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Quiet or Riot: Colour Communication in Your Art

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This class on using colour is aimed at artists, but the principles are useful for designers and developers too.

Welcome to Quiet or Riot: Colour Communication in Your Art.

In this class, we’re going to take your use of colour to a new level by exploring the way colour communicates mood and message. This class assumes you have some experience in creating colour wheels and mixing basic colours, or digitally, have some previous experience with considering colour from various colour systems.

We will dive into WHY we use certain colours, WHEN to use them, and WHAT they communicate. You’ll learn to recognise basic colour psychology by looking at everything from logos, to art masterpieces, to Instagram filters, learning how their use of colour affects our understanding - and interpretation - of the image.

We’ll decipher sample palettes from photographs using online tools, and then mix watercolour swatches guided by what we discover.

In the downloadable material, I’ll give you simple sketches to use as a template for rapidly exploring different colour palettes to communicate a variety of moods.

By joining me in this class, you’ll take your understanding of colour - and its power to communicate - to a new level in your art. You’ll have the tools you need to create appropriate palettes whether quiet, riot and beyond.

Enrol now and let’s get started.

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Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Materials Needed
  • Colour Communication: Mood & Message Part 1
  • Colour Communication: Mood & Message Part 2
  • Palette Creation: Adobe Color & Adobe Capture
  • Project: Reference Palettes & Practice Sketching
  • Final Thoughts and Thank You
  • Quiet or Riot: Intro Bloopers

Taught by

Jen Dixon

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