I would first like to say, way to go on the 2 color paintings so many of you did last week. They look amazing and I hope you are learning how to look for values and colors when designing your paintings.
This week we will work with 3 colors, which are known as a triad color scheme. I have gone online to read and listen to a bunch of artists talk about how they use the triad color scheme and I myself was going to make a video about triad colors but with my limited schedule, I decided I would show you a video that I found online that I thought was very good. See the video below.
I hope many of you have a color wheel to choose colors from but if you don't you can always paint one just so you can see how the colors are organized on the wheel.
When you watch the video below you will come to realize that are so many combinations of colors that you can use and if you choose 3 primary colors it's actually like using full color because of how many colors you can make from 3 primaries. As you're watching the video and you see a color combination that you like, keep that combination in your memory so you can test out those 3 colors for your 3 color painting.
Test out the 3 colors on a scrap sheet of paper by dabbing them close together around each other in a circle, rectangle or a square and let them bleed together to see how they mix with each other. see below examples.
The photo that we will be using for this week's paint-a-long I made black and white so you can see the values, and work your 3 colors into those values. Can't wait to see what you come up with!
Thanks
