Urban Sketching Handbook Working with Color

Shari Blaukopf is a Montreal-based workshop instructor, watercolor painter and sketch blogger who loves to travel and share her love of sketching. She’s the author of The Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with Color, and you can find her many online sketching courses at learn.shariblaukopf.com. She’s been part of the Urban Sketchers community since 2012 and has given many watercolor workshops both on her own and internationally through the Urban Sketchers Workshop Program. Her watercolors are in corporate, government and private collections in North America and abroad, and she’s a signature member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour. You can follow her sketches on her blog at shariblaukopf.com or on Instagram @sharisketcher.

Catch the color of a locale ... Offers practical color advice and essential techniques for on-site sketchers.

• Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with ColorAuthor: Shari Blaukopf  Keys Key I — BasicsToolsBrushes, pens, pencils, ink, palette, paper, paintsTerms Vocabulary of color: value, hue, saturation, complementary, analogous, triadIllustration: color wheel  Key II — Pigments and Color mixingAn urban sketchers paletteChoosing colorsColor mixingUnderstanding your pigments: Transparency and opacity  Key III — Color and ValueThe importance of whiteThe power of darksHigh key sketchesLow key sketchesAtmospheric Perspective  Key IV  — Limited Color PalettesMonochrome (Practice using only one color)Triads (Limit yourself to the primaries)Black plus one color (Choose a dark pigment and add an accent color)Pure color  Key V — Color SchemesComplementaryAnalogousSplit ComplementaryUnity through color  Key VI — Neutral ColorMixing greysMixing browns  Galleries  Gallery I — Mood and atmosphereGallery II  — Expressive colorGallery III — Light and shadowGallery IV — Using a variety of media