Painting Expressive Color Studies with a Limited Palette

Painting Expressive Color Studies with a Limited Palette

Take a deep dive with me and learn my entire approach to color studies. This guide will help you to break free from color picking your reference photos and unlock a whole new world of color possibilities, all with a limited palette.

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Course curriculum

1. Replace 1 Primary - Painting the Color Wheel and Transferring Linework
2. Replace 1 Primary - Tone and Painting
3. Replace 1 Primary - Second Layer & Final Details
4. Low Chroma "Primaries" - Painting the Color Wheel and Linework
5. Low Chroma Primaries - Tone and Block In
6. Low Chroma Primaries - Second Layer, Details, & Labelling
7. Re-Use Your Palette Paper
8. Sketchbook Examples & Section 1 Assignment
9. Assignment 1
1. Value as Foundation Introduction
2. Transfer Linework & Mixing the Values
3. How to change the lighting Key with limited Value Studies
4. High Key Study with Warm Primaries
5. From Reference Study with Warm Primaries
6. Low Key Study with Warm Primaries
7. Assignment 2
8. Assignment 2
1. Finding Palette Inspiration from the Masters
2. Nocturne with Blues
3. Re-inventing the Light Source
4. Using the Luminous Palette
5. Analogous Color Scheme
6. High Key Painting Inspired by Édouard Vuillard
7. Sketchbook Examples & Section 3 Assignment
8. Assignment 3
1. Secondary Wheel & Simplifying the Reference
2. Cold Shift - Tone & Block In
3. Cold Shift - Second Layer & Final Details
4. Warm Shift - Tone and Block In
5. Warm Shift - Second Layer & Final Details
6. Assignment 4
7. Assignment 4
1. Conclusion

About this course

$57.00
36 lessons
4.5 hours of video content

Student Reviews

Creating New Worlds With Color

Henry Lambrecht

I really enjoyed the course, not only for its clear guidance but also for the way it encouraged me to experiment, trust my intuition, and discover new ways to express myself with a limited palette. Limiting the palette helped me understand color h...

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I really enjoyed the course, not only for its clear guidance but also for the way it encouraged me to experiment, trust my intuition, and discover new ways to express myself with a limited palette. Limiting the palette helped me understand color harmony on a deeper level and made the whole process feel more intentional and expressive. The exercises were clear, inspiring, and surprisingly freeing. I’m truly excited to create new worlds with colors and explore even more possibilities in my future painting process.

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Kim Lloyd

Well explained and great demos. Very well presented.

Well explained and great demos. Very well presented.

Best Online Color Study Course

Beta Golchin

Ever since I discovered Nigel on Instagram Ive been mesmerised and intrigued by his style of painting. Every time he posts something I'm stunned by the beauty and simplicity of his work. I thought I understood color theory until I took his course ...

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Ever since I discovered Nigel on Instagram Ive been mesmerised and intrigued by his style of painting. Every time he posts something I'm stunned by the beauty and simplicity of his work. I thought I understood color theory until I took his course and was completed stunned by how he broke it down to a fun, digestible and a simple process making it enjoyable and addictive with every application. I see the world in a completely different way now and I can't wait to apply his methods and techniques to my next painting projects!

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