This class teaches you how to create your own set of color and value charts using my favorite limited palette of 7 oil colors plus white. The practice of making a set of color charts will improve your sensitivity to colors and values and you will see a positive shift in the quality of your paintings.

Your class project is to create the Main Chart of your limited palette of seven colors plus white. This practice trains your eyes and brain to think in terms of colors AND values when choosing colors for your paintings and teaches you how to accurately mix five value steps for each color.

By creating your Main Chart and 7 Mixtures Charts, you will learn how your colors perform in tints and shades, and how they work with each other in all of their beautiful mixtures.

If you work in oils or acrylic, you will first learn how to properly gesso paper from an inexpensive, acid-free mixed media pad, as a support for your charts. If you work in watercolor, gouache, or transparent acrylics you will use the natural white of the paper as your surface.

Lastly, in my bonus Tips for Better Paintings, I share with you my favorite ways for creating compelling paintings using these new charts and a heightened sensitivity to color and value.

Please be sure to post your Main Chart (and any other mixture charts or paintings) in the class project gallery so we can all check out what you’ve created!!

Jay Wonsettler

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