Exploring colour
Follow in depth exercises exploring five basic criteria for colour identity and gain confidence using colour in your work. You will learn to identify shades of white, and look at tone, hue, temperature and saturation using a range of materials including pastels, paint and collage techniques.
Ability: Intermediate
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 9 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects.
Access: Six months of online access to all of the course content.
Ability: Intermediate
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 9 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects.
Access: Six months of online access to all of the course content.
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Introduction to tutor Mark Cazalet and workshop overview
Getting started
- Introduction to colour theory
- Materials and equipment
Workshops
Completion
- Exploring colour depth with still-life
- Work with limited colours to interpret a landscape
- Translating a composition into colour planes
- Exploring opacity and transparency
Completion
- Ideas going forward
- Further information and resources
Course includes:
You will need:
Equipment
Materials Exercise One
Materials Exercise two
Try experimenting with papers that are hot press smooth and textured like Ingres Mi-teintes or Hahnemuhle.
Materials Exercise three
Materials Exercise four
- Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
- A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
- Practical tasks to complete
- Helpful materials suppliers list
- Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
- Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
- Additional notes and ideas
You will need:
Equipment
- A1 or A2 drawing board
Materials Exercise One
- A1 or A2 Cartridge paper, a standard white or off-white between 130-200gsm without texture
- 1B Pencil
- Set of acrylic paints. A standard range of colours would include the following but use what you have, it is not necessary to buy them all. (Please note that individual manufacturers have their own names for generic colours and that between watercolour, oils, acrylics and gouaches these names will differ):Titanium White, Prussian Blue, Colbalt Blue, Ceurealean Blue, Ultramarine, Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Naples Yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Cimson. Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Terra Verte (Chromium Dioxide), Viridian (Phthalo), Cadmium Green, Ivory Black.
- Brushes - it is as important to have large as it is small fine brushes. House painting brushes can be good as can synthetic brushes. You will have to build your collection as you need them but start with a basic set
Materials Exercise two
- Conte pastel sticks – black, white and sanguine
- A1 or A2 Paper – 1 sheet of each of black, warm grey, green grey, dark grey
Try experimenting with papers that are hot press smooth and textured like Ingres Mi-teintes or Hahnemuhle.
Materials Exercise three
- A1 or A2 cartridge paper or a sketchbook
- Oil pastels, chalk pastels or paints
Materials Exercise four
- A3 or A4 sketch book
- Cartridge paper
- A range of coloured tissue paper
- Rice paste/Nori glue or PVA
- Khadi coloured handmade paper
- Glue spreader
- Cheap paintbrush
- Scissors (optional)
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Tutor
Mark Cazalet
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