Watercolor Mixing and Matching in Real Life is a class designed to build your essential watercolor skills around mixing paints, understanding basic color theory, and developing the superpower of matching the colors you see in real life! Your art will immediately stand out because many people do not take the time to learn this essential watercolor skill. The understanding you gain in this class will not only improve your watercolor but will carry over to your other artistic and design endeavors.This class is for beginner to intermediate levels of drawing and watercolor, however, more advanced artists that want to refresh or level up their color theory and color matching will benefit from the class. Each lesson has optional extra credit assignments for more advanced students.
What you will learn:
- The basics of color theory.
- How to mix watercolors to closely match the colors you see in real life in nature!
- Which colors are enemies and which colors are friends.
- When to “tone down” saturated colors.
- How to mix from primary colors.
- How to keep bright colors saturated.
Why Take this Class:
Because color matching is a super power! You’ll get a hands-on way to play and learn about color theory and guess what? Color theory can be applied to almost all creative realms and can also just help you enjoy life because we live in a colorful world but most people don’t know how to understand it, appreciate it, or talk about it.
Who it is for:
This class is perfect for people who want to improve their watercolor painting skills. It is also helpful for anyone that uses color in creative ways such as designers, colored pencil artists, nature journalers, plein air painters, pastel artists, oil painters, and graphic designers.
