I am so excited to take you on a journey into exploring colour! 

This course is all about understanding how colour works through basic colour theory, observing colour in the world around you and becoming confident using colour in your sketchbook and finished pieces of art.

The course is suitable for beginners (or those wanting to try out coloured materials for the first time) and contains six separate art tutorials on exploring colour in your sketchbooks taught by myself - Susan Yeates, plus additional video lessons and tips.

This course is playful, informative, inspiring, will show you some new sketching techniques, boost your creativity and fill your sketchbook (or sheets of paper) with plenty of colour!

It will guide you through a basic understanding of colour theory before then providing a series of tutorials and exercises in your sketchbook to put into practice your new knowledge.

The tutorials and exercises demonstrate how we can observe colour in the world around us, they explore and explain watercolour paints (great for beginners to this medium!), invite you to create your own colour wheel and look at colours in photographs in more detail. All six of the colour tutorials have video lessons.

Colour plays such an important part in how we express ourselves through art and the use of the right colours in combination can really lift a piece and give it additional levels of meaning. 

For some, an understanding of what colours to use together comes easy but for many this is information we need to learn to really express what we mean through our paintings and drawings successfully. It can be tricky to know what colours to use when and how to mix colours to get exactly what you want. It is so helpful to understand how to mix colours and create the result you want - especially when you only have a limited palette of paints for example. 

When you understand how colour works and how to mix colours properly you give yourself a full rainbow to play with! 

Colour is so fun and so vibrant and I want to share my love for playing with colour here in this short online course. Each exercise is designed to build upon the last and show you a new way to understand and play with colour. 

This course is perfect for:

This online course contains a number of video tutorials with Susan. It begins with explaining colour theory and then works through a number of creative exercises (tutorials) to help you to understand and explore colour a little more deeply. 

As soon as you enrol you gain instant access to the the entire course in the course portal.

The course portal will contain all the modules as well as a way to make comments and upload your colourful work. After you compete the course you still have access to the full course for as long as you need it - so you can return to it again and again whenever you want.

Note: Many of the tutorials in this course were initially delivered as part of my Inspire Membership.

For this course you will need a selection of basic art materials. These include:

Join me for the Inspire Creative Membership. Inspire is a monthly membership and inclusive community for creatives looking to build a consistent sketching practice, no matter how busy life gets.