Use the color cards in this kit as an optional tool as you create. Fill it up with favorite color blends as you work ORY through the workshop (and notes on OLOR ST TE A C how to achieve them again), or pre-plan A color mixing guide. CREA your color story with colors you practice in advance and love. The best way to design beautiful A quick intro to figuring out colors. color schemes is to play! I’m so excited and glad that you’ve decided to paint with me in this workshop. I really hope the information in this booklet is helpful. Don’t be afraid to outsource for further information, Pinterest is a great tool for color schemes, and you can find just about everything else on Google. Enjoy yourself and have fun! THE THE CRAFTER’S CRAFTER’S BOX BOX Mixing paint doesn’t have to be hard! Let’s be honest, mixing colors seems so complicated. I hear that all the time. And anyone who has tried their hand at blending colors and has ended up with several different shades of brown by accident knows what I’m saying. I’m hoping this guide will help walk you though this workshop and also give you the confidence to blend many different shades of brown on purpose. I should also mention that while I feel very knowledgeable about color theory in the application I use it, I’m not actually a master. If this guide isn’t helpful or is conflicting to your college level color theory course, feel free to gently place this in the trash. Line drawings. Primaries (and beyond). To inspire your landscape start, here are the three line drawings for each sample canvas. Use these verbatim or explore! Without getting too deep into color theory, we have provided you “modified primary colors”. Primary colors being red, yellow, and blue. These colors are unable to be mixed into existence by any other color. You can make green by mixing yellow and blue together but there isn’t a way to mix any two colors together to make yellow. That is why they are special. Yellow Blue Red As long as you have red, yellow, and blue you should technically be able to create all of the colors you want. With the addition of white and black your options really become endless. What bright, beautiful colors! Up next, let’s discuss more natural versions of your primaries and how to create favorite color blends so you can start to experiment. In your kit you will find an earthy red, deep yellow, and blueish In your kit we’ve also provided two different greens, a white, gray. These colors will take the place of the typical original and a brown to help move beyond primary colors: primary colors. Your new color wheel looks like this: Sap Green (blue tinted green) Yellow Yellow Green (yellow tinted green) Oxide/Ochre White Burnt Umber (use to deepen/darken colors) All of the colors in your kit can be combined to make even more blends. This will take a bit of practice on your end but trust your intuition and your gut. If you want to make a deep blue green, use Sap Green and Paynes Gray together. If you want to make a lime green add Yellow Green, Yellow Ochre, and White together! Practice and don’t be afraid to try! Have fun with the process. Sap Green + Yellow Green + Burnt Umber + Panyes Gray + Yellow Ochre + Red Oxide + White White White Panyes Red Gray Oxide/Ochre In the small circles between the primary colors you can see what it looks like as you mix these colors together. Feel free to take some time to play around with these three colors, you can also use these colors to design the beginning of a color story for your paintings using the color palette cards in your kit. A tip: use white to make colors appear brighter! Ochre & Oxide Raw Umber & Burnt Umber Ochre is a naturally occurring pigment derived from iron found Raw Umber is a cool brown ochre pigment originally in clay and sand. These tones impart a beautiful warm, earthy gathered from in Umbria, Italy. It is a dark brown quality and are often favored by figure painters and landscape but highly praised for its greenish tinge and grey artists. Oxides are synthetic pigments derived from natural undertone. Burnt Umber is Raw Umber that has been elements. They are appreciated for their pure, strong tones, Exploring heated to the point of dehydrating the natural iron high opacity, and concentration. Many artists find oxide tones pigment terms into hematite, leaving a richer, warmer hue. more reliable and less subject to natural variations..