Course curriculum

  • 1
    Gathering Materials and Preparing Your Still Life Set Up
    • Introduction to the Mastering Colour Course
    • First, Paint a Piece of Fruit
    • Collect Your Materials
    • Making Your Shadow Box
    • Create Your Set Up
    • Balancing the Light
  • 2
    Module Two: Seeing Colour Better: Mixing and Matching the Colours You See (2 weeks)
  • 3
    Module 3: Light and Shadow: Learn to Model Form with Colour (2 weeks)
    • Introduction to the Mastering Light and Shadow Module
    • Value Cube Studies: Drawing out your first sight size study
    • Value Cube Studies: Checking the values of your first study
    • Value 6 Cube Assignment
    • Value Spheres
    • Value 6 Sphere Assignment
    • 5YR 6/4 Cube Part One: Finding the Colours
    • 5YR 6/4 Cube Part Two: Mixing the Colours
    • 5YR 6/4 Cube Part Three: Painting the Study
    • 5YR 6/12 Cube
    • Colour spheres
    • 5YR 6/12 Sphere: Introduction
    • 5YR 6/12 Sphere: Judging and Mixing the Colours
    • 5YR 6/12 Sphere: Painting the Study
  • 4
    Module 4: Make it Come Alive: Painting a Piece of Fruit (2 weeks)
    • Introduction: Creating Light and Depth With Colour
    • Cube to sphere to fruit - value
    • Cube to sphere to fruit - Colour
  • 5
    Put it into practice: Paint a Still Life (2 weeks)
    • Introduction: Paint Full Colour, Sight-Size Still Life
    • Full Colour Block in: Introduction
    • Full Colour Block in 1: The Background and Foreground Colours
    • Full Colour Block in 2: The Colours of the Apple
    • Full Colour Block in 3: Painting the Study
    • Final Assignment: A finished still life