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Course curriculum

    1. Student Orientation Video

    2. Join your community!

    3. Materials

    4. Vocabulary

    1. The History of Impressionism

    2. Color Theory

    3. Painting a Color Wheel

About this course

  • $79.99
  • 7 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

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Course overview

In this course, Leda Brittenham introduces color theory through the history and working methods of the Impressionists. Beginning with art historical context, she explains how artists like Monet and his peers transformed painting through close observation, relative color, and dynamic shadow mixing. The lessons then move into essential vocabulary, hue, value, saturation, temperature, complements and analogous color before applying these ideas in practice through a painted color wheel. By the end students will better understand how color relationships function in painting and how to mix more subtle, vibrant and expressive shadows for finished work.

  • Learn color through Impressionism

  • Understand hue, value, saturation

  • Explore complementary color relationships

  • Mix dynamic chromatic shadow colors

  • Paint a practical color wheel

  • Strengthen observation through color

Instructor

Leda Brittenham

Instructor

Leda Brittenham grew up in upstate New York. She attended SUNY Plattsburgh where she studied Painting and Sculpture and French. In 2014, she spent 4 months painting in the South of France at the Marchutz School where she studied Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. In 2019 she graduated with her MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art. She has taught at the New York Art Studio and City College. Brittenham has shown her work throughout New York City and is preparing for an upcoming solo show at Frostburg University in Maryland. She lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens.

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