Commanding Color with Sue Archer
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Commanding Color with Sue Archer

Learn the concepts Sue Archer NWS AWS TWSA employs to realize the bright, clean colors and strong light that define her work. Sue breaks down her analytical painting process and explains the tools she uses with a series of lessons on pigment quality, design principals, and color theory. You’ll learn to control value and contrast, harness the powerful white of your paper, design negative space, and energize your subjects with complementary colors. The lessons combine clearly illustrated theory with live demonstrations and practical examples from Sue’s personal gallery. Sue reinforces every concept as she works through a large wet into wet painting of a pineapple. You’ll master your palette and paint with confidence in Commanding Color with Sue Archer.
04m 06s
2. Pigment Quality
01m 25s
3. Color Temperature
04m 02s
5. Assessing Value
06m 33s
6. Form, Color and Value
06m 33s
7. Warm to Cool Transitions
03m 58s
9. Merger of Linkage
05m 00s
10. Simultaneous Contrast
06m 02s
11. Designing with White Paper
06m 25s
12. Colorful Grays
02m 19s
13. Colorful Grays: The Triad
03m 29s
14. Transparent Darks
00m 48s
16. Research Material
02m 07s
18. Value Studies
02m 30s
20. Warms in the Leaves
08m 30s
21. Cool Wash on Leaves
01m 28s
22. Discussing Darks
01m 12s
24. Assessing Texture
05m 30s
25. Curling Leaves
02m 31s
26. Purple Transition
10m 55s
27. Negative Painting
02m 11s
29. Completing Mid-values
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About The Artist:
Sue Archer

Sue Archer became involved with watercolors in 1980 after a 15 year career in Physical Education and coaching. When she moved to Florida in 1979, she had the time and opportunity to take up watercolor painting as a hobby. The hobby has now become a new full time career. Archer enjoys meeting the people buying her work, so instead of showing through galleries, she sells her original watercolors at outdoor juried shows in Florida. She also teaches painting privately, is a mentor to Women of Watercolor, spends 6 weeks a year teaching watercolor workshops and juries Florida and national shows. Archer's award-winning paintings are exhibited in national, regional, and state competitions and hang in numerous corporate and private collections throughout...
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