Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings
The Basic Color Wheel 1
A course by Don Kilpatrick III , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: The Basic Color Wheel 1
Overview
“Next, I will give an overview of the basic color wheel and mix each of the colors on it—you will see how the traditional primaries of red, blue, and yellow aren't necessarily set in stone. I will then discuss various related terms such as chroma, split complementaries, triads, and tetrads. Once we've covered the foundations, you will create complementary color strips. I will teach you how to effectively apply the concept of local color as well as the colors that surround it. ”
In this video lesson Don Kilpatrick III addresses the topic: The Basic Color Wheel 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings. Use a sketchbook as a tool to develop your artistic style by exploring color theory and other painting principles to document the world around you.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Basic Color Wheel In this lesson, we'll talk about color wheel basics, how you can utilize a basic 12 hue or color wheel to achieve great results for your final project. One of the great things about having this small pocket color wheel is it helps you understand terminology related to the color wheel that you sometimes forget while you're painting. Things such as, when I turn it around here, a split complementary, which is taking a complement... in this case, you have a green or a blue-green, and the split complement of that would be an orange-yellow and a violet-red, whereas the com...”
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Course summary for: Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings
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Architectural Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching
Don Kilpatrick III
A course by Don Kilpatrick III
Don Kilpatrick III is an American artist, illustrator, and educator based in Detroit. He received his bachelor’s degree in illustration at Utah State University, and went on to receive a master’s in the same field at Syracuse University. He is currently the department chairman in the Illustration Department at the College for Creative Studies.
Don is also a freelance artist and part of the collaborative project the Detroit Wood Type Co. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, and has been featured in publications like Fortune, the L.A. Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Other notable projects include designing the Olympic medal for the Winter Games in 2002, as well as designing murals for the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
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