Color: Color Drawing Projects Episode 30 of How to Draw
The Great Courses
Choose palettes of pastels for your own drawings. Do a series of projects, using a specific color palette to create mood, a visual hierarchy, and the illusion of space, volume, and light. Explore how a seemingly white wall is not white at all, but actually a range of colors. This is because an object's nominal color mixes with the color of the light source and the reflected color of other objects in the environment.
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31 mins
Year
2015
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1198504
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