Overview
Unit Two
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Course Unit 1 - Techniques
BUILDING BLOCK: BRUSHWORK
variety – thick & thin – thin darks, thick lights – impasto– large to small – point, line, and mass – glazes – feathering – palette knife – carving out – contrast – eye movement Course Unit 2 - Descriptive Brushwork
directional brushstrokes – texture – movement – emotional mood – perspective Course Unit 3 - Focal Areas
focus & detail – mop/rigger – freehand vs. control hand strokes Course Unit 4 - Suggestion
suggestion – selective rendering – simulation of detail – pentimenti – transparent pigments – silhouette – accurate color spots
The character and feeling of your brushwork goes a long way to increasing the pleasure and delight of the person viewing your work. How you apply the paint also determines how much carrying power and luminosity your painting will have. Whatever your media, brushwork (or mark making in the case of pastel painting), is what makes a painting a painting and not a photograph.
Course Unit 5 - Edges
hard and soft edges – lost and found edges – color changes Course Unit 6 - Optical Color Mixing
optical color mixing – complementary, triadic, analogous color mixing – wet-in-wet adjacent brushstrokes – multicolored brushstrokes – layered washes – thick weton-wet layering – multi-layered wet over dry
Course Unit 1 - Key Concepts
BUILDING BLOCK: COLOR
color wheels – complements – triadic color wheel – munsell color wheel – tints & shades – secondary colors – vivid colors & biases Course Unit 2 - Palettes
choosing a palette – thirteen palettes from monochrome to vivid full spectrum – organizing your palette Course Unit 3 - Grays
making grays – low saturation fields – complementary contrast – Godlove’s principle – darks, lights, grays – middle value ranges Course Unit 4 - Color Harmonies
balanced – complementary – analogous – hybrid
Color is why many people love painting. This Building Block will help you understand your pigments better, decide which palettes to use and when, and create beautiful harmony in your paintings.
Edition 2.0
Course Unit 5 - Poly-Isochromes & Spectrum Palettes
Birren color triangle – mono-isochromes and chiaroscuro – poly-isochromes – Ostwald/Munsell tone scales – tonal influence – composing on the palette Course Unit 6 - Advanced Color
luster – iridescence – luminosity – color preferences – color threads– color bridges – nine-pile gradations – glowing whites – keying whites – camouflage
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