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Color Foundations 1/4

This Complete Elementary color course, Color Foundations, offers essential simple principles (tricks) that guide color selection in nearly every color mixing situation, providing the foundation for skillfully mixing colors and matching values.

     Unit 1 – Lessons

     “7 Essential Simple Tricks to Mix Color”

        • Les 1 -Overview and Materials
        • Les 2 – Color Wheel Hues, Temperature
        • Les 3 – Color Value – Tints, Tones and Shades
        • Les 4 – Saturation,  Luminosity and Intensity

    Unit 2 – Lessons

    See Mix and Match Expertly FAST”

        • Les 1 – Easy Color Matching Strategy
        • Les 2 – Easy Color Matching Strategy Applied to Objects
        • Les 3 – Easy Color Matching Strategy Applied to Color Swatches
        • Les 4 – BONUS Let’s Paint an Image Matching and Mixing colors

    Unit 3 – Lessons

    Now Let’s Make Beautiful Paintings

        • Les 1 –  Mix Color for the Blue Iris
        • Les 2 – Blue Iris
        • Les 3 – Pink Lily 
        • Les 4 – Reddish and Yellow Iris
        • Les 5 – Yellow and Reddish Iris
        • Les 6  – Conclusion – What’s Next?

    Benefits

        • Waste Less costly paint
        • Mix colors accurately with My Easy Color Mixing Strategy 
        • With a limited number of hues make an almost unlimited number of SPOT ON colors
        • Paint beautiful flowers

    Unit 1 – 7 Essential Simple Tricks to Mix Color

    …is the first unit in the Color Foundations Course.  It  provides the essential understanding of Color theory and as such is the basic unit in the full Color Foundations course. 

      Lessons

          • Les 1 – Materials
          • Les 2 – Color Wheel Hues, Temperature
          • Les 3 – Color Value – Tints, Tones and Shades
          • Les 4 – Saturation,  Luminosity and Intensity
      7 Essential Cover Page for Rescourse Guide

      Benefits

          • Waste Less costly paint
          • Mix colors accurately with My Easy Color Mixing Strategy 
          • With a limited number of hues make an almost unlimited number of SPOT ON colors

      Lesson 1

      Overview and Material

      Watch:

      Ist Video…

      2nd Video…

      Lesson 2

      Color Wheel, Hues and Temperature

      Watch:

          Ist Video…

          2nd Video…

          Lesson 3

          Changing Color Value with Tints, Tones and Shades

          Watch:

              Ist Video…

              2nd Video…

              Lesson 4

              Saturation, Luminosity and Intensity

              Watch:

                  Ist Video…

                  2nd Video…

                  Closing Remarks

                  What’s Next

                      Congratulations!  You have sucessfully completed  in 7 Essential Simple Color Tricks Unit 1 of the Complete Color Foundations Course.

                      UNITS 2  and 3 of Color Foundation course…

                      • extends your Color Mixing Skils
                      • follows a fun and effective working strategy to mix and adjust a color
                      • leads to precise  MATCHING Color &/or Value.
                      • choose to review or not review UNIT 1 topics

                      Color Foundations Unit 3  Floral

                      • Go to  UNIT 2  Fast Color Mixing Skill Masterclass with My Easy Color Matching Strategy  (UNIT 2: Lessons 1, 2, 3, &  4 with 8 videos and close to 4 hours) 
                      • In UNIT 3 Paint beautiful flowers, primarily practice changing the hue but match the value 
                      • All units have individual practice session) as you follow along with me step by step.

                       “ See Mix and Match Expertly FAST”

                      This color Theory Unit from the Color Foundations course is the essential beginning for color work.  Color Foundations includes two more UNITS, 2 & 3, that provides strategies, pitfalls and key questions to ask to not only help practice mixing a color but to more precisely match a color and  even match a value when you change the hue. In the final unit we mix beautiful flowers.