Acrylic Beginner Series Volume 1: Color Wheel

Understand the basic function of a color wheel so that you know how to use it for successful paintings.

Jerry Yarnell | Runtime (9 min)

Understand the basic function of a color wheel so that you know how to use it for successful paintings.

Acrylics

  • Cadmium Yellow Light
  • Cadmium Orange
  • Cadmium Red Light
  • Hooker’s Green
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Burnt Umber
  • Turquoise Deep
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Dioxazine Purple
  • Vivid Lime Green (Phthalo Yellow Green)
  • Alizarin Crimson

Surfaces

  • Stretched canvas (medium-textured cotton, pre-primed)
  • Canvas boards

Brushes

  • Long Bristle: nos. 10, 12, 6, 4
  • Hake: 2-inch
  • Sable: round no. 4, flat no. 4, script no. 4

Others

  • Brush soap
  • Color wheel
  • Conte pencil (white)
  • Gesso (white)
  • Palette paper
  • Palette box
  • Palette knife
  • Palette sponge
  • Paper towels
  • Sandpaper (fine-grit sandpaper pad)
  • Spray bottle
  • Water container
  • Vine charcoal (soft, thin)

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  Rebecca  7/9/2019


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  KATHRYN  4/21/2019
good fundamentals of color


  Helen  3/26/2019
good


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  Susann  2/8/2019
Good


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I like


  Randy  11/26/2018
beginning to understand


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I shell watch him everyday.


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  Charles  11/1/2017
Well demonstrated and communicated.


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  Javier  10/2/2017
Very good


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  Dolores  6/18/2017
very helpful


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  Stacie  5/17/2017
Abolsutely excellent teacher!!!! He explains soooo well!!!!


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  Lucy  12/28/2016
Helpful!


  Soraida  12/14/2016


  Jim  12/2/2016
Excellent explanations of why we use a color wheel as an aide in finding complementary colors for our highlights in paintings.


  Edwina  11/30/2016
good


  Chris  11/20/2016
I will definitelu use colourwheel now i understand it better tks:)


  Mary Lou  11/17/2016


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  Liz  10/1/2016
Very valuable information - sure opened my eyes to how colour is applied - thanks


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  Bruno  9/16/2016
excellent


  Foster  12/17/2014
learned some new info


  Marian  4/19/2014
I liked this as a quick 'snippet' on color wheels. I'll be looking for more info.


  Heather  2/5/2014
Useful pointers here, such as using complements for highlights



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