Creation of Color Palettes with Watercolor

Ana Victoria starts the course by introducing herself, showing you some of her work, and sharing her sources of inspiration.

Discover all about the final course project: the creation of a color palettes using watercolors from a basic photograph. Also take a closer look at all the necessary materials.

Then review basic color theory, focusing on watercolor as the medium, and learn the fundamentals.

Explore the color wheel through a series of practical exercises seeing how important temperature is in a composition and how to achieve harmony and contrast. Take a look at the tones you can achieve by using complementary colors as well as how to turn one complementary color into another.

Next, start to develop your color palette based on your personal artistic identity. Dive in with a mood board of reference materials taken from your research. See examples of Ana Victoria's personal process when developing the palette for each of her pieces and hear some additional tips and tricks. Now it's time to build up some test color palettes.

For your final project, do two illustrations: two versions of a complete work. In the first, extract a color palette using your knowledge of mixing and color theory to recreate a technical palette from a nature photograph. In the second, create a color palette drawing on your own artistic sensibility.