Saturday, September 1, 2018

Color Studies- great warm-ups!

Pick ONLY 3 colors and write them on the back of your 5" x 7" watercolor paper.  This Color Study started by making 3 shapes and painting each shape a different color.



Draw 3 shapes that don’t overlap.  You should have 4 areas now.  Choose 3 colors.  Leave one of the shapes white and color each of the others a separate color. Leave a tiny border between the colors so they won’t bleed into each other.  Repeat this process until you get lots of different layers and colors created by overlapping colors.  I add black at the very end to "lace" the viewer's eye through the painting.  I do these instead of color graphs.  So much more fun!  
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5 comments:

  1. Mellowood GallerySeptember 1, 2018 at 4:53 PM

    It is hard to believe that you only used three colours for this. A super exercise that I will be trying soon. thanks for sharing.

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  2. Fay TerrySeptember 2, 2018 at 4:27 AM

    Karen, this is a great idea. I am going to try it with my watercolors which I’ve not used in a while. Thanks for the plan.

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  3. UnknownSeptember 2, 2018 at 4:28 AM

    I love this and tried it with my very old watercolours. Now to have another go.

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  4. Chris LallySeptember 2, 2018 at 5:41 AM

    What a great lesson. I will try this very soon.
    Thank you!

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  5. Wild about PaintingSeptember 2, 2018 at 9:19 AM

    Thanks! It’s great to be back blogging again! This is one of my favorite warm up exercises. I even found out that sap green was a great glazer in one of my studies!

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