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PLEASE NOTE: We will be studying color and it's relative interactivity.

THERE IS NO HARD AND FAST RULE FOR THIS, unfortunately! As with ANYTHING, you will learn through trial and error and PAINT WHAT YOU SEE, NOT WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE TRUE!!!!

When looking to present DYNAMISM in an object you will be looking for where things vary in tone, value, color, texture, and temperature. Ex: If things present as ORANGE, you must look for where things are NOT "orange". There are many, many more links than I have included! Below are a few for review:

Very short intro to color theory! NOTE: She is discussing BOTH additive (light based!!) and subtractive (opaque!) color theory models! Still good info: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=059-0wrJpAU 

http://www.ehow.com/video_4991162_understand-color-theory-pigments.html 
(definition)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rU2Juual18 
(more color theory, from a landscape painter, but the exact same principles used with the figure)

I am also posting helpful links for painting flesh tones in multiple different media. Please take the time to read through and watch each link. As most of you have not painted figures from life, you will notice that working with living subjects is a tricky art.

PLEASE NOTE: There are MANY, MANY means of putting all of these paints on your painting surface. These are simply a few methods for doing so in a time-fuctional way for our course (fat-over-lean for opaque painting, blocking, underpainting, etc). As we are working almost exclusively in opaque paints will NOT be doing underdrawings (with a few noted exceptions) in this class, even if you began this way on your first painting.

OIL:
Basic combinations-- 
http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=301471
http://painting.about.com/od/figuresportraits/qt/tips_fig6.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1_w2RGtzng 
(decent video, good resolution)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tdmTDpIkpk 
(toning canvas to start. she uses CRAZY amounts of colors! nice to play with, unnecessary to have. you can mix these! She DOES talk about proportions and translation though! IMPORTANT)

ACRYLIC:
http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-605030.html 
(good forum for discussion)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XHT8ld4d2U 
(basic mixing, do NOT mix on skin/ surface, but good to see what he is observing!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbNSXb5c4_k 
(watch more than listen to this one)

WATERCOLOR:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0n01PDGmxA
(trying to sell you their paint, but it is a good palette for making flesh tones)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D42PpQZOyvQ 
(more helpful for brush handling and material than anything else. I personally tend to work with a much drier brush for these paintings)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG6j-Hd93w8 
(rather ridiculous intro, but helpful, even if it is missing the beginning washes)

I believe this covers media being used by everyone in the class. If this I am missing anything, let me know and I will update this list! PLAY AROUND! Have fun!