One surefire way to build an understanding of color is to work with paints – mixing colors and exploring relationships in real time.
This class is designed to teach you how to evaluate colors you see and use, whether you work with paper or fabric. Until you have actually mixed colors together, added white, gray or black, and observed the outcome, color terminology remains a set of terms that can be intimidating and confusing!
The good news is that anyone can learn to look at a color and mix a perfect match. It’s an invaluable skill for every artist, no matter what medium you prefer. Mixing color using French knots is not very different from mixing color with paints from a tube. It’s all about understanding hue, value and the brightness or dullness of a color, which we refer to as intensity – and using the information guide the colors you combine.
