Improve Your Paintings with Color and Value

Unleash the Power of Light & Color in Your Art!

Ready to transform your sketches and paintings? This course will guide you through techniques to create artwork with impact, using brilliant light, dramatic shadows, and vivid color. We'll start with a foundational understanding of value, exploring the power of a single color to create depth and emotion.

• Mastering Value: We'll delve into the benefits of painting with just one color, using a value scale to accurately identify and render light and dark. Learn how to paint seamlessly from dark to light in both sepia ink and watercolor. Discover how to control edges – softening or sharpening them – to enhance your artwork.
• Sepia Techniques: Follow along as I demonstrate classic sepia painting techniques, inspired by the old masters. We'll begin with a simple fruit study and then tackle a captivating Italian village scene. You'll learn to add finishing details and adjust values to make your paintings truly pop. These techniques are easily adaptable to full-color paintings and sketching on location.
• Portable & Versatile Tools: I'll be demonstrating using the wonderfully portable and affordable Pentel Color Brush Pen in sepia, but you can adapt these techniques to ink or watercolor – I’ll show you how!

Then, prepare for a fresh exploration of color!

Forget everything you think you know about the color wheel. We'll move beyond the traditional red, yellow, and blue to uncover a deeper understanding of how visible light spectrum truly works.

• Beyond the Color Wheel: Discover a revolutionary, yet often overlooked, version of the color wheel – a concept developed over a century ago that's still incredibly relevant for artists.
• Innovative Color Mixing: Explore new and exciting ways to mix colors and build your own unique palette. While I'll demonstrate using watercolor, these principles apply to any medium, including gouache, acrylic, or oil paints.

Whether you're a beginner artist or an experienced creator looking to refine your approach, this course will help you master the fundamental concepts of light and color and elevate your artwork to the next level. Learn to confidently manipulate values, understand color theory, and bring your artistic vision to life!