Oil Painting for Beginners
Color wheel 2
A course by Ale Casanova , Painter and Teacher
About the video: Color wheel 2
Overview
“In this second part of the lesson, I will teach you the secondary colors and I will finish my color wheel by explaining some important points of the organization of those colors.”
In this video lesson Ale Casanova addresses the topic: Color wheel 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Oil Painting for Beginners. Get started with the endless possibilities this painting technique offers and create a composition from start to finish.
Partial transcription of the video
“Color wheel Okay, now we’ll go on to the secondary colors. Do you remember that purple? If I'm not mistaken, it’s this one here. Let's see how it behaves with white. We add a little more white. Let's go on to green. This is the green we used, and we’ll just add a little white to it. And for the second one, a little more. Okay, we're just missing the orange-red. We add a little white. And for the next one, a little more. We have already defined the primary colors, magenta, blue, and yellow, and the secondary ones, red, purple, and green. Now we will talk about tertiaries. They will be the on...”
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Course summary for: Oil Painting for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting

Ale Casanova
A course by Ale Casanova
Alejandro Casanova was born in Valencia, Spain in 1981. After studying Fine Art at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, he moved to Tenerife where he completed his doctorate. He has received various national and European research grants as well as others for the plastic arts.
His work focuses on the human body and portraiture as a window into the creation of plastic art. He also composes oil paintings, although watercolor is his preferred medium as it allows him to work swiftly and effectively using transparency and the richness of the color spectrum to create figurative pieces. His work has been exhibited in different Spanish as well as other European cities and he has also given numerous workshops across Spain.
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