Mastering Colour

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Module 1: Gathering Materials and Preparing Your Still Life Set Up
- Introduction to the Mastering Colour Course FREE PREVIEW
- First, Paint a Piece of Fruit
- Collect Your Materials
- Making Your Shadow Box FREE PREVIEW
- Create Your Set Up FREE PREVIEW
- Balancing the Light FREE PREVIEW
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Module 2: Seeing Colour Better: Mixing and Matching the Colours You See
- About the Colour Matching Module
- Introduction to the Colour Matching Module
- The Munsell Approach to Understanding Colour FREE PREVIEW
- Placing the Colour Chips correctly in the Munsell Student Book FREE PREVIEW
- Making a Munsell Value Scale FREE PREVIEW
- Matching colour: Mixing Local Colours Accurately
- Colour Matching: 5R FREE PREVIEW
- Colour Matching: 5YR
- Colour Matching: 5Y
- Colour Matching: 5GY
- Colour Matching: 5Y 8/4
- Colour Matching: 5YR 6/4
- Matching Real World Locals
- Colour Matching: A Lemon FREE PREVIEW
- Colour Matching: A Pear
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Module 3: Light and Shadow: Learn to Model Form with Colour
- 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
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Module 4: Make it Come Alive: Painting a Piece of Fruit
- Introduction: Creating Light and Depth With Colour
- Cube to sphere to fruit - value
- Cube to sphere to fruit - Colour
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Module 5: Put it into Practice: Full Colour Still Life
- 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

Mastering Colour

A flexible course on how to paint with natural and beautiful colour in oils. Learn at your own pace and in your own time.

Course curriculum

Module 1: Gathering Materials and Preparing Your Still Life Set Up

Module 2: Seeing Colour Better: Mixing and Matching the Colours You See

Module 3: Light and Shadow: Learn to Model Form with Colour

Module 4: Make it Come Alive: Painting a Piece of Fruit

Module 5: Put it into Practice: Full Colour Still Life