Watercolor Fundamentals: Light and Color

Overview

“Now I am going to show you how to carry out the color plan using the triad of secondaries that we saw in the previous lessons.”

In this video lesson Gonzalo Ibáñez addresses the topic: Light and Color Plan 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor Fundamentals: Light and Color. Discover how to observe light and color in the world around you and learn techniques to convey them through your brushstrokes.

Partial transcription of the video

“Light and Color Plan For the next part in our color plan, we will use the secondary color triad that we saw in the previous lessons: orange, purple, and green. Color Plan The process is the same as what we did above, just that now we will use color. For our first stage of higher tonal values, we will use warm colors that will simulate the primary-source light of the sun. To do so I will use orange. We never use it in pure form. We always gray it out a little. This way we achieve harmony, because you have to imagine the colors like a family tree, they have to share DNA. So if I have orange i...”

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Course summary for: Watercolor Fundamentals: Light and Color

• Level: Beginner
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  Illustration

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  Architectural Illustration, Painting, Watercolor Painting