Warm and Cool Colors

This weekend I taught a class on color at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. I painted a couple demonstrations from life and made a few simple charts for students on warm and cool colors.

Breaking down color into it's most basic elements helps the artist to determine warm verses cool colors.

I broke down a simple painting in a very basic warm and cool abstraction.

Then I show the example of how the warm colors help to understand the light key of a sunny day.