspective
Session 8: Effects of Atmospheric Perspective
Color arrangement in a composition
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Bristol Paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape
Session 8: Effects of Atmospheric Perspective
Session 8: Effects of Atmospheric Perspective
Session 8: Effects of Atmospheric Perspective
Creating a painting through personal approach to values, colors, and forms
Materials:
- Gouache set
- Brush set
- Watercolor paper
- Bristol Paper
- Tray
- Jar
- Paper towel
- Painter Tape