Colour Bootcamp I Primary Palettes

with artist & tutor Lewis Mackenzie Fridays 10 am - 12.30pm

Starts Sep 26

320 British pounds

Great King Street

Available spots

Service Description

Dates: September 26th to 21st November 2025, no class 17th October This set of three colour mixing courses correspond with the later portrait class in the afternoon, both classes can be taken to support each other, or the classes can be taken independently of each other. 'Colour' only exists in it's relationship to other surrounding and juxtaposing colour....now let's take a moment to reflect on that!... For beginner artists, one of the most challenging aspects of painting is colour. Colour is incredibly important in painting, not just because accurate colour enhances the realism of a painting, but because colour plays such a fundamental role in expressing emotion and sentiment. Understanding how your palette works and how to mix colours to achieve the effects you want is a foundational skill in painting and this class aims to provide students with a firm grounding in that skill. This 8-week class will: - Introduce students to the Munsell Colour system for analysing and understanding colour - Explain concepts such as colour relativity, complementarity and colour temperature; - Introduce strategies to help students to match the colours they see in nature accurately - Explore a range of different primary colour palettes, including a simple primary palette and an earth primary palette (term I), a split primary palette (term II) and a secondary palette (term III) The class will include on screen presentations and practical demonstrations, and students will develop their understanding through a series of exercises, including colour mixing and matching exercises, colour charts of different palettes and simple still life paintings from photographs. Materials List Coming Soon

Upcoming Sessions

Cancellation Policy

We will provide a 50% refund if you give written advance notice up to 30 days before the course start date. 0% refund 30 days before a course starts. Please note there is an administration fee of £5 payable in respect of such refunds to cover payment processing fees. You will need to inform a member of administration staff in writing by emailing EDS at info@edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk. Additionally, if you withdraw for any reason after the course has started you will not be entitled to a refund. We are a small business and we depend on every booking to ensure that classes can go ahead. If a tutor has to withdraw from teaching the scheduled course for any reason (medical/personal/professional) before the start of a scheduled course, during a scheduled course, if the course is 8 weeks long or scheduled as x3 terms of 8 weeks long each, The Edinburgh Drawing School will find a replacement tutor for the course designed by that tutor for The Edinburgh Drawing School. The course content will be the same as the originally booked course. A student will not be entitled to a refund should the school have no option but to find a replacement tutor. If a tutor leaves and starts work elsewhere, and a student prefers to take classes with them personally at the tutor's new workplace, that is at the discretion of the student and no refund is entitled to them or will be given. If a student is unable to attend a class due to medical/personal/professional reasons, then EDS must be informed immediately so that the tutor can be notified. If you are missing a class because you suspect that you have developed Covid-19, please let us know immediately so that we can alert fellow student and tutors. Non-attendance of classes/workshops does not automatically mean a refund, however EDS will assess the circumstance If a tutor cannot teach a class due to illness, the scheduled class will be covered by another tutor or the class will be postponed and rescheduled for the following week at the same time on the same day of the week. Make up classes are scheduled during the half term week, or in the week following the end of term. The Edinburgh Drawing School runs 8 week terms of scheduled classes, 9 weeks if including the half term and then 10 weeks to include a week at the end of term for any necessary make up classes. Thus, the business always completes it's contractual obligations of 8 scheduled classes to booked students. If a student cannot attend a make up class, no refund is due.