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The first theory of color, relativity states: the ground subtracts from the figure. Watch and find out what that means to you as an...

Fine tuning your color mixtures. Master this and you will be ahead of most students of color. Learn how to dull, tone, lighten, darken...

Using “color” (hue) to dull color.

How to adjust your mixtures for each of these color terms.

Hue (The quality), Value (The lightness or darkness) and Chroma (The brightness or dullness) of a color are defined.

Mass tone and Undertone are addressed. A clearer understanding of Primary and Secondary is established. The often misunderstood terms...

All of these pigments, except the white are transparent, this makes creating a smooth patch rather challenging. In this video we learn...

Using Guerra’s Pigment kits, we will practice setting up a palette with the least number of pigments to achieve the greatest chromatic...

This theory states that a larger percentage of a dark dull will feel spatially balanced if it is placed along side a smaller percentage...

A thorough exploration of the term Chroma. Color terminology is just words that allude to extremes of a category. Chroma refers to bright...

Between two parent colors there are many “child” colors or mixtures. These mixture colors will create a sense of transparency in...

And exploration of After Image and Johannes Itten’s Contrasts of Hue, Value, Chroma, Complementary, Monochrome, Spread, Clash and...

Exploring Monochrome, Analogous, Complementary, Cross Complementary, Dyad, Triad, Tetrad, Hexads, Split Complement.

Josef Albers Relativity exercises. Three Colors appear like four. Reversed Grounds (Three colors appear like two….sort of…). Four Colors...