Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings
Value Grouping and Limited Color Palettes
A course by Don Kilpatrick III , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Value Grouping and Limited Color Palettes
Overview
“This lesson will cover value grouping, color relativity, and limited color palettes. I will share with you how to create a variety of moods for your paintings by utilizing limited color palettes. To assist you, you will learn how to create a color key for your piece. I will explore this process in more detail by demonstrating two different color palettes in order to highlight how each color scheme can convey various feelings or moods. ”
In this video lesson Don Kilpatrick III addresses the topic: Value Grouping and Limited Color Palettes, 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
“ Value Grouping and Limited Color Palettes In this lesson, I'll discuss value grouping and how you can choose a limited color palette for your final project. In my thumbnails, I've tried to convey a sense of three to five values by blocking in various shapes or using line to create a halftone to create a middle value. What I try to do now is incorporate the concept of Nōtan into my thumbnails. Nōtan is a Japanese word that means light/dark or what it's specifically referring to is the balance of dark and light shapes within a composition. When you look at the thumbnail here, you'll see tha...”
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Course summary for: Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings
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Areas
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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