Color Fundamentals Information

Learn color as it applies to any field.

This class will give you an overview of color principles and demonstrate how to apply them. Instructor Mary Jane Begin is an award-winning illustrator and author of children’s picture books, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and professor in the Illustration Department.

In this class she covers:

• The elements of color, including value, temperature, saturation, hierarchy, complements, light, harmony, and contrast
• The use of color complements in image making
• The relationship of color to the medium and expression

Through a series of demonstrations, you’ll learn how to work with color and ultimately make better color decisions. This class covers color theory foundations that applies to all image making, in design, art, illustration, photography, and beyond.

What You’ll Learn In Color Fundamentals?

1. Class Introduction
2. Understanding the Basics of Color
3. Color Contrast and Hierarchy
4. Saturation or Vibrancy of Color
5. Ground or Surface Color
6. What is Color Harmony?
7. Color Palette
8. Set-up Chalk & Charcoal Demo
9. Demo: Sketch Simple Still Life
10. Demo: Establish Value Structure
11. Demo: Find Temperature Balance
12. Demo: Shadow & Highlight Placement
13. Demo: Establish Dimensional Form of Object
14. Set-up Watercolor Demo
15. Demo: Establish Color Ground
16. Demo: Establish Colors for Object
17. Demo: Sketch Object onto Watercolor
18. Demo: Color Subtraction & Value Range
19. Demo: Color Blocking for Composition
20. Demo: Establish the Shadow Tone
21. Demo: Utilization of Opaque Color
22. Desaturate Image in a Picture

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