Colour Play in Art

Colour Play in Art is online sharing of my daily observations of colour in my environment as well as the experiments and applications of colour in my creative process as a visual artist. Multiple weekly videos document my ongoing daily practice playing with various aspects of colour: hue; value/tone; temperature; saturation; colour combinations (colour schemes); dominance. During 2025 I’ll be exploring various ways to relate colour to reality, imagination, sound, sensations, thoughts and emotions.

Recorded demos and daily practice sessions will be available to participating artists each week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Monday videos might be focused on hue, colour scheme or dominance.  Wednesday videos might be focused on value/tone or temperature,  Friday videos might be focused on saturation or neutrals.  Artists who want to focus on colour temperature might choose to view only the Wednesday videos and try the experiments and techniques I share in those videos.  A calendar of topics for the month will be posted each month.

Colour Play in Art 2025 will run from March 1, 2025 through March 1, 2026. You may join at any time.  You may also take a break, cancel and rejoin at any time.  There are Three ways to participate.  All three options include printable pdf files of templates and reference tools as well as several basic lessons and videos on contour drawing, the Colour Scheme Game, and the basic Pulling the Puddle technique.

Option One:  Colour Play in Art with full access to archived videos 

     Includes the three weekly videos, posted Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

     Includes a monthly live zoom session to share questions, answers, experiments, ideas, etc.

     Includes access to all of the previously posted videos (archive videos) from March 1, 2025 onward.

     Includes occasional pop-up sessions when I find myself in the right place at the right time.

          Colour Play in Art with Archived Videos: 

               One payment $195 until April 15th. This is payment in full for access until March 1, 2026 instead of $20/month

                     or

                Monthly - $20/month. You may cancel and rejoin whenever you wish.

Option Two:  Colour Play in Art without access to archived videos. 

      Includes only the current week’s Monday, Wednesday and Friday videos.  When the new week's video are posted, the previous weeks videos are  archived.  You have access to those videos with both Option One and Option Three.

         Colour Play without Archived Videos: 

                Monthly - $10/month. You may cancel and rejoin whenever you wish.

                Starving artist:  $7/month. You may cancel and rejoin whenever you wish.

 Option Three:  Colour Play in Art with archived videos as a member of The Artist’s Journey 

      Members of The Artist’s Journey community have access to everything in Option One.  In addition, they have access to all the other online courses on my website, weekly live zoom sessions of Art Book Club - Sketchbook Story Time, occasional live critiques, our community FORUM where we share our images, questions, comments, ideas, favorite artists we discover along our separate journeys and an occasional CHALLENGE.

         The Artist’s Journey: 

              Monthly - $25/month. You may cancel and rejoin whenever you wish.

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I’ve chosen to offer this unusual format of an online workshop/course so that I can continue to share what I've learned in the past and what I’m currently learning and creating as a full-time artist.  Both The Artist’s Journey community and Colour Play in Art is intended to be a sharing between artists, regardless of the level at which one finds oneself.  I think of this as a group of artists for which I am the facilitator rather than the teacher.  We all have a great deal to learn from one another.  Encouragement and support nurtures our inner artists.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with your questions.

Chris Carter