After going over the basic info about materials [brushes, substrate, paints, mediums], the class tried to take their primary colors [red, yellow & blue] to mix the secondaries orange, green and purple]. this seems like an easy task but... depending on the brand of paint the pigment colors vary greatly and it became apparent to some that it was very difficult to mix a correct secondary. We also played with tints [adding white] and tones [adding black or gray] before starting a dune scene.
We started with coating the canvas, paper, etc with an even basic coat to fill in the texture of the paper or canvas.
The sky and sand we very opaque coating. Here the colors are blocked and a few glazes have been applied to the base colors.
Keep arting and don't listen to that critc on your shoulder telling you to forget art!
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