We improve our colour recognition skills and learn to use colour more effectively

We look at the palettes of over 100 great paintings in detail. This leads us to a deeper understanding of composition and colour properties. (Colour properties are the ways in hich colour can create perspective, afterimages, shadows, reflections and many more.)

Your visual accuity in all areas of your life will improve

You will be abe to analyse any painting by following the process we learn. You can create exciting colour schemes for your work.

We learn to mix absolutely accurately, extending our palettes and saving money

Many amateur (and some professional) artists struggle with colour mixing. They deal with it by keeping to the same palette or work in pen and wash! They buy expensive ready mixed paints.

The Orchard Arts Colour Mixing System will show you how to recognise over one million colours and show you how to mix them absolutely accurately every time. You will create your own Personal Colour Chart. Using oil paints to make your Colour Charts will give you the widest range of hues, tints and shades to choose from.

We will gain a much deeper insight into the meanings of great paintings

Our Great Painters were always ahead of their time and changed social and artistic conventions with their ideas. They devised unique techniques to paint their new ideas.You will discover how to relate advances in painting to the emeregence of art movements. Even paintings that appear quite conventional hold Colour Secrets. Understanding their struggles means understanding the Great Painter. Examining these Great paintings in such great detail will give us a much deeper insight into their meanings than relying on a biography or art history.

Your painting goals will be clearer

I offer a comprfehensive approach to analysis which guarantees lots of surprises! Even the most obscure Great Paintings will give you increased involvement and enjoyment. As you move through the course, because of your accumulating knowledge, you will find your critical analysis of paintings is sharpened; including your own! You should find that your painting goals are much clearer as a result.