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In week two, instructor Bill Perkins will teach you how to achieve shape clarity and distinction. He will review the concept of dominant vs. subordinate and lecture on Notan vs. Chiaroscuro. You will watch him break down several good and bad examples of character development in film scenes. Then, you will learn how to utilize line, mass, and form to create image clarity.
In this series, instructor Bill Perkins brings you his crash course on color theory and practice. This six part series is designed to accelerate your learning curve, allowing you to gain confidence in your paintings and an overall understanding of how color works in various situations. Each lesson will focus on a different aspect of color, and will center around images of a model in different color and lighting set-ups designed by Bill himself.
In this series, instructor Bill Perkins brings you his crash course on color theory and practice. This six part series is designed to accelerate your learning curve, allowing you to gain confidence in your paintings and an overall understanding of how color works in various situations. Each lesson will focus on a different aspect of color, and will center around images of a model in different color and lighting set-ups designed by Bill himself. This fourth lesson in the series will focus on Color Temperature. Bill will begin with a brief introduction, and then it’s time to get to work: You will be shown a series of 4 different images throughout the lesson, each with a different color set-up, and you will have 30 minutes to complete a painting of each. Following each painting, you will see how Bill approaches the the same assignment, allowing you to compare your work with his. We recommend you give each painting multiple attempts, but restrict yourself each time to no more than 30 minutes per painting.
In this series, instructor Bill Perkins brings you his crash course on color theory and practice. This six part series is designed to accelerate your learning curve, allowing you to gain confidence in your paintings and an overall understanding of how color works in various situations. Each lesson will focus on a different aspect of color, and will center around images of a model in different color and lighting set-ups designed by Bill himself. This third lesson in the series will focus on complementary colors. Bill will begin with a brief introduction, and then it’s time to get to work: You will be shown a series of 4 different images throughout the lesson, each with a different color set-up, and you will have 30 minutes to complete a painting of each. Following each painting, you will see how Bill approaches the the same assignment, allowing you to compare your work with his. We recommend you give each painting multiple attempts, but restrict yourself each time to no more than 30 minutes per painting.
In this series, instructor Bill Perkins brings you his crash course on color theory and practice. This second lesson in the series will focus on saturation. Bill will begin with a brief lecture on how to identify saturation ranges within high and low key set-ups, and then it’s time to get to work: You will be shown a series of 4 different images throughout the lesson, each with a different color set-up, and you will have 30 minutes to complete a painting of each. Following each painting, you will see how Bill approaches the the same assignment, allowing you to compare your work with his.
In this series, instructor Bill Perkins brings you his crash course on color theory and practice. This six part series is designed to accelerate your learning curve, allowing you to gain confidence in your paintings and an overall understanding of how color works in various situations. Each lesson will focus on a different aspect of color, and will center around images of a model in different color and lighting set-ups designed by Bill himself. This first lesson in the series will focus on value, and how to break down various values within your paintings.
In this comprehensive lesson with instructor and color expert Bill Perkins, you will learn how to work with warm and cool colors in your paintings in a clear and easy-to-understand way.
You will learn that temperature applies not only to a color or group of colors as a whole but also is used to describe the relationship between colors. Bill will demonstrate these concepts in his usual clear and accessible style, starting off the lesson with a lecture on color temperature and a breakdown of how color temperature is used in several artists’ works
In this fourth lesson in the series instructor Bill Perkins will teach you how to work with warm and cool colors in your paintings. You will learn that temperature applies not only to a color or group of colors as a whole but also is used to describe the relationship between colors.
In this third lesson of the series, instructor Bill Perkins will teach you how to play colors with or against one another to create different effects in your paintings. Bill will demonstrate these concepts with a still life painting with heavy contrast and a wide range of light and color.
In this video lesson painter Bill will teach you how to create warm and cool tones by mixing dark and light colors together to achieve your desired results. Bill will paint three head painting demonstrations each with a different balance of hue and saturation to help you clearly analyze the use and impact of each combination in your own paintings.