| # |
Lesson Name |
Description |
| 1 |
Introduction |
- Why Color?
- Putting Color in the Brain
- Learning About Color
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| 2 |
A Wheel of Color |
- A Wheel of Color
- Ugly Corner in a Cityscape
- Let’s Expand a Bit
- Moving on to a Pastel World
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| 3 |
Colors with Pastels |
- Moving to a Pastel World
- Some Thoughts
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| 4 |
The History of Color |
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| 5 |
Color Perspective |
- Is color perspective important?
- Distance affects all colors
- Weather affects all colors
- Studying color perspective
- Exercise in color perspective
- Color perspective in houses/figures
- Color perspective in foliage
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| 6 |
Importance of Value in Color |
- Avoid holes and jumping-out colors
- Light and Shadow
- Studying Light and Shadow
- Color and Perception
- Optical Illusions
- Exercises in Optical Illusion
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| 7 |
The Meanings of Color |
- Effects of After-Images
- Colors and Memory
- The Meaning of Colors
- Symbolic Colors
- What do Colors Stand For?
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| 8 |
Psychology of Color |
- Phsycological effects in painting
- How to Judge your Color Selection
- Characteristic Color Combinations
- Color in Photography vs. Painting
- Colors in Painting vs. Colors in a Room
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| 9 |
Characteristics of Manufactured Colors |
- Brief Survey of Painting Media
- Pigments we use
- Opacity and Transparency
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| 10 |
Use and Selection of Colors |
- The Colors You Need
- Can You Work with Just Primary Colors?
- There are Several Reds, Yellows, Blues
- Recommended Lists of Colors
- Colors in oil painting
- Colors in casein, tempera, gouache
- Colors in watercolor
- List of transparent watercolors
- Colors for polymer painting
- Colors for pastel painting
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| 11 |
What Your Colors Will Do |
- Reds
- Orange
- Yellows
- Blues
- Violet
- Greens
- Browns
- Gray
- Blacks
- Whites
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| 12 |
Impastos and Color Mixing |
- Impastos, Gels, Extenders
- Mixing Colors
- Why mix colors?
- Seeing color differences
- Actual mixing of colors
- Exercise in color mixing
- Making colors darker
- Using black & white properly
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| 13 |
Color Effects |
- Color Effects
- Exercise in color effects
- Harmony and disharmony in colors
- Exercise in color harmony
- What’s a color scheme?
- Color effects by natural light
- Variation in sunlight
- Shadows cast by the sun
- Painting daylight streaming through a window
- Painting sunset colors
- Painting shiny metal effects
- Paintnig reflections in water
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| 14 |
Color Effects (part 2) |
- Color effects by Artificial Light
- Limitations of articifial light
- Good features of artificial light
- Should we paint by artificial light?
- Painting light by showing its effect
- Painting a cityscape at night
- The importance of careful observation
- Exercise in perceiving color by artificial light
- Painting indoor subjects by artificial light
- How to achieve brightness
- Important and exciting shadows
- Light can be placed in unusual positions
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| 15 |
Optical Effects in Color and DesignANDExpressing yourself in color |
- Optical Effects in Color and Design
- Color of glass and water
- What is Op Art?
- Importance of Repeat Patterns
- Optical gadgets and toys
- Painting motion
- Expressing yourself in color
- Is color a medium of self expression?
- Self expression in art is a new idea
- Art and psychoanalysis
- Identify yourself with your art
- People respond to colors differently
- Similarities between opposites
- Testing responses of non-professional painters
- Expressing hatred and love
- Expressing sadness and happiness
- Is self expression in painting honest?
- Is art a universal language?
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| 16 |
Conclusion |
- Artistic self-expression in the past
- Glossary of terms
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