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Creating Colour 5 – From Screen to Print

11th June 2024 By Veronica Colvin

Mastering Colour Fidelity in Digital Media

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, Dr Les Walkling will give some pointers on lighting and displaying prints, as well as hard proofing on a local printer. 

Filed Under: Colour Society of Australia Tagged With: colour society of Australia, creating colour, Digital printing, printing, webinar

Creating Colour 4 – Dynamic Colour in Digital Art

24th February 2024 By Veronica Colvin

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.

Filed Under: Colour Society of Australia, Digital Oil Painting, Teaching Tagged With: creating colour, digital oil painting, oil painting, teaching, webinar

Creating Colour 2 – A Practical Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Painters

2nd August 2023 By Veronica Colvin

The video recording is now available on the Colour Society of Australia YouTube – NSW Division channel, and like all of the webinars from our Creating Colours series, it will remain permanently available to the public. 

Jean produced and presented a wonderful presentation discussing how oil pigments work and the challenges we face as oil painters working with them.

We had an amazing response – with registrants from 19 countries. Topics covered outlined below:

  • 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.

Filed Under: Colour Society of Australia Tagged With: creating colour, oil painting, webinar

Creating Colour 1 – Paint Making

28th June 2023 By Veronica Colvin

This webinar is the first of a new series of educational webinars, Creating Colour, intended for ambitious beginner painters through to professional artists who want a better understanding of the technical properties of their media, including both traditional and digital media. This first webinar in the series will provide 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.

Filed Under: Colour Society of Australia Tagged With: acrylics, creating colour, oil painting, webinar

Creating Colour

12th April 2023 By Veronica Colvin

I’m working with Jean Pretorius (@pretorius5040) in developing a free educational webinar series called “Creating Colour” for the Colour Society of Australia.
Aimed at ambitious beginner painters through to professional artists who want a better understanding of the technical properties of their media, including both traditional and digital media.

Launching Tuesday, 25 April – Creating Colour 1: Paint Making with Ulysses Jackson from Golden Paints. Registrations are now open to the public (international audience welcome) – Info and registration link below. Check it out, it shall be good! 

Registration – https://coloursociety.org.au/event-5235249

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Non-member registration is now open for our next free webinar, CREATING COLOUR 1: PAINT MAKING with Ulysses Jackson (Golden Artist Colors Inc., USA), Tuesday April 25 (Anzac Day) at 11.00 am AEST.

This webinar is the first of a new series of educational webinars, “Creating Colour”, aimed at ambitious beginner painters through to professional artists who want a better understanding of the technical properties of their media, including both traditional and digital media. 

This first webinar will provide 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.
Ulysses Jackson is a formulator with over 18 years coating industry experience, and recipient of a US Patent for the development of QoR® Watercolor. He is involved in a wide range of functions at Golden Artist Colors such as new product development, product Improvement and technical support. As a scientist and a professional artist, Ulysses offers unique insights into Custom Product Development for individual artists, conservators and museums. When Ulysses is not in the Lab researching coatings for Golden, he is maintaining an active studio practice furthering his passion for artist materials using Golden products. Favourite Color: Pyrrole Orange

Filed Under: Colour Society of Australia Tagged With: acrylics, creating colour, webinar

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