Introduction to Color Theory: From Beginner to Butterfly

Do you struggle with picking a color palette that just works for your paintings? 

Do you feel like you’re good with color, but have a hard time making it look good in your art?

This is the class for you! I’ll be giving you an introduction to color theory to help you crack the code on how to pick colors for your paintings that will make them soar! We’ll also go over the basics of painting with gouache so that with practice, you can master the medium.

We’ll use sketchbook exercises to learn different color theory for painting with the opaque watercolor medium, like:

• Learning how to talk about color: hue, value, saturation, temperature
• Painting a color wheel
• Making the whole rainbow with just three colors
• Creating palettes that sing
• Painting analogous, complementary, and split complementary color schemes
• How to use color to help images pop off backgrounds
  
  And so much more pro tips are packed in between these lessons!