Color Theory & Paint Application

Understand how color works as both physical phenomenon and visual communication tool. Learn color mixing fundamentals using limited palettes, understand warm and cool relationships, and practice achieving specific colors through systematic mixing. Master different paint application techniques including brush control, texture creation, and surface preparation. Explore transparent and opaque applications, wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques, and how different tools create different marks and textures. Practice color temperature, value relationships, and how color choices affect emotional response and visual hierarchy in both artistic and technical applications.