How to: Drawing Basics
This video shows the basics of sketching a deer skull. It covers Gesture, Massing, Angle Finding (Using the "clock"), Relationships...
Mandala Redistribution (Mood Boards)
Mood boards are used to collect a group of colors from various sources that will affect the color choices of a new design/project. The...
ColorDemo part 8 : Relativity
The first theory of color, relativity states: the ground subtracts from the figure. Watch and find out what that means to you as an...
ColorDemo part 7 : Mixing a Specific Color
Fine tuning your color mixtures. Master this and you will be ahead of most students of color. Learn how to dull, tone, lighten, darken...
ColorDemo part 6 : Chromatic Dulling
Using “color” (hue) to dull color.
ColorDemo part 5 : Painting Hue, Value, Chroma
How to adjust your mixtures for each of these color terms.
ColorDemo part 4 : Basic Color Terms Defined
Hue (The quality), Value (The lightness or darkness) and Chroma (The brightness or dullness) of a color are defined.
ColorDemo part 3 : Mixing a Basic Color (Primaries/Secondaries)
Mass tone and Undertone are addressed. A clearer understanding of Primary and Secondary is established. The often misunderstood terms...
ColorDemo part 2 : Paint Handling (Basics)
All of these pigments, except the white are transparent, this makes creating a smooth patch rather challenging. In this video we learn...
ColorDemo part 1 : Setting Up (Palette and Paint)
Using Guerra’s Pigment kits, we will practice setting up a palette with the least number of pigments to achieve the greatest chromatic...
Contrast of Extension
This theory states that a larger percentage of a dark dull will feel spatially balanced if it is placed along side a smaller percentage...
Chroma expanded!
A thorough exploration of the term Chroma. Color terminology is just words that allude to extremes of a category. Chroma refers to bright...
Illusion of Transparency
Between two parent colors there are many “child” colors or mixtures. These mixture colors will create a sense of transparency in...
Harmony and Contrast Part 2
And exploration of After Image and Johannes Itten’s Contrasts of Hue, Value, Chroma, Complementary, Monochrome, Spread, Clash and...