Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings
Color Relativity
A course by Don Kilpatrick III , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Color Relativity
Overview
“Colors in the natural world interact and relate to each other in different ways. In this lesson, I will explain this further, touching on how lighting conditions also come into play. After, I will explain the concept of local color—which is the color that we understand an object to be—and discuss how, more often than not, the color that is used to paint with is almost always different. ”
In this video lesson Don Kilpatrick III addresses the topic: Color Relativity , 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
“ Color Relativity In this lesson, I'll discuss and demonstrate color relativity to you. Remember, color is not set in stone. In one environment, it might appear bright against a dark environment, and in another one, it will look gray and neutral. Color is ever-changing and your perception of it changes as well. Now, I'll demonstrate this concept of color relativity by mixing swatches of color next to each other so that you can see how color relates and plays off of each other. I'll demonstrate this color relativity theory here with a couple of swatches of paint. First of all, I'll mix fles...”
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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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