Coloring with Watercolor: Discover Your Chromatic Character

Overview

“In this class, I will teach you how to analyze an image and its color palette by dividing colors into four categories: base, complement, contrast and detail. This is when we start our study notebook and we will deeply analyze the references that make up the mood board.”

In this video lesson Luiza Normey addresses the topic: Study notebook: base, complement, contrast and detail, which is part of the Domestika online course: Coloring with Watercolor: Discover Your Chromatic Character. Learn to create a custom color palette and express your personal style with watercolors.

Partial transcription of the video

“Study Notebook: Base, Complement, Contrast and Detail In this lesson, we'll go deeper into our chromatic preferences. Analyzing what colors we most like to use. For this exercise, we can use a notebook or a sheet of paper. I'll use this notebook I used for other exercises. We'll start to take the colors from our mood board to our notebook. Before, I used to do it like this, I'd take an image I liked, I took the colors I had, put them in a palette and made the painting. Sometimes it didn't work and I didn't know why. After many years, I found out that the proportion we use each color, change...”

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Course summary for: Coloring with Watercolor: Discover Your Chromatic Character

• Level: Beginner
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• 2481 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 39m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Color Theory, Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting