Painting Color Charts

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Painting Color Charts

March 14, 2013 by kellywalkerstudios

In our adult art classes students paint whatever subject matter they prefer. That way they get to learn while painting something they would like to have. But ever so often I ask them to do a lesson in color. Yesterday we painted a color chart. Here is Pat working on her chart. This exercise has a painter list the colors they use most (about 10 of them) across the top and down the left edge of a chart paper or canvas and then one by one you mix the two corresponding colors together and put it on the chart. This will give the painter practice in color mixing and when the chart is complete it provides a useful reference to keep handy when you need to find a particular color. It is a little tedious to make a chart but worth it for what you can learn from doing it.