Learn about color using a hands-on approach: Collect color swatches and wheel and do some creative color collecting to start integrating your color mixing knowledge.

For the class project, you can do as many or as few of the exercises as you'd like. In the first part we'll be doing a deep dive into collecting tints, shades, tones, hues and complementaries to complexity your use of color and train your hands & eyes to find the colors you're looking for.

Color Swatch Collecting

Collecting grays - color swatches
Collecting tints & shades - color swatches
- White + Red
- Red + Black
- White + Yellow
- Yellow + Black
- White + Blue
- Blue + Black
Color wheel with 3 primaries—> 1 or multiple
Warm/cool exercise
Complementary grays + neutrals — swatches
- Blue + complementary + tints
- Yellow + complementary + tints
- Red + complementary + tints
  - Color wheel to help you find complementaries: https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/

Creative Color Collecting

In this section, you're going to be creating a bunch of different paintings using specific color palettes and a variety of prompts to keep you inspired! Challenge yourself, try different things, view them as experiments & explorations along your artistic journey of creative color collecting.

Glorious Grays — Black + White
Monochrome Magic — Black + White + 1 Hue (figurative)
More Monochrome Magic — Black + White + 1 Hue (abstract)
A Tale of Two Tones — Black + White + 2 Hues
Oh So Few — Few colors
Many More — Many colors
Complementaries: Rainbows in the Dark & Little by Little
They're all Just Eggs
Pattern Play
Of Two Minds
Inspiration part 1: Beauty of Mud ---> link to my color collecting Pinterest board, for reference or inspiration: https://pin.it/hvoz3rmpqagz5e
Inspiration part 2: Quiet Places
Inspiration part 3: Looking for Leprechauns
Inspiration part 4: A Vivid World
Shifting Perspectives
Love All Around
Translating Sound

Resources

Connect with me on Instagram and on Patreon.
Check out my other classes on my Skillshare profile.

About black and white painting:

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/monochrome-national-gallery/index.html

https://www.widewalls.ch/grisaille-painting/

About duotone illustration: http://www.muddycolors.com/2017/11/duotone-illustrations/

About monochromes: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-monochrome-painting-good

About muted colors: https://drawpaintacademy.com/tonalism/

About color wheels vs color vision: https://blog.asmartbear.com/color-wheels.html

About the YURMBY color wheel: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/02/color-wheel-part-7.html

For a super in-depth deep dive into color theory, pigments, etc: https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/wcolor.html

About art movements: Les Mouvements Dans la Peinture, Larousse.

Music by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com)

Vignesh Raja

Digital artist to traditional art

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