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Color Foundations Unit 2

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 2 -Easy Color Matching Strategy

    Now everything you learned and all the charts and mixtures you made in Unit 1 will be used to match and mix a color with My Easy Color Matching Strategy. This is where you…

                                    • Will gain the skill to observe color carefully
                                    • Acquire the Careful Color Matching Strategy to mix paint to make the color that actually matches with EASE!
                                    • Practice, Practice Practice.

    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
    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

    Easy Color Matching Strategy

    Watch:

    Ist Video…

    Lesson 2

    Easy Color Matching Strategy Applied to Objects

    Watch:

        Ist Video…

        Lesson 3

        Easy Color Matching Strategy Applied to Color Swatches

        Watch:

            Ist Video…

            2nd Video…

            3rd Video…

            Lesson 4

            BONUS Let’s Paint an Image Matching and Mixing colors

            Watch:

                Ist Video…

                Closing Remarks

                What’s Next

                Congratulations!  You have sucessfully completed  See Mix and Match Expertly FAST, Unit 2 of the Complete Color Foundations Course.

                The Easy Color Matching Strategy gets you ready to paint beautiful paintings! Unit 3 Now Let’s Make Beautiful Paintings Mixing Colors to Match Values when you change the Hue.  Enjoy the video to the left summing up what you have learned.

                 

                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

                • 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.