Once you've completed your painting with the CMY palette, compare your painting done with CMY to the painting done with RYB. Are they more similar to each other, or different?
It's interesting to note that they're not so different from one another, even though the primaries are so different.
There is no single "best" palette; you choose your primaries based on the feeling, harmony, mood. Your choice can be based on the colors you have in your reference. After this course, you now know what that means.
Complete your painting with the RYB palette if you haven't already.
Remember to:
Complete your 3 color harmony studies from class:
When I was talking about guitars and pianos, this is what I was trying to say: Mixing with pre-made colors are easier to start and hard to master, versus mixing with primaries is harder to start but easier to master.
It's easier to harmonize colors when you have less pigments (limited palette) than if you have more pigments to work with (expanded palette).
Complete your 3 studies from class.
Other ways to harmonize colors:
Finish your color matching charts with your two sets of primary colors. Report to me what colors you were unable to match, no matter how hard you tried. We'll discuss it next week.
Here are three takeaways that you need to know:
If you want feedback on your color matching, send me a high quality photo of your color matching sheets taken in neutral light (best time is early or late afternoon in indirect sunlight) and the pigment names of the paints you used.
Finish your color charts if you haven't already. Purchase the correct pigments before next week's session - we'll need every color that's listed!
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