When:
Wednesday 2nd of May at 1PM Pacific, 4PM Eastern, 9PM UK time.
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What is the Chroma Curve?
If you’re painting an object and you want it to look real, you need to get the values right. Everyone knows that.
But what most people don’t know is that just as there’s a progression from light to dark in values, there’s a progression in chroma too.
The very lightest parts of an object, where the light source is reflected, are generally lower chroma (assuming daylight and no strongly coloured light source).
The chroma is then highest in the largest light area. In the half tone as the value drops, the chroma is a little lower, and it’s lowest in the shadow. The progression of low to high to low chroma is a curve. How much it changes depends mostly on the chroma of the local colour.
If you know the local colour of something, and you know this curve, it can really help you paint realistic light and shadow.
What I’ll be showing you
In this webinar, I’m going to be demonstrating the chroma curve on a few spheres of different local colours, both high and low chroma; light, medium and dark locals.
By pinning down the colours of the light areas and shadows using a simple isolator and the Munsell book, I’ll show you what the chroma curve looks like. I’ll paint the spheres to demonstrate how knowing the chroma curve can help you paint more realistically and create believable lights and shadows.
And I’ll bust a couple of colour myths along the way 🙂
I’ll also cover what tube paints I’m using to get the colours I need.
How long will it be?
The webinar will be about an hour long, and you’ll be able to ask questions live, as we go along. At the end, I’ll have a little Q&A session so we can go over what we covered and I’ll answer any other questions that come up then.
Who is this for?
If you paint realistically and you want to understand how colour changes from light to shadow, this is for you. If you’re nearer the beginning of your learning journey, it will hopefully help you avoid some common errors and save you a lot of time and frustration.
If you’re a bit further along, it may make some of the more confusing aspects of light and shadow clearer.
When is it?
Wednesday 2nd of May at 1PM Pacific, 4PM Eastern, 9PM UK time.
There will be a recording that I’ll email out to people who register, so if you can’t make it, just register anyway and you’ll get a link to the replay.
Register for the webinar here.
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See you soon!
Paul