A Beginners Guide to Color

A Beginner's Guide to Color

This course is designed to help the beginner painter learn about color theory and color mixing. You will start by learning some basic terminology and then slowly build your fundamental color mixing skills through simple step by step assignments.

Course Curriculum

1. Introduction
1. Materials
1. Terminology
1. Color Disk and Rundown
1. Assignment #1 (Part 1)
1. Assignment #1 (Part 2)
1. Assignment #2
1. Natural Light and Perceived Color
1. A look inside my sketchbook
1. Assignment #3 (part 1)
1. Assignment #3 (Part 2)
1. Assignment #3 (Part 3)
1. Painting a Farm Building & Landscape
1. Painting a Farm Building & Landscape
1. Simplifying Chaos
1. Painting Blocks in the Midday Sun
1. Introduction to a Split Primary Palette
1. Blocks Before Sunset
1. What's Next? Changing the Mood With New Color Palettes
1. Final Thoughts

About this course

$30.00
20 lessons
3 hours of video content

Student Review

Fantastic Course

Kristy Peterson

This course was fun and worth the purchase. I loved learning and creating the small pallet color wheels. Nigel simplified and made it easy to understand values and hues. The exercise in this course were fun and really helped me to understand va...

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This course was fun and worth the purchase. I loved learning and creating the small pallet color wheels. Nigel simplified and made it easy to understand values and hues. The exercise in this course were fun and really helped me to understand values, light and shadow and have a better understanding of how colors and values change the mood of your painting. I highly recommend this course and I am excited for future courses.

I highly recommend this course

Margritta Jodscheit

The course structure is excellent, with content that is clearly and effectively presented, making it easy to understand. Overall I feel much more confident in applying color theory to my projects. Thank you for such a rewarding experience!

The course structure is excellent, with content that is clearly and effectively presented, making it easy to understand. Overall I feel much more confident in applying color theory to my projects. Thank you for such a rewarding experience!

Excellent bird's eyeview to understand colors

Flo Mo

If you want to grasp quickly the theory of color with relevant and fun practices, this course will really help. Just the right length for someone busy, perfectly condensed with the right content. Worth the price totally!

If you want to grasp quickly the theory of color with relevant and fun practices, this course will really help. Just the right length for someone busy, perfectly condensed with the right content. Worth the price totally!

Learn how to create paintings full of color and energy.

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