COLOUR & PERCEPTION

(Online and in-person delivery)
5 x 2.5 hour sessions

UP TO 12 PEOPLE

Over four sessions this course provides a thorough experience of colour as a phenomenon and a silent communicator of meaning. The course demystifies the way colour works and explains simple to complex colour behaviour in engaging and practical exercises.

Course content

Working with designer’s gouache the first classes give a comprehensive hands-on knowledge of:

• Accurate colour mixing, classification and matching
• Colour families and sub-groups of the colour wheel to include complementary greys, earth coloured neutrals, colour triads, analogous colour, found colour, dominant and subordinate colour
• Colour tints and tones
• Opacity, transparency, and staining

We will move on to study colour behaviour, and begin simple spatial improvisations with pre-mixed colour, looking at the three variants of hue, saturation, and value.Following on from this will be short exercises that use the associational and emotional content of colour to communicate an idea.As context we will look at historical examples of colour studies by Josef Albers, Black Mountain College, Pentagram and contemporary artists and designers. You will complete the course with a sketchbook of studies, paintings and practical colour notes.

Please note attendees will be responsible for the purchase of their painting materials. List available on registration.

Course Tutor
Trevor Flynn is Director of Drawing At Work. Founder of the Drawing Gym, he is a visiting lecturer at the Design Museum, The Architectural Association, Bath University and the Institution of Structural Engineers in London. He has illustrated a best-selling cookbook and a book by Richard Curtis about the making of the film Notting Hill.