Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings
Color Studies
A course by Don Kilpatrick III , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Color Studies
Overview
“To conclude this unit, you will create a variety of value drawings and choose your color scheme for the course project. This process will ensure that your final composition is harmonized in terms of lines, color, shade, and light. To guide you, I will use the two color palettes I created in the previous lesson to develop color studies for my own project. The aim of this step is to pinpoint which color dynamics you want to use. ”
In this video lesson Don Kilpatrick III addresses the topic: Color Studies, 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 Studies In this lesson, I'll create two color studies based on the two color palettes that I created, so I can decide which one I want to use for my final project. Much like the thumbnail sketches, I'll create these really small, they'd look almost abstract to the casual viewer but they will help me understand which color dynamics I want to use for my final project. When I start a painting, be it a thumbnail sketch, a color study, or a finished painting, I always like to start with the largest shapes within the composition. This helps create a sense of color harmony, shape design ha...”
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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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