Series 30: APPLYING COLOR SCHEMES
Using Tertiary Triads – S30L2 Download
This lesson is S30L2, Using Tertiary Triads of the APPLYING COLOR SCHEMES Series. Using as her reference the creek bank from Lesson 1, Dianne shows how we can give a new color interpretation by using a tertiary triad scheme. She retains the value structure and reinterprets the local hues with mixtures from the major tertiary triad, yellow orange, red violet and blue green.
When French Impressionist Claude Monet did multiple studies of a single scene, he was interpreting rather than describing what he saw. Often to enhance his impressions, he would transpose the local color into a color scheme. A color scheme is a limited set of colors with a relationship found on the color wheel. Like Monet, these four lessons each use a different color interpretations for the same scene.
Rather than becoming refined paintings, all these lessons are studies, each showing a different approach for using color schemes. Dianne’s approach to teaching is to show you ways to think about making choices and decisions so that you can work these into your own unique approach to painting.
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