Introduction to colors and what they mean to a painting, including their importance in rendering a good painting as opposed to a mediocre painting. Tips and Techniques regarding color.

In playing with colors we worked with red, white and blue to create clouds. This is my cloud color swatch and a painted cloud:

Another exercise in painting colors was to paint leaves as well as a tree trunk. For my first image I also used various colors for the ground, mountains, sky and clouds.

I also wanted to use the tree in a less defined painting with various colors: