Color Mixing
Learn what your paints can do and create a useful library of new mixtures.
A Self-Paced Color Theory Art Course
Color Explorations
Discover how color works through playful exercises, painted papers, creative experiments, and an art journal filled with combinations that feel completely your own.
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Beginner-friendly • Self-paced video lessons •
Creative color exercises • Unlimited access
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Color theory made creative, useful, and fun
Watch the course preview to see how we explore color through paint mixing, art journal exercises, color schemes, contrast, and plenty of hands-on experimentation.
Learn by making
Color theory does not need to feel technical or intimidating.
Color Explorations teaches you the principles of color through simple creative exercises that invite you to mix, paint, arrange, compare, and notice what happens.
Instead of memorizing a list of rules, you will build an intuitive understanding of color—one painted swatch, color wheel, art project, and playful experiment at a time.
Understand Color
Learn value, temperature, chroma, contrast, neutrals, and color relationships in a clear, approachable way.
Experiment Freely
Mix paint, build color wheels, test combinations, and learn to recognize why certain palettes work.
Discover Your Palette
Notice the colors and combinations you return to again and again as your own signature palette begins to emerge.
More than a color wheel
Learn to see color in a completely new way.
You will begin with the foundations, but this course quickly moves beyond basic definitions. We use those ideas to make art, solve color problems, and understand why some combinations feel energetic, quiet, dramatic, playful, harmonious, or unexpected.
The goal is not to create one “correct” palette. It is to help you make color choices with more confidence and discover combinations that reflect your own artistic personality.
Mix a useful range of colors from a limited palette
Understand warm and cool color relationships
Create harmonious and high-contrast color schemes
Use value and chroma to make your art more dynamic
Build color confidence through repeated creative play
The creative journey
Start with the basics. Then make them your own.
The lessons build naturally from foundational ideas into more expressive color exploration, without making the process feel overwhelming.
1
Build the Foundation
Swatch your paints and explore value, temperature, and the modern color wheel.
2
Explore Relationships
Work with analogous, complementary, split complementary, triadic, and monochromatic schemes.
3
Add Contrast
Use value, color contrast, and chroma to create stronger focal points and more visual interest.
4
Find Your Favorites
Experiment through prompts and art journal pages as your personal color preferences begin to emerge.
Art journal flip through
See color theory come to life on the page
Take a look through some of my own responses to the color exercises and prompts inside the course. Your journal does not need to look like mine—the lessons are designed to help you discover your own combinations and creative direction.
A closer look
Swatches become creative possibilities
Your experiments become a visual library of palettes, contrasts, paint mixtures, and ideas you can return to in future art journal and mixed media projects.
Color Relationships
See how colors shift, support, and energize one another.
Color Schemes
Turn familiar color-theory structures into expressive painted pages.
Color Contrast
Explore what makes one color stand out and another quietly recede.
Chroma & Neutrals
Create sophisticated variations without losing the personality of your palette.
Creative Play
Apply what you learn without needing to make a polished or perfect finished piece.
Inside the course
A guided exploration of the building blocks of color
The course combines clear demonstrations with practical exercises and creative art projects, so you can understand each concept and immediately put it to use.
Color Foundations
Swatching, value, temperature, paint mixing, and building modern color wheels.
Color Schemes
Analogous, complementary, split complementary, triadic, and monochromatic color relationships.
Contrast & Chroma
Value contrast, color contrast, intensity, muted colors, and visual interest.
Creative Application
Art projects, painted journal pages, color prompts, and discovering your signature palette.
Keep exploring
30 Days of Color Prompts
Once you understand the foundations, the course gives you a collection of color prompts to help you keep experimenting in your sketchbook or art journal.
Use them in order, pull one whenever you need an idea, or revisit a favorite prompt with an entirely different palette. They are designed to keep color exploration playful rather than precious.
Create on your schedule
A relaxed, self-paced course you can revisit anytime
Move through the lessons at your own pace and return whenever you want a refresher, a new palette idea, or an excuse to spend some time playing with paint.
Unlimited Access
Revisit the lessons and demonstrations whenever inspiration strikes.
Work at Your Pace
Pause, replay, skip around, and fit the course into your own creative schedule.
All Experience Levels
Clear enough for beginners and refreshing for experienced artists who want new color ideas.
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Build a practical understanding of color theory, experiment with paint, fill your journal with creative color studies, and discover combinations that feel uniquely yours.
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