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Course curriculum

    1. Student Orientation Video

    2. Join your community!

    3. Materials

    4. Vocabulary

    1. Maximizing the Color Palette

    2. Exploring Atmospheric Perspective

    3. Perceived Color

    4. Putting Theory Into Practice

About this course

  • $79.99
  • 8 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

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Course overview

This course explores color theory through historical, scientific, and practical lenses. Students examine traditional and modern color systems—including the Munsell model—and learn how hue, saturation, and value operate in three-dimensional color space. Through scientific principles like light wavelength and Rayleigh scattering, the course explains phenomena such as warm light/cool shadows and atmospheric perspective. Students also learn how pigments behave in practice, how to build a palette that can reach high saturation across the hue circle, and how lighting and environment influence perceived color. Exercises include color sampling and palette-building using the double primary system to support landscape painting.

  • History of color systems

  • Munsell model and hue shifts

  • Light behavior through atmosphere

  • Atmospheric perspective in painting

  • Building a full-spectrum palette

  • Local vs perceived color

Instructor

Elody Gyekis

Instructor

Elody Gyekis is a painter, animator, and sculptor who uses visual storytelling to reinvent traditional gender roles. Elody earned her MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art in 2019 and her BFA in Painting and Ceramics from Penn State University in 2009. Her paintings have been exhibited in many solo and group shows in Pennsylvania and New York, and also across the USA, Central America, and Europe. She completed artist residencies in Sibiu, Romania in 2014, and Giverny, France in 2018. Elody has taught painting workshops in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Honduras, and Costa Rica. In addition to her fine art, she has been a community arts organizer of murals and other public art projects in Pennsylvania and beyond. Elody splits her time between living in Pennsylvania, Central America, and Brooklyn.

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