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Course overview

In this informational course students will be introduced to a new approach to understanding the nature of light, how color is perceived and how to evaluate color relationships. With a better understanding of the color wheel, learn how to identify the different temperatures of color from the coolest cool to the warmest warm and neutral colors. Discover how color changes as light passes across a form using different lighting scenarios. Finally, learn how to put into practice these concepts by creating convincing objects in space with an imagined light source.

  • Learn how the eye perceives color in the visible light spectrum

  • Take an in depth look at the color wheel to better understand color temperature

  • Understand color relationships with a warm-cool palette

  • Evaluate the difference between direct and indirect lighting

  • Practice creating believable objects under imaginary light

Course curriculum

    1. Student Orientation Video

    2. Join your community!

    3. Introduction

    1. Color Theory

    1. Color Temperature

    2. Examples in Art History

    1. Practicing Light Effects

    1. Putting it into Practice

About this course

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

Meet Your Instructor

Jean-Pierre Roy

Instructor

Born in Santa Monica, California in 1974, Jean-Pierre Roy is a Brooklyn- based painter and teacher. He received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2002. He is currently represented by Gallery Poulsen, DK and Davidson Gallery in NYC. Roy has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Asia and has had solo museum exhibitions at the Torrence Art Museum in Los Angeles and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach. His work has been written about in The New York Times, The New York Post, ArtNews, Art in America, New American Painters, The Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, The Seattle Stranger, The Wall Street Journal, Hi- Fructose, and Juxtapoz amongst others. His work is in collections of Anita Zabludowicz, Jerry-Ann Cheney, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jean Pigozzi, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bjorn Borg amongst others.

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