I’m the co-creater and co-producer of Creating Colour, a series of educational webinars intended for ambitious beginner painters through to professional artists who want a better understanding of the properties of their media, including both traditional and digital media. Episodes will be posted below once they are presented.
Creating Colour webinars are created for the Colour Society of Australia (CSA), a not-for-profit organisation formed in Australia whose members share an interest in colour.
From 2022 to 2024, I was part of CSA’s National Executive Team and Editor of the Society’s eNewsletter – Spectrum.
You can also view the Creating Colour series and other videos on the CSA YouTube page.
Creating Colour 1
Paint Making, with Ulysses Jackson (Golden Artist Colors Inc., USA)
This first webinar in the series provides a general introduction to the pigments and binders used in paint making across many categories of paint, and how the ingredients of any given paint affect the properties of that paint and therefore the ways in which artists can use them.
Creating Colour 2
A Practical Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Painters (Dr Jean Pretorius)
In this second instalment, Jean Pretorius addressed a number of practical issues painters encounter when creating colour.
- Deciphering labelling on paint tubes (pigment codes, ‘Permanence’, ‘Opacity’, additives)
- Colour spaces and basic language for talking about paints, their colours and handling: Munsell, NCS, hue, value, chroma, saturation; rheology
- Single paints: (Paint is not the same as Colour!) Mass tone, undertone.
- Two-paint mixing: “tints”, “shades”, “tones”, combinations of chromatic paints, pitfalls and opportunities when using complementaries to reduce chroma. High and low-chroma mixing curves.
- Three-paint mixing; how to produce all possible hues. Triples that give “good”/high chroma hue circles. Beginning to think about palettes.
- Palettes: issues to consider when constructing and evaluating your own palette. (This talk will be “palette agnostic”
- No particular palette is being presented as being the best, rather tools are provided for painters to think about the palette that best suits their needs and skills at the time.)
- Basic colour matching.
Creating Colour 3
Dyes Ancient and Modern (Dr Mark Liu)
In this third webinar in our Creating Colour series, Dr Mark Liu examined the many different strategies to embed colour into fabric, from pigments that bind to the surface of the textile, dyes that embed themselves in the fabric or materials created with surface structures that have optical properties.
Creating Colour 4
Dynamic Colour in Digital Art (Steve Forster)
In this webinar Steve Forster gives us a taste of his digital creative process, in particular the way he approaches and creates diversity in colours and colour palettes. Starting with a brief overview of differences – and similarities – between the digital and traditional painting processes, he shows how he structures digital palettes when painting portraits, landscapes and more abstract themes. This is followed by a “wild colour” illustration where, building on a value structure (in the sense of Munsell), he goes on to use the full range of colour expression that digital tools provide.
Creating Colour 5
From Screen to PrintFrom Screen to Print: Mastering Colour Fidelity in Digital Media ( Dr Les Walkling)
This webinar introduces the five domains of digital printmaking from the perspective of colour reproduction and colour fidelity across topics including monitor calibration, the preparation of digital images for print, selection of print media, colour management, and metamerism. Finally, Les will give some pointers on lighting and displaying prints, as well as hard proofing on a local printer.
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Recommended Links (Courtesy of The Colour Society of NSW)
Pigment Colour Index
https://justpaint.org/sorry-wrong-umber-part-i/ (Sarah Sands)
https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2021…(Evie Hatch)
https://www.artiscreation.com/ (David Myers)
Lightfastness
https://www.naturalpigments.com/artis… (George O’Hanlon)
http://www.iscc-archive.org/Munsell20… (Sarah Sands)
Colour attributes and spaces including Munsell and CIE L*a*b*
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/011.php (David Briggs)
https://sites.google.com/site/djcbrig… (David Briggs)
Basic paths of paint mixtures in colour space
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/063.php (David Briggs)
ICD 2023 Controlled Palettes in Painting
ICD 2023 – Controlled Palettes in Painting – PAGE
“Frank J. Reilly and the Controlled Palette” with Tristan Elwell (forerunner of the basic colour matching procedure demonstrated by Jean) and “Controlling Colour: Historical Background” with David Briggs (background of Munsell system)