Nine Building Blocks

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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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