Learning Colour Theory with Maxwell Stone (Part 1 - Limited Colour Palette)

Ever wanted to brush up on your use of colour in drawing? Really get into the nitty gritty of how to render skin, light, dark and mid tones. Well.. you’re in luck, we’re super excited to announce our first ever guest tutor, the incredible Maxwell Stone who will be teaching the first class based around “Colour Theory using chalk pastel”.

Maxwell has drawn with us quite a number of times and we have always been in awe of his work. 

The lecture is split into a 20 minute presentation and a 15 minute discussion that will occur later in the class. The discussion will help artists express anything they may be having trouble with and will allow time for Maxwell to demo a draw over of students' work.

Here is the breakdown:

* 10 min. Warm up


* 20 min. Lecture


* 30 min. Draw


* 30 min. Discussion
 and feedback on drawings

This will be the first class, hopefully in a set of classes, in learning color theory with chalk pastel (although you are more than welcome to use whatever you wish also)

In this session, you will learn how to render a figure using a limited color palette consisting of black, cadmium red, yellow ochre, light blue, and white. The medium will be chalk pastel.

Instructor materials:

•Shammy/Paper towel

•Conte 1710 charcoal pencil

•NU chalk pastels

•Kneaded Eraser

•Charcoal Pencil

•Paper with some tooth (recommended brand is "Strathmore")

What you should bring:

The recommended materials would be a medium hardness chalk pastel. The recommended brand would be Prismacolors NU pastels. Again, these are just recommendations, you are more than welcome to use whatever medium you wish to suit your preferences

Objectives:

An introduction to color theory using a limited color palette.

Blocking in gestures using base colors.

Dark to light values using cool and warm colors.

Using values and colors to render long poses.

The session begins with a 5 minute meet and greet, before segueing into 1-10 minute poses in the first half, and then three 15 minute poses in the second half. You’ll also be able to see all the amazing work from the other international artists during the break.  (Streaming only) 

Teacher: @maxwell_stoneart

Financial Transparency: 50% of profits go towards the model as they would in the live sessions.

House Rules: Recording and taking screenshots of the screen is FORBIDDEN, please do not do this out of respect for the model, thank you.