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Color is such a vast and vari­able ele­ment that it can be dif­fi­cult to cover it fully in any one post. It can also be a lit­tle over­whelm­ing when try­ing to imple­ment it into your designs. Below are some sam­ple color palettes, taken from clas­sic color the­ory based combinations. The color wheel is one of the first places I turn for color inspi­ra­tion and guid­ance when choos­ing a color scheme. Color charts and pre-made palettes are nice, but the color wheel is sim­ple and easy to under­stand and use.

Explore how color affects emotions, appetite, vision, design, art, business, marketing, and trends. Learn about color theories in art, nature, science and psychology.

How the People Became Color Blind; conversation starter for discussions about racism, respecting differences, etc.

African sculptor El Anatsui uses found materials like bright-colored bottle caps and golden bands from discarded liquor bottles to weave rich tapestries.

Resource for Pop Art Project: altering photos with color

This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more. We hope that drawing tutorials and techniques in this post will be a great help to you.

Some online art games: picassohead, destination modern art etc.

Interactive companion site for van Gogh exhibition at MoMA.

One-point perspective lesson includes art history examples.