Welcome Judith Reidy Creative Zone – Fine Art Mastery
Bridging Traditional and Impressionist Painting Techniques
From Fundamentals with Expression to Mastery
Color Foundations Unit 3
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”
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- 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
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Unit 2 – Lessons
“ See Mix and Match Expertly FAST”
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- 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
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Unit 3 – Lessons
Now Let’s Make Beautiful Paintings
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- Les 1 – Mix Color for the Blue Iris
- Les 2 – Blue Iris
- Les 3 – Pink Lily
- Les 4 – Lily with Deeper Reds
- Les 5 – Yellow and Reddish Iris
- Les 6 – Conclusion – What’s Next?
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Benefits
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- 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
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Unit 3 –Now Let’s Make Beautiful Painting
Now that you have learned the essential tricks of Color Theory in Unit1 and Practiced Matching Colors in Unit 2 you are ready to make beautiful paintings with me in Unit 3!
We will be mixing colors to match colors to make beautiful paintings in Unit 3.
BUT we will ALSO BE Mixing Color to Match VALUES, a Key Skill for an artist. If you can CHANGE THE HUE and keep your values spot on, you can change the mood and be TOTALLY MORE EXPRESSIVE in your painting.
Unit 3 – Lessons
Now Let’s Make Beautiful Paintings
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- Les 1 – Mix Color for the Blue Iris
- Les 2 – Blue Iris
- Les 3 – Pink Lily
- Les 4 – Lily with Deeper Reds
- Les 5 – Yellow and Reddish Iris
- Les 6 – Conclusion – What’s Next?
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Benefits
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- 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
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Lesson 1
Mix Color for the Blue Iris
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Ist Video… Intro & Materials
2nd Video…
Lesson 2
Blue Iris
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Lesson 3
Pink Lily
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Ist Video…
Lesson 4
Lily with Deeper Reds
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Ist Video…
Lesson 5
Yellow and Reddish Iris
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Ist Video…
Lesson 6
Yellow Iris with Redish Fringe
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Lesson 7
Yellow Lily
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Ist Video…
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Closing Remarks
What’s Next
Congratulations! You have sucessfully completed ithe Complete Color Foundations Course.
Intermediate Color Principles …
- 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
- 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.
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.