Step-by-Step Painting Projects

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(Cool) Analogous Dolphin

An analogous color scheme is a great place to start if you’re just learning to paint and explore color. It features colors that sit near each other on the color wheel, such as red, orange, and yellow, or blue, violet, and green.

In this project, I’ve chosen to use cool analogous colors: green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet, and violet. Let’s focus on pushing the values of those colors. This means featuring a full range of values, from very light (white or almost white) to dark.

Here you can see my color palette. I’ve included not only the main hues, but also the full range of values for ...

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