Please note that this course is divided into sections, modules, lessons, and parts. My Basic Color Theory course is equivalent to a second-year 200-level college semester course. The sections break the entire course into smaller segments of basic color theory, covering different aspects of the course.

Section 1 covers an overview of what color is and the first two exercises, the “Six Primary Color Biased Twelve-Step Color Wheel” and “The Six Primaries Inherent Value Scales.”

Section 2 concentrates on red, green, and their complementary color mixtures. You will create exercise 3, “Creating and Painting Red and Green’s Complimentary Color Strings, Plus the Tints, Shades, and Greyed Strings.” This exercise is followed up with the first still-life painting of the course using red, green, and the mixtures from exercise 3.

Section 3 concentrates on blue, orange, and their complementary color mixtures. You will create exercise 4, “Creating and Painting Blue and Orange’s Complimentary Color Strings, Plus the Tints, Shades, and Greyed Strings.” This exercise is followed up with the second still-life painting of the course using blue, orange, and the mixtures from exercise 4.

Section 4 concentrates on yellow, purple, and their complementary color mixtures. You will create exercise 5, “Creating and Painting Yellow and Purple’s Complimentary Color Strings, Plus the Tints, Shades, and Greyed Strings.” This exercise is followed up with the third still life painting of the course using yellow, purple, and the mixtures from exercise 5.

Section 5 of this course is where you will paint one final still-life painting, a bit more challenging than the previous three, using all the colors and mixtures from this course.

The modules in this course are like chapters in a textbook containing the complete instruction for one of the exercises or still-life paintings in this course. You do not need to sit down and complete an entire module in one sitting.

The lessons in this course contain the steps needed to complete the modules. All of the lessons are designed to be completed in one sitting. Many of the lessons are broken up into video parts, first due to the file size limitation of this platform but mainly to break the lesson up into bite-size, easily consumable pieces.